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Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Can 'Charging Rooms' Catch On?
One of the Tech Briefs highlighted in the second section of today’s INSIDER is a “charging room” from the University of Michigan and University of Tokyo that provides electricity over the air. The aluminum test area uses magnetic fields to deliver 50 watts and power-up devices, no matter their location within...
Podcasts: Medical
Marcus Gerhardt and his company at Blackrock Neurotech are creating a brain-computer interface that restores senses for paralyzed patients.
INSIDER: Green Design & Manufacturing
The largest ever simulation of its kind, modeled on the Texas power grid, concluded that consumers stand to save about 15 percent on their annual electric bills by partnering with...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new, internet-connected lighting system for greenhouses could sharply reduce a farmer’s electrical bill, according to a study by University of Georgia researchers.
INSIDER: Energy
In a milestone for renewable energy integration, General Electric (GE) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) operated a common class of wind turbines in grid-forming mode, which...
INSIDER: Software
Renewable energy has an intermittency problem — the sun provides no power at night, while winds can stop suddenly.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Makers of a brain-computer interface recall a memorable achievement in prosthetics: A presidential handshake.
Special Reports: Unmanned Systems
Unmanned Systems - March 2022
Powering better battlefield drones...autonomous quadcopters that fly aerobatic maneuvers...a breakthrough in compact UAV satellite communications technology. Read about these and other advances in air, ground, and...Products: Communications
A Smart Gadget, a simulator module, and a holographic display.
Facility Focus: Energy
Michigan engineers and collaborators are improving smart infrastructure, autonomous transportation, weather prediction, nuclear non-proliferation, and more.
Products: Software
Smart contactors, an industrial edge platform, tiny engines, and more.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This system would extend the life of CubeSat satellites.
Briefs: Wearables
These textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing and potentially help patients recovering from post-surgery breathing changes.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
Mechanical properties, such as strength and ductility, can be improved for car, plane, and building components.
Briefs: Energy
The nanothin material could advance self-powered electronics, wearable technologies, and even deliver pacemakers powered by heartbeats.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The material could potentially provide a platform for error-free quantum computing.
Briefs: Energy
In-wall capacitors power lights, phones, and laptops without wires.
Briefs: Energy
Applications include power and energy, communications, and sensors.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The method could support the semiconductor industry and facilitate development of next-gen devices.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Researchers have created an electronic microsystem that can intelligently respond to information inputs without any external energy input, much like a...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Find the right components that protect your electronics from the effects of temperature and moisture.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The grid’s growing size and complexity increases vulnerability to cyberattacks.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See what integrated building systems can do to enhance the working and living environment inside a commercial building.
Technology Leaders: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The method combines concepts of global and local stereo methods for accurate, pixel- wise matching at low runtime.
Products: Electronics & Computers
Spectrometers, digital microscopes, high-speed imaging, and more.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Columbia researchers are reducing both the size and the power consumption of a visible-spectrum phase modulator, from one millimeter to 10 microns.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Engineers at Caltech, ETH Zurich, and Harvard are developing artificial intelligence (AI) that will allow autonomous drones to use ocean currents to aid their navigation, rather than...
Blog: Data Acquisition
Data centers have found a more efficient way of handling power. So, what led to the better power path?
Q&A: Electronics & Computers
Dr. Israel Owens and his team at Sandia National Laboratories have used a crystal smaller than a dime and a laser smaller than a shoebox to safely measure 20 million volts without making physical contact to the electrode.
Top Stories
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
2025 Holiday Gift Guide for Engineers: Tech, Tools, and Gadgets
INSIDER: Research Lab
Scientists Create Superconducting Semiconductor Material
Blog: Software
Quiz: Materials
Blog: Aerospace
Tech Briefs Wrapped 2025: Top 10 Technology Stories
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Webcasts
Upcoming Webinars: AR/AI
The Real Impact of AR and AI in the Industrial Equipment Industry
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Podcasts: Medical
How Wearables Are Enhancing Smart Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Power
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