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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This technology provides rapid results, improving hospital workflow and patient care.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The ultra-light robotic insect can be folded or crushed, yet continues to move.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This approach could be used to cost-effectively make soft robots and wearable technologies.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The gripper’s soft, sensitive fingers could enable robots to help with tying knots, wire shaping, or surgical suturing.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Inspired by a coral polyp, this plastic mini robot moves by magnetism and light.
Briefs: Motion Control
Complex locomotion techniques enable the rover to climb hills covered with soft granular material.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This technology can help robots walk up to 40 percent faster on uneven terrain such as pebbles and wood chips.
Briefs: Motion Control
A new method manufactures complex shapeshifters for soft robots and biomedical implants.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This technology shows potential for the detection of subtle human motions and the real-time monitoring of body postures for healthcare applications.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
An ultrafast image sensor with a built-in neural network can be trained to recognize certain objects.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This technique offers enhanced resolution and improved system reliability for mapping and obstacle recognition and navigation for vehicles.
Briefs: Imaging
Multiple commercial applications include defense, search and rescue, and disaster relief.
Briefs: Wearables
The sensor has applications in fields such as robotics, healthcare, and security.
Briefs: Imaging
A new low-cost imaging system could make it easier to track mosquito species that carry disease, enabling a more timely and targeted response.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Sensors in the hand can actually detect forces being transmitted through the thickness of the robot.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The device provides quick results and gives healthcare workers more time to treat patients in hospitals and other settings.
Briefs: AR/AI
An automated system cuts the energy required for training and running neural networks.
Briefs: Unmanned Systems
A fleet of “roboats” could transport people, collect trash, and self-assemble into floating structures.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Combined muscles and sensors made from soft materials allow for adaptable robots.
Briefs: Materials
This type of energy source could be the basis for robots that seek out and “eat” metal, breaking down its chemical bonds for energy like humans do with food.
Briefs: Imaging
By observing humans, robots learn to perform complex tasks such as setting a table.
Briefs: Motion Control
An inexpensive gyroscope could help drones and autonomous cars stay on track without a GPS signal.
Briefs: Aerospace
This instrument has applications in medical equipment, robotics, and satellites.
Briefs: Aerospace
The technique could be used to improve navigation for robots, drones, or pedestrians.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The domino effect is used to design deployable systems that expand quickly with a small push and are stable and locked into place after deployment.
Briefs: Transportation
This technology could help control driverless cars and automated warehouses.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Square trusses replace round for enhanced strength and robotics compatibility.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Robot-assisted surgery has advanced dramatically over the past decade in almost every surgical sub-specialty. Robot-assisted surgery is usually performed using surgical robot systems that involve...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These materials can be used in soft robotics, self-healing electronics, and medical devices.
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