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INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Building on her experience volunteering at retirement homes, Carnegie Mellon researcher Jasmine Li decided to focus her research on assistive robotics that help people with everyday tasks....
INSIDER: Materials
The phrase ‘liquid metal’ may bring to mind something hazardous, like mercury or molten steel. But in the Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fiber Devices (FIMAP) in EPFL’s School of...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
When ChatGPT or Gemini give what seems to be an expert response to your burning questions, you may not realize how much information it relies on to give that reply. Like...
Special Reports: Motion Control
Robotics & Motion Control - June 2025
Once a staple of science fiction, humanoid robots are rapidly becoming a reality. Our executive panel weighs in. Get their insights in this compendium of articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and...INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Stronger cell phone signals, more accurate sensors, and cleaner energy may be achieved by adding a simple step to the industrial fabrication process of...
Special Reports: Defense
Space Technology - May 2025
Seven space start‐ups you should know…how to machine complex parts for space flight…advanced sensors monitor motion on Martian moon rover. Read these stories and more in this compendium of articles from the...INSIDER: Unmanned Systems
From mountain goats that run up near-vertical rock faces to armadillos that roll into a protective ball, animals have evolved to adapt effortlessly to changes in their environment....
INSIDER: Medical
Researchers at the German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen, have developed a novel training protocol for brain-computer interfaces in a...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
In nature, flying animals sense coming changes in their surroundings, including the onset of sudden turbulence, and quickly adjust to stay safe. Engineers who design aircraft...
INSIDER: Transportation
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are attempting to make a motion sensor so precise it could minimize the nation’s reliance on global positioning satellites. Until recently, such a sensor — a...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
A new algorithm may make robots safer by making them more aware of human inattentiveness.
INSIDER: AR/AI
Communities could reduce costs and cut vehicle emissions — all in the name of shortening your trip.
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new system that brings together real-world sensing and virtual reality would make it easier for building maintenance personnel to identify and fix issues in...
INSIDER: Energy
MIT researchers have developed a battery-free, self-powered sensor that can harvest energy from its environment.
INSIDER: Data Acquisition
MIT engineers have developed a robotic replica of the heart’s right ventricle, which mimics the beating and blood-pumping action of live hearts.
INSIDER: Motion Control
Imagine you want to carry a large, heavy box up a flight of stairs. You might spread your fingers and lift the box with both hands, then hold it on top of your forearms and balance...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Someday, when quakes, fires, and floods strike, the first responders might be packs of robotic rescue dogs rushing in to help stranded souls. These battery-powered quadrupeds would use...
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Research reveals that expertly timed lasers shined at an approaching LIDAR system can create a blind spot in front of the vehicle.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Imagine you're in an airplane with two pilots, one human and one computer. Both have their “hands” on the controllers, but they're always looking out for different things. If...
INSIDER: Software
Researchers from UCLA and the United States Army Research Laboratory have laid out a new approach for enhancing artificial intelligence-powered computer vision technologies by...
INSIDER: Motion Control
A self-navigating, cargo-carrying sailboat designed by a team of Rice University engineering students could be a sustaining link for Marines hunkered down on shore during war. The...
INSIDER: Data Acquisition
A new system enables makers to incorporate sensors into gears and other rotational mechanisms with just one pass in a 3D printer.
Briefs: Materials
This system can track the motion of the entire body with a small sensory network.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Research reveals that expertly timed lasers shined at an approaching LIDAR system can create a blind spot in front of the vehicle.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
NASA is developing the next generation of spacesuits for future missions.
INSIDER: Data Acquisition
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University took an all-terrain vehicle on wild rides through tall grass, loose gravel, and mud to gather data about how the ATV...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Robots are good at making identical repetitive movements such as a simple task on an assembly line. But they lack the ability to perceive objects as they move through an environment. A recent...
Question of the Week: Electronics & Computers
Would You Wear a Microgrid?
Our April issue of Tech Briefs highlighted a wearable microgrid that powers electronics by harvesting energy from the wearer’s body. The wearable (shown here) has three components: sweat-powered biofuel cells, motion-powered devices called triboelectric generators, and energy-storing supercapacitors. All parts are...
Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Aerospace & Defense Sensing - April 2022
Designing the connected battlespace of the future...mobile robots that detect and alert soldiers to dangers in real time...'electronic skin' sensors capable of mimicking the dynamic process of human...Top Stories
Blog: Lighting
A Stretchable OLED that Can Maintain Most of Its Luminescence
Blog: Energy
Batteries that Can Withstand the Cold
INSIDER: Energy
Advancing All-Solid-State Batteries
Blog: Power
My Opinion: We Need More Power Soon — Is Nuclear the Answer?
Quiz: Power
Blog: Data Acquisition
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