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Stay updated on electronic and computer options for design engineers. Access articles, technical briefs, and white papers on the viable solutions and products providing new tools and innovation for aerospace, military, manufacturing and medical.

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Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The global interoperability standard supports manufacturing and manufacturing DX (digital transformation) in the digital era.
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Briefs: Wearables
The wearable antenna bends, stretches, and compresses without compromising function.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The technology would enable transmission of information just by touching a surface.
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Special Reports: Imaging
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Aerospace Manufacturing - August 2021
Demanding applications in the aerospace industry require products and systems that are manufactured using the latest technologies – from design and simulation, to fabrication and final testing. To help...

Briefs: Data Acquisition
The circuitry uses race logic to solve complex problems with a minimum expenditure of energy.
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Blog: Materials
While soft robots hold promise in applications ranging from search-and-rescue efforts to wearable exoskeletons, the technologies are often held back by the electronics, says William Grover, a...
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Temperature transmitters, robotic tool changers, epoxy adhesives, and more.
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Briefs: AR/AI
The algorithm identified a new compound potentially useful for photonic devices and biologically inspired computers.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The technology could boost quantum computers and other superconducting electronics.
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Products: Electronics & Computers
The GVC1001 computer features dual 10-GigE ports for gigabit Ethernet camera or other sensor inputs.
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Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
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Rugged Computing - March 2021
From the battlefield to the oceans to the extremes of space, electronics and computing advances enable missions in the harshest conditions. To help you keep pace with the latest developments, we present this...

INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Researchers at the University of Nottingham have cracked the conundrum of how to use inks to 3D-print novel electronic devices with useful properties, such as an ability...
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Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Jacobs' scientists are helping to make contract-tracing apps, emergency-use ventilators, and even squid-bots.
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5 Ws: Electronics & Computers
Users can take paper sheets from a notebook and turn them into a music player interface or make food packaging interactive.
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Question of the Week: Electronics & Computers
Will Self-Erasing Chips Catch On?
University of Michigan engineers reported that their new self-erasing chips could help stop counterfeit electronics or provide alerts if sensitive shipments are tampered with. The chips use a new material that temporarily stores energy, changing the color of the light it emits. The self-erase period takes seven...
Products: Software
Tubing plugs, displacement measurements, CAM software, and more.
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Briefs: Software
The algorithm provides an extra layer of safety and security against hackers of electronic devices.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
Neuromorphic computing uses memristors that could function and operate like real brain synapses.
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INSIDER: Materials
For a long time, something important has been regularly neglected in electronics. If you want to make electronic components smaller and smaller, you also need the right insulator materials. This is...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
MIT startup Realtime Robotics invented a solution that gives robots the ability to quickly adjust their path to avoid objects as they move to a target. The Realtime controller can be connected to a...
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
For planned robotic and crewed missions to the Moon and Mars, NASA is developing and testing precise landing and hazard-avoidance technologies. A combination of laser sensors, a camera, a high-speed...
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Tech Briefs posed questions to machine learning/AI industry execs to get their opinions on platform selection, data interpretation, and more.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Smart sensors for hazardous areas monitor essential assets, such as motors and pumps.
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Briefs: Software
This high-strength material could be used to improve safety and reduce the cost of producing cars.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This method provides a key step toward quantum computers, sensors, and distributed quantum information.
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Deciding between edge computing and cloud computing? Make sure to consider these four major factors, says our industry expert.
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Products: Materials
Data storage boards, modular plugs, equipment enclosures, and more.
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Briefs: Energy
This technology offers the possibility to both bolster computer power and create smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient computer memory technologies.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This approach could lead to entirely new and more efficient logic switches for computer chips.
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