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Briefs: Energy
Scientists have now developed three-dimensional component architectures based on novel, printable thermoelectric materials.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Users can download the design files to 3D print and assemble a customizable peristaltic pump.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A novel 3D printed prosthetic arm is more comfortable, flexible, and cheaper than a conventional prosthesis.
Blog: Data Acquisition
Gift giving always induces anxiety. It’s never easy to pick a present that someone will enjoy, especially if the recipient is an engineer.
Articles: Materials
One promising way to meet modern industrial challenges is by using additive manufacturing processes.
Briefs: Materials
Ultra-efficient catalysts were developed that are cost-effective to make and simple to scale.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Instead of adding soft materials to a rigid robot body, researchers have taken a soft body and added rigid features to key components.
Briefs: Design
Manufacturing on Mars with 3D Printing
High-Martian content materials would be useful in making coatings to protect equipment from rust or radiation damage.
Briefs: Materials
This device could pave the way to higher-bandwidth wireless communications.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A new robotic system fuses visual information and radio-frequency signals to efficiently find hidden items buried under a pile of objects.
Quiz: Aerospace
Take this quiz to find out how much you know about the rise of 3D printing in space and its future outlook.
Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Medical Robotics - November 2022
"Millirobots" swimming in your bloodstream...soft robots you can print on demand...cobots hard at work in the test lab. Read about these and other innovative technologies in this compendium of recent articles...Special Reports: Materials
Additive Manufacturing - November 2022
AM/3D Printing is fundamentally changing how products are prototyped and produced in aerospace, medical, electronics, and many other fields. To help you keep pace with the latest advances, we present this...Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Despite additive manufacturing's popularity, there are still several technological barriers that must be addressed to understand the process.
Products: Test & Measurement
New products on the market in November 2022, including automotive relay, power inductors, RFID Read/Write modules, and more.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The 3D printing industry has grown quickly over the last decade with average compound annual growth rates of around 27 percent leading to a market size of $17.7 billion in 2022.
Briefs: Design
"The potential of harnessing the combined benefits of additive manufacturing and HEAs for achieving novel properties remains largely unexplored."
Briefs: Materials
MIT researchers have developed a way of making even the most unlikely pairings of materials take on a desired level of wettability.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The researchers created these sensing structures using just one material and a single run on a 3D printer.
Blog: Design
“This new technology will help to fully realize the potential of 3D printing. It will allow us to print much faster, helping to usher in a new era of digital manufacturing, as well as to enable the fabrication of complex, multi-material objects in a single step.”
INSIDER: RF & Microwave Electronics
Scientists have developed a new technique for fabricating metamaterials from sheets of paper, using a computer to guide the movement of conductive ink pens and mechanical...
Special Reports: Test & Measurement
RF & Microwave Electronics - October 2022
From battlespace communications to deep space missions, RF electronics are at the heart of new advances in a variety of fields. Read about the latest innovations in this compendium of articles from the...Articles: Energy
Wireless sensors are critical for the IIoT, but they need long-term, reliable battery power.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
To benchmark performance of printed sensors against the state of the art, NASA has developed a low-power flexible sensor platform.
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The new products for October 2022, including silicon diode thermometry, a current sensor simulator, and more.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
One common limitation of AM has been that produced articles cannot be recycled without substantial energy costs.
Briefs: Software
Simulations teach a neural network how to adjust printing parameters to minimize error, and then apply that controller to a real 3D printer. The system printed objects more accurately than all the other 3D-printing controllers they compared it to.
Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Launcher depends on Velo3D to 3D-print complex rocket components for low-cost, small satellite delivery systems.
Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
Smart Factory/IIoT - September 2022
Factories are getting "smarter" and more automated by the day, thanks to advances in AI, robotics, connectivity and sensors. In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Sensor...Top Stories
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
2025 Holiday Gift Guide for Engineers: Tech, Tools, and Gadgets
Blog: Power
Using Street Lamps as EV Chargers
INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
Scientists Create Superconducting Semiconductor Material
Blog: Materials
This Paint Can Cool Buildings Without Energy Input
Blog: Software
Quiz: Power
Webcasts
Upcoming Webinars: AR/AI
The Real Impact of AR and AI in the Industrial Equipment Industry
Upcoming Webinars: Motion Control
Next-Generation Linear and Rotary Stages: When Ultra Precision...
Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
SAE Automotive Engineering Podcast: Additive Manufacturing
Podcasts: Defense
A New Approach to Manufacturing Machine Connectivity for the Air Force
On-Demand Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Streamlining Manufacturing with Integrated Digital Planning and Simulation
On-Demand Webinars: Automotive
