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Articles: Test & Measurement
An R&D project indirectly leads to potentially greater power density, EV range, and battery life.
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Articles: Motion Control
Explore manufacturers and products in over 25 motion-design categories.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Learn the differences between bipolar and unipolar motors, their driving methods, and advantages and limitations.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A new generation of long-life electric linear actuators has emerged to give designers more flexibility.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
These common pneumatic circuits can be used alone or as building blocks in larger pneumatics systems.
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Articles: Communications
Learn about widely used communications technologies for motion control.
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Articles: Motion Control
A new COVID test, a "ChromoUpdate," and NASA's brake rotor.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Resolution is an often discussed but seldom understood value in the world of 3D printing and additive manufacturing.
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Articles: Materials
Learn how to reuse more material without recycling.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Battery recycling, NASA's water treatment, and a wireless wearable transmitter.
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Articles: Photonics/Optics
Designers who must sense motor position, speed, or acceleration have a lot of choices, including resolvers, optical encoders, and Hall-effect devices.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
Faster inline CT inspections makes it possible to inspect far greater numbers of circuit boards.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
MEMS sensors have been around for a long time, but requests from the market for new applications are driving upgrades in the technology.
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Articles: Software
See how simulation software is being used to is automate the test process for vehicle rotors.
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Articles: Motion Control
Learn the distinct forms that linear bearings take, and where the bearings are being used today.
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Articles: Green Design & Manufacturing
Head-up displays, health-monitoring sensors from NASA, and a pollen sponge.
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Articles: Materials
Conductive cellulose, composites testing, and a light-emitting tattoo.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
These 6 advancements are leading us to cleaner, faster aircraft.
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Articles: Photonics/Optics
Learn about the benefits of SWIR imaging, from food inspection to surveillance.
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Articles: Transportation
As the vehicle platform size decreases, the pulse power discharge rates of the Energy Storage System (ESS) increase.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
A comparison of passive and active supercapacitor charging methods emphasizes the need for a close inspection on power source and supercapacitor demand.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
A heat source near the optical path can introduce image warping that locally shifts the position of the image content. Learn how to fix the flaw.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
The online Battery and Electrification Summit on June 15 and 16, 2021 offers two days of expert insight, innovation, and emerging applications.
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Articles: Energy
Lithium-metal solid-state batteries can provide a safer, more energy-dense alternative to current technology.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A disruptive manufacturing technology now offers reduced manufacturing costs and improved volumetric energy density in all-solid cells.
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Articles: Transportation
NASA's graphene composites, textile pressure sensors, and a better kind of glass.
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Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
The more complex the vehicle, the greater the need for comprehensive design solutions.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
In North America alone, the gripper market is worth roughly $100 million — and that number is expected to climb up to 5 percent each year.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Pneumatic technologies such as control valves continue to evolve, incorporating sensors, industrial network interfaces, wireless technology, and more.
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