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Application Briefs: Connectivity
Learn the USB3 and GigE vision standards, how they keep pace with imaging technologies, and how augmenting the cabling is critical for optimal performance.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
One unexpected application for spider silk is its use in the creation of biocompatible lenses.
Articles: Imaging
An A/C alternative, AI that sharpens blurry images, and a NASA energy harvester.
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
See how one company reached out to NASA with an offer to develop a custom sensor for the Mars 2020 mission rover.
Briefs: Imaging
Empa researchers were able to demonstrate real-time acoustic monitoring of laser weld seams.
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Although life has not been found on Mars just year, a researcher from NYU thinks there could be life...under it.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
As an integral part of onshore and offshore drilling, mud pumps circulate drilling fluids to facilitate drilling oil and natural gas wells. Mud pumps stabilize pressure and support the well during the...
Products: Test & Measurement
Positioning devices, vibration transmitters, brushless DC motors, and more.
Products: Data Acquisition
Data storage boards, modular plugs, equipment enclosures, and more.
Briefs: Motion Control
Applications include absorbers, tuned mass dampers, harmonic absorbers, and seismic dampers.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
This approach allows scientists to study the communication within plants, providing valuable insights to improve crop yields.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This gel-like material leads a path toward “mechanoceuticals.”
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
These sensors monitor electrical loads from household appliances to support grid operations.
Briefs: Motion Control
The gripper’s soft, sensitive fingers could enable robots to help with tying knots, wire shaping, or surgical suturing.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This technology can help robots walk up to 40 percent faster on uneven terrain such as pebbles and wood chips.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The battery design increases the number of possible cycles from tens to more than 100 with little degradation.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Using ceramic material and graphene, the toughness of solid-state lithium-ion batteries can be doubled.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
New safety relay modules follow updated standards to give designers more options for a tailored electrical safety implementation.
Blog: Test & Measurement
The Perseverance rover has an almost human-like way of keeping its lenses clean.
Blog: Aerospace
The Mars rover Perseverance has a helicopter. Will the rover have to carry it around?
Products: Electronics & Computers
Photoelectric sensors, cable connectors, power monitors, and USB3 cameras.
Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
Exploring Mars - July 2020
As NASA prepares this week to launch its latest robotic rover to the Red Planet, we are excited to present this commemorative publication chronicling – through historic images and video – six decades of Mars...Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The new filament allows low-cost printers to produce parts with mechanical properties competitive with injection molded plastics.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The miniaturized, autonomous, reconfigurable solar sail is capable of very fine maneuvering by small surface deformation.
Briefs: Transportation
The new technology demonstrates a 20 percent savings in fuel in typical passenger car low-load operating conditions.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Sensors in the hand can actually detect forces being transmitted through the thickness of the robot.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA's Dry Goods Delivery System, a lung-heart sensor on a chip, and more.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Applications exist both on Mars and on Earth.
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Traditional robotic feet are made of rigid components. A team of engineers at UCSD turned to coffee grounds to make legged robots more flexible and able to walk on a variety of rough terrain.
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Quiz: Power
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