Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Will We Someday 'Draw' Sensors On Our Skin?
A Tech Brief featured in our October issue showcases how University of Missouri researchers are creating pencil-drawn sensors. The engineers demonstrated that the simple combination of pencils and paper could be used to create personal, health-monitoring devices.
Blog: RF & Microwave Electronics
Is the Public Ready for a Level-4 Autonomous Vehicle?
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Researchers Prove Their Elastic Exosuit Eases Back Stress
Question of the Week: Photonics/Optics
Will Flat Fisheye Lenses Play a Greater Role in Medical Imaging and Consumer Electronics?
A recent Tech Briefs TV video demonstrated an achievement from engineers at MIT and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. The teams designed the first completely flat fisheye lens to produce crisp, 180-degree panoramic images. The lenses, according to...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Soft Robots Deliver Medical Treatments
Researchers created a way to send tiny, soft robots into humans. Doctors would use magnetic fields to steer the soft robot inside the body, bringing medications or treatments to places that need...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers Have Developed the World’s Smallest Ultrasound Detector
Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed the world’s smallest ultrasound detector. Based on...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers Devise Efficient, Scalable Process for Fabricating MXene Films That Block Electromagnetic Interference
The proliferation and miniaturization of electronics in devices, wearables, medical implants, and other applications has...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
2D Materials for Extra Thin Computer Chips
For a long time, something important has been regularly neglected in electronics. If you want to make electronic components smaller and smaller, you also need the right insulator materials. This...
INSIDER: Wearables
Medical Robotic Hand? Rubbery Semiconductor Makes It Possible
Researchers at the University of Houston report that they have designed and produced a smart electronic skin and a medical robotic hand capable of assessing vital diagnostic...
Blog: Energy
New Composite Energizes the Electric Vehicle Market
Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Do Software Advancements Make You Feel Safe in an Autonomous Vehicle?
Our lead story today features self-driving car software that prevents accidents by understanding and anticipating safe traffic behaviors.
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Controller Helps Robots Avoid Collisions
MIT startup Realtime Robotics invented a solution that gives robots the ability to quickly adjust their path to avoid objects as they move to a target. The Realtime controller can be connected to...
INSIDER: Motion Control
Precision Landing Without a Pilot
For planned robotic and crewed missions to the Moon and Mars, NASA is developing and testing precise landing and hazard-avoidance technologies. A combination of laser sensors, a camera, a high-speed...
Blog: Motion Control
New Software Keeps Self-Driving Cars on a Safe Path
Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Can Courtesy Be Programmed Into Self-Driving Cars?
During a recent webcast, a Tech Briefs reader raised an interesting question about self-driving cars:
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
NASA's 'VITAL' Ventilator: A Choice Between Licensing and Open-Source
Blog: Transportation
Breakthrough Model Offers Better Look Inside Rechargeable Batteries
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Perovskite and Organic Solar cells Prove Successful in Space
Almost all satellites are powered by solar cells – but solar cells are heavy. While conventional high-performance cells reach up to three watts of electricity per gram,...
INSIDER: Materials
Scientists Use Photons as Threads to Weave Novel Forms of Matter
New research from the University of Southampton has discovered a way to bind two negatively charged electron-like particles which could create opportunities to form novel...
INSIDER: Imaging
Researcher Gets Navy Grant to Develop Flexible, Printed Solar Cells
University of North Texas professor Anupama Kaul straddles the line between electrical engineering and materials science, which puts her in the perfect place to develop...
Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Will 'Biomorphic' Batteries Support a Future of Tiny Robots?
A Tech Briefs TV video highlighted a rechargeable zinc battery from the University of Michigan that integrates into the structure of a robot to provide much more energy. The “biomorphic” battery, according to researchers, could provide 72x more energy for robots.
INSIDER: Energy
Faster, More Efficient Energy Storage From Layered Materials
A team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) developed a novel, integrated approach to track energy-transporting ions within an ultra-thin...
INSIDER: Energy
Improved Battery Life for Wearable Electronic Devices
Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that asymmetric stresses within electrodes used in certain wearable electronic devices provides an important clue as to how to...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Scientists Boost Stability and Efficiency of Next-Gen Solar Tech
Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have created next-generation solar modules with high efficiency and good...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Biomorphic Batteries Could Provide 72 Times More Energy for Robots
Like biological fat reserves store energy in animals, a new rechargeable zinc battery integrates into the structure of a robot to provide much more energy, a team led by...
Blog: Automotive
What's Best for Autonomous Cars: LiDAR vs Radar vs Cameras
Blog: Unmanned Systems
Can We Trust A.I.? Modeling Tool Quantifies How Much a Machine Doesn't Know
Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Are You OK With a Robot Taking Your Vitals?
The "Spot" robot, developed by Boston Dynamics, can measure skin temperature, breathing rate, pulse rate, and blood oxygen saturation in healthy patients, from a distance of 2 meters.
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CES 2021: How COVID-19 Turned the Car into a Personal 'Second Space'
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