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5 Ws: Robotics, Automation & Control
MIT alumnus-founded FarmWise uses autonomous machines to snip weeds while preserving crops, eliminating the need for herbicides.
Special Reports: Photonics/Optics
Optics & Photonics Innovations - April 2023
Demand for satellite communications bandwidth is quickly outstripping supply. The solution: optical, laser-based technologies. Read all about it – and other major photonics advances – in this...Special Reports: Unmanned Systems
Power Electronics - April 2023
This compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology looks at the latest advances in power electronics and energy storage for applications ranging from drones...Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
Aerospace & Defense Sensing - April 2023
NASA is applying sensor technologies to create a state-of-the-art dexterous humanoid robot, to monitor the structural health of inflatable habitats designed for Mars, and to test the first all-electric...Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The device uses soft robotics, ultra-thin electronics, and microfluidics.
Briefs: Energy
The material could pave the way for better, safer solid-state batteries.
Briefs: Energy
An international research collaboration led by UCLA has developed a way to use perovskite in solar cells while protecting it from the conditions that cause it to deteriorate.
Briefs: Energy
The commercially relevant approach opens a potential pathway to improve charging speeds for electric vehicles.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
3D nanometer-scale metamaterial structures hold promise for advanced optical isolators.
Briefs: Materials
New research suggests that laser-based devices are poised to become a lot smaller.
Briefs: Design
The piezoelectric “meta-bot” is capable of propulsion, movement, sensing, and decision-making.
Briefs: Medical
New research shows the glittering, serpentine structures that power wearable electronics can be created with the same technology used to print concert t-shirts.
Briefs: Medical
Researchers have developed a highly specialized 3D-printing technique that allows microfluidic channels to be fabricated on chips at a precise microscale.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Purdue University researchers have developed a method to add particles to filament and disperse them evenly through a traditional fused deposition modeling 3D printer.
Briefs: Materials
Building 3D-Printed Materials with Liquids
A research team has been tinkering with the use of 3D printing with liquids to create spongy materials for use in myriad industries.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A Terminator-style shape-shifting robot able to LIQUEFY and reform has been developed by engineers inspired by sea cucumbers.
Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
As battery manufacturers work to rapidly add new production capacity, they face a challenge in compressing the time it takes to build new production lines.
Articles: Motion Control
As manufacturing automation rapidly advances, conveyors are not only being used for transportation but also accurate material (or product) placement.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Automation vendors are looking for the latest technology that will give them a competitive advantage.
Quiz: Energy
Did you know that electric vehicles have been around for over a century? Test your knowledge about the history of EVs in this quiz.
INSIDER: Power
Flexible polymers made with a new generation of the Nobel-winning “click chemistry” reaction find use in capacitors and other applications.
Blog: AR/AI
The release of OpenAi's ChatGPT has unleashed a wave of renewed interest in AI. How will this language-based AI affect 3D CAD design and 3D printing?
Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Houston-based startup Downhole Emerging Technologies used direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) as the additive solution to 3D print durable materials necessary for geothermal energy applications.
Blog: Data Acquisition
The Yonder Deep team installed an entire suite of sensors in its AUV, versatile enough to withstand the frigid Arctic waters as well as the coastal waters of Southern California.
Blog: Test & Measurement
The first study on how purified boron nitride nanotubes remain stable in extreme temperatures in inert environments.
Special Reports: Medical
Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - March 2023
The first 3D-printed nano-alloy...plasma treatment increases plastic part value 10x...light-powered catalysts aid drug manufacturing...how to build better "soft" robots. Those are just a few of...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The system promotes myocardial regeneration after a cardiac event.
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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
World’s Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots
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