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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The battery design increases the number of possible cycles from tens to more than 100 with little degradation.
Articles: Materials
A number of battery-related innovations have been assisted by a joining technology: ultrasonic metal welding.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Applications include absorbers, tuned mass dampers, harmonic absorbers, and seismic dampers.
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Positioning devices, vibration transmitters, brushless DC motors, and more.
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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The gripper’s soft, sensitive fingers could enable robots to help with tying knots, wire shaping, or surgical suturing.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This approach could be used to cost-effectively make soft robots and wearable technologies.
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
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...
Blog: Test & Measurement
The Perseverance rover has an almost human-like way of keeping its lenses clean.
Blog: Propulsion
The Mars rover Perseverance has a helicopter. Will the rover have to carry it around?
Special Reports: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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...Products: Energy
Photoelectric sensors, cable connectors, power monitors, and USB3 cameras.
Briefs: Motion Control
Bio-Inspired Propulsion
Frequencies and passive dynamics of vehicles moving in air or water help enhance propulsion performance.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Applications exist both on Mars and on Earth.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
NASA's Dry Goods Delivery System, a lung-heart sensor on a chip, and more.
Briefs: Energy
The miniaturized, autonomous, reconfigurable solar sail is capable of very fine maneuvering by small surface deformation.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The new filament allows low-cost printers to produce parts with mechanical properties competitive with injection molded plastics.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Sensors in the hand can actually detect forces being transmitted through the thickness of the robot.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The new technology demonstrates a 20 percent savings in fuel in typical passenger car low-load operating conditions.
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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.
Briefs: Energy
The rainproof, stainproof technology turns clothing into self-powered remotes while turning away bacteria.
Products: Software
Industrial PCs, power modules, processor blades, and more.
Q&A: Robotics, Automation & Control
A robotic finger has a sense of touch that can be localized with high precision over a large, multi-curved surface.
Articles: Aerospace
Perseverance will have the ability to land in more challenging terrain than Curiosity, making more rugged sites eligible as safe landing candidates.
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Tech Briefs spoke with NASA’s Ken Williford, Mars 2020 Deputy Project Scientist, to learn more about the science capabilities of Perseverance.
NASA Spinoff: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Wool from special sheep keeps astronauts and emergency responders safe.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This system can amplify a faint signal from a neighboring system even when that signal’s amplitude is as small as ten trillionths of a meter.
Facility Focus: Energy
Rensselaer Engineering focuses on solving the “grand challenges” facing humanity.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Electrical cables are used in services such as power delivery, automation signaling, and communications.
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