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Briefs: Aerospace
This lightweight material brings strength and durability to complex shapes.
5 Ws: Data Acquisition
The biometric tool uses modified wireless earbuds to authenticate smartphone users
Products: Materials
Adhesives, flame-retardant compounds, vision measurement, and more...
Briefs: Motion Control
The algorithm speeds up the planning process that robots use to adjust their grip on objects.
Briefs: Aerospace
The technology can be used in commercial motors, robotic systems, and hybrid and electric vehicles.
Briefs: Motion Control
Researchers have developed a self-contained wheel unit that combines a wheel and an electric motor.
Briefs: Communications
A technology uses a combination of WiFi signals and accelerometer technology to track devices in near-real-time.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Sensing technology will help to transform manufacturing floors into the connected factories of the future.
Articles: Motion Control
“Cobots” allow companies of almost any size to automate processes that were previously out of reach.
Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Will the Ability to Manipulate Virtual Objects in Real-World Scenes Help Your Design and Manufacturing Efforts?
A Tech Briefs TV video this week demonstrated a Brown University system called Portal-ble. The augmented-reality technology allows you to place virtual objects within real-world backgrounds on smartphone screens. Users can then interact...
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Our expert examines the pros and cons of welding, adhesives, and other metal joining methods.
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Computed tomography is being used in the medical and industrial field. An expert explains how the two imaging techniques differ.
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
What's the best aluminum for extrusion? A Tech Briefs reader asks our expert.
Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Will Entire Planes Be Built By 'Assembler Robots?'
Commercial aircraft are typically manufactured in sections, often in different locations, and then flown to a central plant for final assembly. Researchers at MIT are hoping to change that.
Products: Communications
OnLogic has introduced the Karbon 700 high-performance rugged computer.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
UCLA engineers have made major improvements on their design of an optical neural network — a device inspired by how the human brain works — that can identify objects or process...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Laser illumination is scaling in a new direction.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Machine vision systems shed light on processes too small or too fast to see with the human eye.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Engineers at the University of Illinois have found a way to redirect misfit light waves to reduce energy loss during optical data transmission. In a study,...
Articles: Software
Through Livox, non-verbal people can speak, learn how to read and write, and understand abstract concepts.
Articles: Automotive
See the eight winners of the 2019 "Create the Future" Design Contest
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Although Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is being used widely for pallet and box-level tracking in the commercial sector, significant technology gaps remain for tracking dense quantities at the item...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A fully print-in-place technique for electronics could enable technologies such as high-adhesion, embedded electronic tattoos and bandages with patient-specific biosensors.
Briefs: Energy
NASA Langley Research Center developed a wind event warning technology that provides a practical early warning system (5-10 minutes) for a severe change in the wind vector. Events such as gusts, shear, microbursts, or...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Smart Electronic Skin for Robots and Prosthetics
Humans use the sense of touch to accomplish almost every daily task such as picking up a cup of coffee or shaking someone’s hand. Without it, humans can even lose their sense of balance when walking. Similarly, robots need to have a sense of touch in order to interact better with humans but robots...
Briefs: Wearables
Contact lenses that can monitor the wearer’s health and correct eyesight use embedded electronics. These, and other curved devices such as solar cells and electronics, could be...
Products: Test & Measurement
3D-printing platforms, simulation software, transistors, and more.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Thermal cameras like forward looking infrared (FLIR) sensors are actively deployed on aerial and ground vehicles, in watch towers, and at check points for surveillance purposes. More recently,...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A team of inventors found a fast way to join plastic to metal.
Top Stories
Blog: Lighting
A Stretchable OLED that Can Maintain Most of Its Luminescence
Blog: Energy
Batteries that Can Withstand the Cold
INSIDER: Energy
Advancing All-Solid-State Batteries
Blog: Power
My Opinion: We Need More Power Soon — Is Nuclear the Answer?
Quiz: Power
Blog: Data Acquisition
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