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Briefs: Transportation
A new design enables artificial photosynthesis to generate fuel that can power homes and vehicles.
Briefs: Unmanned Systems
This program provides a relative navigation capability for spacecraft, remotely operated terrestrial vehicles, and machine vision.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Combined muscles and sensors made from soft materials allow for adaptable robots.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
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
The Solenoid Valve Health Monitor System (SVHMS) was developed to remotely monitor the health of solenoid valves, lowering operational costs and increasing reliability by predicting valve failures before they...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The new method produces strips of rubbery material that can pick up and release objects.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
An inexpensive gyroscope could help drones and autonomous cars stay on track without a GPS signal.
Briefs: Unmanned Systems
The process provides a cost-effective solution for applications in space-based imaging systems, military reconnaissance, and satellite and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Electrical cables are used in services such as power delivery, automation signaling, and communications.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
This system can amplify a faint signal from a neighboring system even when that signal’s amplitude is as small as ten trillionths of a meter.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Mini-magnets could enable cloud computing systems to process data up to 100 times faster than current technologies.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
Optically Reconfigurable Charge-Transfer Liquid Crystals
These re-writeable materials have applications in data storage and encryption, energy transducers, and optical display technologies.
Briefs: Materials
Heat predictably and precisely changes the surface structure of a particle of liquid metal.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The multitasking device could advance development of an electric circuit for faster, next-generation electronics like quantum computing technologies.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
This method of producing clean syngas could be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to gasoline.
Briefs: Materials
This method can be used to protect stored building materials and to remediate in-service wood and wood products.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The flexible device harvests heat energy from the body to monitor health.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This green process produces pristine graphene in bulk using waste food, plastic, and other materials.
Briefs: Materials
A novel plate-cell architecture reaches the theoretical limit of performance.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These composites could improve how unmanned vehicles dissipate energy.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This technology supports CO2 emissions reduction in cement manufacturing.
Briefs: Wearables
The rainproof, stainproof technology turns clothing into self-powered remotes while turning away bacteria.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Inspired by the octopus, the structure senses, computes, and responds without any centralized processing.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A new method could enable vehicles and equipment to better withstand high temperatures, loads, and speeds.
Briefs: Materials
Next-generation devices made with a “peel and stack” method could include electronic chips worn on the skin.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Bandages with integrated pH and temperature sensors, and electronically triggered drug release, improve healing.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
This method uses fiber optic probes for measurement of semiconductors, optical coatings, magnetic read/write heads, and precision machines.
Briefs: Energy
This fast, flexible tool allows researchers to quickly compare and prioritize strategies for converting biomass to fuels and products.
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