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Briefs: Aerospace
Wire-connected drones may complement or replace the fixed base stations of cellular communications networks.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This robotic finger has a highly precise sense of touch over a complex, multi-curved surface.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The robot’s extendable appendage can wind through tight spaces and then lift heavy loads.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This method enables users to control their robotic fingers precisely enough to gently land on fragile surfaces.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The soft, wearable device simulates the sense of touch and has wide potential in medical and industrial applications.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Kirigami balloons could be used in shape-changing actuators for soft robots, minimally invasive surgical devices, and macro structures for space exploration.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This system can be used for long-range or high-payload deliveries as well as search and rescue.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
A low-frequency antenna with enhanced bandwidth will enable robust networking among compact, mobile robots.
Briefs: Motion Control
This detector could help robots, drones, and self-driving cars avoid collisions.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
These hands, with a large grasping force, enable safer human-robot interactions.
Briefs: Motion Control
Applications include retractable covers and awnings, camera booms, and spacecraft and astronaut positioning.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The robot blocks jump, spin, flip, and identify each other.
Briefs: Energy
Adaptable automation reduces manufacturing time and costs.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This technology enables robots, electronic devices, and prosthetic devices to feel pain through sense of touch.
Briefs: Imaging
Future robots could be taught how to outperform humans.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The Tentacle Bot can grip, move, and manipulate a wide range of objects.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This form of thermal management can help enable untethered, high-powered robots to operate for long periods of time without overheating.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
See how tantalum disulfide is supporting new kinds of optics, and potentially new kinds of application for VR and self-driving cars.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
MIT engineers are envisioning robots more like home helpers.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This technology can work with multiple wavelengths of light simultaneously.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Fully integrated flexible electronics made of magnetic sensors and organic circuits open the path towards the development of electronic skin.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
This system has a capacity of more than 1,500 times the volume of a typical testing facility.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The learning approach allows swarms of unmanned vehicles to optimally accomplish their mission while minimizing performance uncertainty.
Briefs: Imaging
Tiny aircraft that weigh as much as a fruit fly could serve as Martian atmospheric probes.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This method could impact optical technologies such as smartphone cameras, biosensors, or autonomous vision for robots and self-driving cars.
Briefs: Aerospace
This capability will optimize performance of the vehicle through different phases of flight.
Briefs: Medical
A soft hydrogel, driven by an oscillatory chemical reaction, produces an autonomous integrated pump for microfluidic applications.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This mini robot improves precision and control of teleoperated surgical procedures.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This technique can be used by people who are paralyzed or have neurodegenerative diseases.
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