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Technology Leaders: Transportation
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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
High-precision medical sensors, battery-cell mappers, signal conditioners, and more.
Application Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Editor Ed Brown explores what’s ahead for MEMS automobile navigation systems.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The walking quadruped is controlled and powered by pressurized air.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The machines fold themselves within 100 milliseconds and can flatten and refold thousands of times.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A catalytic reaction causes a two-dimensional, chemically coated sheet to spontaneously morph into a three-dimensional gear.
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.
Articles: Motion Control
Learn the distinct forms that linear bearings take, and where the bearings are being used today.
Application Briefs: Motion Control
A valve actuator has deep-sea applications.
Products: Materials
Battery analyzers, uninterruptible power supplies, adhesives, and more.
Briefs: Materials
The structures’ small size and porosity make them well-suited for building components such as replacement joints.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See how makers of an automated truck wash system added a monitoring option for customers.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Potential applications include parachutes, hot air balloons, weather balloons, blimps, sails, and parasails.
Products: Software
Cable ties, milling software, snap-action switches, and more.
Articles: Propulsion
These 6 advancements are leading us to cleaner, faster aircraft.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The sensors could be used in medical applications such as neuroscience and metabolism processes.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The new hinge is the key to get loadbearing, large quadrotors to climb a few dozen feet in seconds.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The paper-like material could be useful in soft robots, sensors, artificial muscles, and electric generators.
NASA Spinoff: Robotics, Automation & Control
With a clever design by NASA, waiting for hot water could be a thing of the past.
Facility Focus: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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.
Briefs: Aerospace
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center developed designs for two micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) motion and position sensors: a single-axis accelerometer and a gyroscope....
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
What you need to know before you incorporate large diameter aspheres into your optical systems.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A flexible, free-standing THz sensor array images blind ends of irregularly shaped objects.
Blog: Nanotechnology
Taking inspiration from the insect, Tufts researchers created light-activated composite devices that execute precise, visible movements and form complex three-dimensional shapes, like a "photonic sunflower. "
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