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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This technology enables robots, electronic devices, and prosthetic devices to feel pain through sense of touch.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
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: Robotics, Automation & Control
MIT engineers are envisioning robots more like home helpers.
Briefs: Software
This technology can work with multiple wavelengths of light simultaneously.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Fully integrated flexible electronics made of magnetic sensors and organic circuits open the path towards the development of electronic skin.
Briefs: Aerospace
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: Aerospace
Tiny aircraft that weigh as much as a fruit fly could serve as Martian atmospheric probes.
Briefs: Transportation
This method could impact optical technologies such as smartphone cameras, biosensors, or autonomous vision for robots and self-driving cars.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This capability will optimize performance of the vehicle through different phases of flight.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
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: Wearables
This technique can be used by people who are paralyzed or have neurodegenerative diseases.
Briefs: Materials
This material could be used for artificial muscles that power bio-inspired robots.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Aerogels based on cellulose nanofibers can effectively shield electromagnetic radiation over a wide frequency range.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This process could lead to tiny, self-powered devices for environmental, industrial, or medical monitoring.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Designed to assist in robotic surgeries, biomedical devices can be printed in and on the human body.
Briefs: Aerospace
The robots could fly silently for covert operations and stay steady through turbulence.
Briefs: Materials
Features include unusual color changes and high touch sensitivity.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
The “E-dermis” will enable amputees to perceive through prosthetic fingertips.
Briefs: Medical
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: Wearables
This approach could be used to cost-effectively make soft robots and wearable technologies.
Briefs: Motion Control
The gripper’s soft, sensitive fingers could enable robots to help with tying knots, wire shaping, or surgical suturing.
Briefs: Unmanned Systems
Inspired by a coral polyp, this plastic mini robot moves by magnetism and light.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Complex locomotion techniques enable the rover to climb hills covered with soft granular material.
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