Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Autonomous Boats Automatically Target and Clasp Onto Each Other
A fleet of “roboats” could transport people, collect trash, and self-assemble into floating structures.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
New High-Speed Microscope Can Capture Brain Neuroactivity
A research team has built a super-high-speed microscope.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Low-Cost Imaging System Poised to Provide Automatic Mosquito Tracking
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: Imaging
Unlocking the Gate to the Millisecond CT
A new CT scan method using intense synchrotron radiation produces higher quality images within milliseconds.
Briefs: Imaging
Navigation Measurement Software
This program provides a relative navigation capability for spacecraft, remotely operated terrestrial vehicles, and machine vision.
Briefs: Imaging
Showing Robots How to Complete Complicated Tasks
By observing humans, robots learn to perform complex tasks such as setting a table.
Briefs: Imaging
Process for Producing High-Quality, Lightweight Mirrors
The process provides a cost-effective solution for applications in space-based imaging systems, military reconnaissance, and satellite and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Optically Reconfigurable Charge-Transfer Liquid Crystals
These re-writeable materials have applications in data storage and encryption, energy transducers, and optical display technologies.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Characterizing Richness of Previously Unmapped Terrain and its Impact on Navigation Using 3D Range Sensors
Landers to small bodies such as comets and asteroids can use this program to estimate the terrain richness of the previously unmapped small body.
Briefs: Imaging
Analyzing Wear and Tear of Metal
A new method could enable vehicles and equipment to better withstand high temperatures, loads, and speeds.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Sussex Researchers Combine Lasers, Computers & THz Waves to Build Camera That Sees ‘Unseen’ Details
The nonlinear camera captures high-resolution images of the interior of solid objects using terahertz (THz) radiation.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Bats Inspire Detectors to Help Prevent Oil and Gas Pipe Leaks
Engineers have developed a new scanning technique inspired by the natural world that can detect corroding metals in oil and gas pipelines.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Device Tests Drugs on Tumor Tissue
An inexpensive 3D-printed microfluidics device could be used to personalize cancer treatment.
Briefs: Communications
Electric Nanoscale Device Sees Through Walls
Applications include imaging, sensing, wireless communications, and medical treatments.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Defects Enable High-Performance Infrared Photodetectors
A highly sensitive, CMOS-compatible, broadband photodetector was created by tailoring material defects.
Briefs: Imaging
New Graphene-Based Metasurface Capable of Independent Amplitude and Phase Control of Light
Researchers described a new strategy of designing metamolecules.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Multifunctional Structure Stabilizes and Rotates Satellites
This technology cancels out the vibrations of a satellite by vibrating the solar panels in the opposite direction.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Seeing Around Corners to Detect Object Shapes
Special light sources and sensors see around corners or through gauzy filters, enabling reconstruction of the shapes of unseen objects.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
Streaming Software Speeds Apps
Apps could take up less space on a smartphone and apps could download instantly.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Machine Learning Algorithm Identifies Objects Using Microwaves
Hardware and software tweak microwave patterns to discover the most efficient way to identify objects.
Briefs: Materials
Cryogenic Near-Field Optical Microscope Images Dynamics of Graphene
This imaging technique could impact optical communications and signal processing.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Terahertz Imaging System Uses Small, Efficient Lasers
The lasers are small and efficient enough to fit on a microchip.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Model Predicts Breaking Point of Conducting Material
This work could accelerate the development of flexible electronics.
Briefs: Aerospace
NASA Space Data Can Cut Disaster Response Times, Costs
The NASA study is a first step in developing a model to deploy in future disasters.
Briefs: Imaging
Researchers Generate Terahertz Laser with Laughing Gas
In the middle ground between microwaves and visible light lies terahertz radiation, and the promise of “Tray vision.”
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers Create Nanoscale Sensors to Better See How High Pressure Affects Materials
Researchers have developed new nanoscale technology to image and measure more of the stresses and strains on materials under high pressures.
Briefs: Communications
3D Inductor Technology Expands Microchip Capability
Using 3D components on a standardized 2D microchip manufacturing platform uses up to 100 times less chip space.
This system places virtual objects within real-world backgrounds on cellphone screens and lets people interact with those objects by hand as if they were really there.
Briefs: Imaging
Threads Detect Gases When Woven into Clothing
Equipment-free textile detectors could be used in public health, workplace safety, military, and rescue applications.
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