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Articles: Wearables
Battery recycling, NASA's water treatment, and a wireless wearable transmitter.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The technology uses tactile sensing to identify objects underground.
Application Briefs: Motion Control
A valve actuator has deep-sea applications.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Designers who must sense motor position, speed, or acceleration have a lot of choices, including resolvers, optical encoders, and Hall-effect devices.
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Encoders, quick disconnects, automation systems, and more.
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Editor Ed Brown explores what’s ahead for MEMS automobile navigation systems.
Products: Test & Measurement
High-precision medical sensors, battery-cell mappers, signal conditioners, and more.
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Vision systems, signal generators, AC-DC converters, and more.
Facility Focus: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Berkeley’s academic research reflects pressing global challenges in the areas of health, energy, and the environment.
Briefs: Motion Control
A catalytic reaction causes a two-dimensional, chemically coated sheet to spontaneously morph into a three-dimensional gear.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Learn the distinct forms that linear bearings take, and where the bearings are being used today.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The machines fold themselves within 100 milliseconds and can flatten and refold thousands of times.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The device uses load frames to test bonded structures in aerospace, automotive, defense, and energy storage applications.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The walking quadruped is controlled and powered by pressurized air.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Applications include portable aerospace structures and terrestrial structures such as cleanrooms and field hospitals.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers have developed a millimeter-thick accelerometer.
Briefs: Motion Control
New high bus voltage stepper motor systems avoid the complexity and expense of servo motors.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This work could lead to much more robust devices that continue to operate in spite of damage.
5 Ws: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The invention could help solve the problem of providing clean water off the grid or where low-cost, non-powered water purification is needed.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Due to the chemical stability and durability of industrial polymers, plastic waste does not easily degrade in landfills and is often burned, which produces carbon dioxide and other hazardous gases. In order...
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
What you need to know before you incorporate large diameter aspheres into your optical systems.
Facility Focus: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Notable graduates of the school include Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos, Google executive Eric Schmidt, Internet pioneer Bob Kahn, former Chrysler head Lee Iacocca, and six NASA astronauts.
Articles: Aerospace
These 6 advancements are leading us to cleaner, faster aircraft.
Products: Electronics & Computers
Cable ties, milling software, snap-action switches, and more.
Products: Energy
Battery analyzers, uninterruptible power supplies, adhesives, and more.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center developed designs for two micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) motion and position sensors: a single-axis accelerometer and a gyroscope....
Briefs: Motion Control
The new hinge is the key to get loadbearing, large quadrotors to climb a few dozen feet in seconds.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The sensors could be used in medical applications such as neuroscience and metabolism processes.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Potential applications include parachutes, hot air balloons, weather balloons, blimps, sails, and parasails.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Podcasts: Medical
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