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Blog: Electronics & Computers
Physicists achieved optical switching of a light signal at attosecond speeds to reach previously unattainable data transfer speeds.
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Blog: Energy
The oxygen-ion battery can be extremely durable, does not require rare elements, and thwarts fire hazards.
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Blog: Green Design & Manufacturing
By avoiding hazardous chemicals, the work points down a path industry could follow to reduce its environmental footprint.
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Blog: Design
A soccer-playing, full-sized humanoid robot — ARTEMIS — with first-of-its-kind technology.
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Blog: Medical
A Caltech-developed new kind of smart bandage aims to treat lingering wounds and help those who have trouble recuperating.
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Blog: Motion Control
Researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated a caterpillar-like soft robot that can move forward, backward, and dip under narrow spaces.
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Blog: Aerospace
A Tech Briefs interview with DART team member Dr. Saverio Cambioni.
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Blog: Design
Engineers and technicians can use their differences to help each other solve technical problems.
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Blog: Motion Control
The all-terrain walking mech’s aim is to give humans the size and strength of giants. It does just that — times 50.
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Blog: Aerospace
The first female pilot and first female commander of a space shuttle, Eileen Collins, shares leadership lessons for women in aerospace.
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Blog: AR/AI
The release of OpenAi's ChatGPT has unleashed a wave of renewed interest in AI. How will this language-based AI affect 3D CAD design and 3D printing?
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Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Untethered soft robots are poised to become even more agile and controlled.
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Blog: Unmanned Systems
The Yonder Deep team installed an entire suite of sensors in its AUV, versatile enough to withstand the frigid Arctic waters as well as the coastal waters of Southern California.
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Blog: Energy
The first study on how purified boron nitride nanotubes remain stable in extreme temperatures in inert environments.
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Blog: Design
A microelectronic fiber with microscopic parameters is capable of analyzing electrolytes and metabolites in sweat.
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Blog: Design
The term artificial intelligence (AI) has become an everyday catch phrase. The way it’s used all over the media, however, is very different from the way I think about it.
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Blog: Medical
A new take on an old design using artificial intelligence has the potential to make life incredibly easier for the visually impaired.
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Blog: Test & Measurement
By placing a metamaterial pattern on the surface of an object, the researchers were able to use sound to steer it in a certain direction without physically touching it.
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Blog: Medical
Researchers have developed a portable sensor made of simple materials to detect heavy metals in sweat, which is easily sampled.
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Blog: Lighting Technology
Light-emitting diode (LED) solid-state lighting technology offers low power consumption and cost, small size, and a long lifespan. Plus, it’s environmentally friendly.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
Instead of disposing of batteries after three years, we could have recyclable batteries that last three times longer.
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A flapping-wing robot that can land autonomously on a horizontal perch using a claw-like mechanism.
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Blog: Design
See 10 AR/VR technologies from CES 2023.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
A counterintuitive way to protect atomically thin electronics: adding vibrations to reduce vibration issues.
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Blog: RF & Microwave Electronics
A study has perhaps solved the wind-turbine issue of causing harm to bats.
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Blog: Aerospace
See Tech Briefs’ top-performing quizzes of 2022.
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Blog: Materials
See Tech Briefs’ most-read stories of 2022.
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Blog: Design
The epsilon iron oxide nanoparticles could be continuously produced through a micrometer-sized powder manufacturing process.
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
The battery was made using sodium-sulphur — a type of molten salt that can be processed from sea water at a low cost.
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