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Briefs: Motion Control
This mechanical gyroscope can advance motion sensing capabilities in consumer-sized applications.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The robot is built entirely from smaller robots and can form a robophysical system that can move by itself.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Such grippers would be suited for human-robot partnership in assembly lines in the automotive, electronic packaging, and other industries.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Conventional fastening mechanisms like nails, bolts, and welds are subject to manufacturing and inspection tolerances, differential thermal growth, and other sources of error that lead to over-constraint, among other...
Briefs: Transportation
These soft robots can be rolled up and carried in a pocket.
Briefs: Aerospace
Systems of tiny robots could build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This robot “blood” stores energy, transmits force, operates appendages, and provides structure, all in an integrated design.
Briefs: Motion Control
Such machines, only a few tens of micrometers across, could be used in the human body to perform small operations.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A new laser-based system offers an efficient way to detect fires in challenging environments such as industrial facilities or large construction sites.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
For disease diagnosis, a microchip maps the back of the eye.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A system senses tiny changes in shadows on the ground to determine if there’s a moving object coming around the corner.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
A nanoantenna-enabled detector boosts the usable signal of a thermal infrared camera by up to three times.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The Planetary Tides Simulation Facility for Simulation Tidal Strain in Planetary Ice Analogs
Applications include modeling of tidal stress response of icy satellites as well as fatigue of terrestrial ice shelves.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Chromium Removal from PVC Filters
The process does not cause any structural changes to the PVC filter membrane.
Briefs: IoMT
This electronic pill can relay diagnostic information or release drugs in response to smartphone commands.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
System Allows Diabetics to Monitor Blood Sugar Without Drawing Blood
The self-contained technology is similar to the smart watches that monitor heart rate.
Briefs: Aerospace
A carbon nanotube heat shield can better protect extremely fast aircraft.
Briefs: Aerospace
This technique lowers airstream noise generated at the side edges of deployed flaps, elevons, or slats.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
These advances are useful for transportation, infrastructure, and aerospace.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These barrier coatings protect high-performance components in extreme environments.
Briefs: Energy
A solvent leaches cobalt and lithium for reuse from spent batteries.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Interaction of sound and light reveals new information of a crystal's quantum properties.
Briefs: Motion Control
This microbot can walk on land, swim, and walk underwater.
Briefs: Energy
This approach is a cost-effective way to convert carbon dioxide gas into methane.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The device can be used to pre-screen for the virus using gene-editing assays before those infected can travel and expose others.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Applying a surface-active agent makes metal easier to cut and shape into parts and pieces.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Recovery of Mercury and Rare Earth Elements from Fluorescent Lamp Phosphors
This method will enable safer fluorescent light recycling.
Briefs: Energy
Power System for Hybrid Heavy-Duty Trucks
Electric motors and gas-alcohol engines could slash pollution levels and greenhouse gases from long-haul trucks.
Briefs: Energy
These robust materials convert excess heat energy into electricity.
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