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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
UC Berkeley engineers have created a lightweight and durable robot that achieves exquisite control and agility by modulating the electrostatic forces between its feet and surfaces.
Articles: Wearables
Battery recycling, NASA's water treatment, and a wireless wearable transmitter.
Products: Materials
Temperature transmitters, robotic tool changers, epoxy adhesives, and more.
Briefs: Aerospace
Injection of air at the trailing edge of a winglet further reduces drag.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This could make possible embedded devices like a spinal cord-stimulating unit with a battery-powered magnetic transmitter on a wearable belt.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
These tiny aerial robots can operate in cramped spaces and withstand collisions.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The size and shape of the nanostructure can be controlled as it is assembled piece by piece.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This wearable device is placed on the skin to measure a variety of body responses, from electrical to biomechanical signals.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Terrestrial uses include physical therapy, clinical diagnosis, athletic training and performance, and robust exercise equipment.
Briefs: Materials
The soft material demonstrates autonomous, heartbeat-like oscillating properties.
Briefs: Imaging
A production-based X-ray solution performs product quality evaluation directly on the manufacturing line.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The algorithm speeds up the planning process robots use to adjust their grip on objects for picking and sorting or tool use.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The technology uses tactile sensing to identify objects underground.
Special Reports: Test & Measurement
Smart Factory/IIoT - June 2021
Factories are getting "smarter" and more automated by the day, thanks to advances in AI, connectivity, controls, and sensors. In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Sensor...Briefs: Materials
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...
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: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This work could lead to much more robust devices that continue to operate in spite of damage.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Applications include portable aerospace structures and terrestrial structures such as cleanrooms and field hospitals.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The device uses load frames to test bonded structures in aerospace, automotive, defense, and energy storage applications.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
New high bus voltage stepper motor systems avoid the complexity and expense of servo motors.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The technology could boost quantum computers and other superconducting electronics.
Facility Focus: Materials
Berkeley’s academic research reflects pressing global challenges in the areas of health, energy, and the environment.
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Vision systems, signal generators, AC-DC converters, and more.
Technology Leaders: Automotive
You may not be able to see them, but power anomalies that originate within your automated control system are costing you expensive downtime.
Technology Leaders: Data Acquisition
Sensors play a pivotal role in solving critical business challenges.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Researchers have developed a millimeter-thick accelerometer.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
MEMS sensors have been around for a long time, but requests from the market for new applications are driving upgrades in the technology.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The MPS Flammable Gas Sensor can detect and identify the concentrations of 12 of the most common combustible gases,
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
High-precision medical sensors, battery-cell mappers, signal conditioners, and more.
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