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Blog: Materials
The dyed threads change color when they detect a variety of gases.
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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Answering Your Questions: Can Collaborative Robots Help Manufacturers Looking to Scale Their Business?
Cobots can help manufacturers automate tasks both known or unknown, says engineer Israel Nunez.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The MIT system can monitor the behavior of electronic devices within a building, a factory – and even a 270-foot Coast Guard cutter.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Answering Your Questions: When to Use Collaborative Robots in Manufacturing
A reader asks: What types of considerations need to be made before you go in on collaborative robots?
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The sensor supports new ideas in food-quality control, environmental monitoring, and more.
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
It took two and a half years, 60 prototypes, and even some of his children’s craft foam, but Curtis Ray turned his idea into invention.
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Blog: Energy
A new technology may lead to a more mainstream use of algal biofuels.
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Blog: Test & Measurement
See which three products won our 2018 Readers' Choice contest.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Blog: Motion Control
The wearable is fireproof, thanks to a carbon aerogel nanocomposite material.
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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Answering Your Questions: What Areas of Study Are Desirable for the Autonomous Industry?
With self-driving vehicles poised to take the road, how can today’s engineers prepare themselves to support an autonomous future?
Blog: Transportation
Tesla uses batteries to store energy underneath the car seats. What if we could store energy everywhere on the vehicle?
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Graphene may play a greater role in tomorrow electronics, thanks to an achievement from the Technical University of Denmark.
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Blog: Imaging
Answering Your Questions: Are There Regulations for Machine Learning in Vehicles?
How do you regulate a system that, in effect, is learning as it goes?
Blog: Motion Control
Even a shape-morphing plane is possible, says Harvard's Ehsan Hajiesmaili.
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Blog: Materials
A new material development from USC brings us a step closer to self-healing sneakers.
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Blog: Materials
By adding nanopores to nickel, James Pikul and his team created a kind of "metallic wood."
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Blog: Test & Measurement
A Failure Analysis may help find problems during product development, but what role should top management play in an FMEA?
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Blog: Test & Measurement
Professor Jordan Raney spoke with Tech Briefs about what’s possible when you can embody 3D-printed objects with logic.
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Blog: Communications
David Barzilai from Karamba Security tells Tech Briefs what threats to the connected car concern him the most.
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Blog: Test & Measurement
From CES 2019: Tech Briefs looks at three standout health-monitoring products.
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Blog: Software
From CES 2019: For famine relief, the World Bank is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Professor Sherry Towfighian spoke with Tech Briefs about how a new MEMS design will improve our cell phones and power lines.
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Blog: Transportation
Irdeto's Stacy Janes tells Tech Briefs if he feels safe driving today's connected cars.
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Blog: Energy
A reader asks: How does an “industrial-grade” lithium-ion battery stack up to the one in your phone?
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Blog: Automotive
In 2015, Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller demonstrated a hack of the Jeep Cherokee. Valasek tells Tech Briefs what has changed since then.
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Blog: Energy
Don’t hold your breath, says Jeff Crystal from Voltaic Systems.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
An FMEA provides a step-by-step way of identifying product failures. Carl Carlson explains just how long the process takes.
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Blog: Test & Measurement
InSight project manager Tom Hoffman spoke with Tech Briefs about the importance of digging deep in our knowledge of Mars.
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