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Briefs: Materials
This gel releases short gene sequences into the heart muscle to heal it following a heart attack.
Articles: Materials
A cryptographic ID tag, a high-reliability NASA switch, and a stretchable thermoelectric generator...
Technology Leaders: Materials
Ever since Henry Ford introduced the first moving production line to the industry in 1913, automotive manufacturers have been constantly striving to streamline their processes,...
Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Can Solar-Powered Desalination Solve Water-Scarcity Challenges?
“Seawater is a very abundant resource for clean water, but the problem is how to desalinate it,” MIT researcher Lenan Zhang told Tech Briefs in our April issue.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Here's what you'll need to know when you’re choosing an encoder for a motion control system.
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
As advancements in technology continue to define how pneumatic or electromechanical linear devices lift, move, or place a load, the requirements of excellent closed-loop positioning and accuracy greatly increase
Products: Photonics/Optics
Motor drivers, position sensors, offset couplings, and more.
Q&A: Energy
Lenan Zhang and his team at MIT developed a small, economical, highly efficient device to provide fresh drinking water using only the Sun for its energy input.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Surface treatments have limitations that demand attention early in the design process.
Briefs: Motion Control
Square trusses replace round for enhanced strength and robotics compatibility.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This technology cancels out the vibrations of a satellite by vibrating the solar panels in the opposite direction.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Robot-assisted surgery has advanced dramatically over the past decade in almost every surgical sub-specialty. Robot-assisted surgery is usually performed using surgical robot systems that involve...
Briefs: Motion Control
The domino effect is used to design deployable systems that expand quickly with a small push and are stable and locked into place after deployment.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include powering portable electronic devices and sensors, and harvesting waste mechanical energy for aircraft, automobile, and other transportation equipment.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The electrospun nanofibers are used for wound healing and 3D matrices for biological tissues.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This work could accelerate the development of flexible electronics.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Applications include homeland security, vehicle anti-collision systems, telecommunications systems, and industrial instrumentation.
INSIDER: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A small, inexpensive, and highly accurate gyroscope, developed at the University of Michigan, navigates without GPS. The key to making the gyroscope is a nearly symmetrical mechanical resonator...
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
3D printing is being used to quickly create life-saving parts and prototypes like masks, shields, and ventilator valves.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Altering the traditional intensity distribution of fiber lasers improves weld quality.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Increase battery life and reduce data loads with an analog-first processing architecture.
Application Briefs: Imaging
An interview with Mike Horton, CTO of ACEINNA, Inc. (Boston, MA).
Application Briefs: Communications
Beta Technologies is putting their Electrical Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft (eVTOL) prototype through the wringer.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Dr. Beth Holloway has been the Director of the Women in Engineering Program at Purdue University since 2001 and serves as...
Products: Imaging
Thermal cameras, testing software, an ion air knife, and more.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Researchers have developed new nanoscale technology to image and measure more of the stresses and strains on materials under high pressures.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Drones, smartphones, and sensors could provide a lifeline to the world’s growing elderly population at risk of falls.
Briefs: Motion Control
The bus is designed for high-frequency, high-temperature operation in electric drive systems and next-generation power electronics.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This cost-saving piping insulation has uses in refrigerated containers that protect food, medicine, and other perishables.
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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