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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The skin could help rehabilitation and enhance virtual reality by instantaneously adapting to a wearer's movements.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The algorithm speeds up the planning process that robots use to adjust their grip on objects.
Application Briefs: Motion Control
The ESA has commissioned its industry partners to design a new docking system called the International Berthing and Docking Mechanism (IBDM).
Briefs: Aerospace
The technology can be used in commercial motors, robotic systems, and hybrid and electric vehicles.
Briefs: Automotive
Researchers have developed a self-contained wheel unit that combines a wheel and an electric motor.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A technology uses a combination of WiFi signals and accelerometer technology to track devices in near-real-time.
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
“Cobots” allow companies of almost any size to automate processes that were previously out of reach.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
New measurements could help experts guess the location and size of the next earthquake.
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Our expert examines the pros and cons of welding, adhesives, and other metal joining methods.
Question of the Week: Defense
For developers of A.I.-guided drones and autonomous technologies, failure is not an option.
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A team in Germany has a quicker, cleaner approach to welding metal to plastic: The HPCI® Joining Gun.
Products: Electronics & Computers
OnLogic has introduced the Karbon 700 high-performance rugged computer.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Most of us know optical lenses as curved, transparent pieces of plastic or glass, designed to focus light for microscopes, spectacles, cameras, and more. For the most part, a lens’...
Briefs: Transportation
UCLA engineers have made major improvements on their design of an optical neural network — a device inspired by how the human brain works — that can identify objects or process...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Researchers have developed a new self-calibrating endoscope that produces 3D images of objects smaller than a single cell without a lens or any optical, electrical, or...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Laser illumination is scaling in a new direction.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Machine vision systems shed light on processes too small or too fast to see with the human eye.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
See the eight winners of the 2019 "Create the Future" Design Contest
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Although Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is being used widely for pallet and box-level tracking in the commercial sector, significant technology gaps remain for tracking dense quantities at the item...
Articles: Transportation
A prototype of the AC 'Biode' battery has been developed at 20W.
Articles: Energy
Learn about the world's first wave-driven desalination system.
NASA Spinoff: Propulsion
The material used on a shuttle's rocket boosters has several terrestrial applications.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
To investigate oceans, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that sends data to the surface. Supplying constant power to scores of sensors designed to stay for long...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A team of inventors found a fast way to join plastic to metal.
Q&A: Semiconductors & ICs
Sherry Towfighian and her team made a big improvement on how microphones are manufactured.
Facility Focus: Information Technology
In recent decades, NSF-funded researchers have discovered quite a bit, including many of the fundamental particles of matter.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Flying animals both power and control flight by flapping their wings. This enables small natural flyers such as insects to hover close to a flower but also to rapidly escape danger. Animal flight has...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The Foldable Drone: a Morphing Quadrotor that can Squeeze and Fly
Davide Falanga, Kevin Kleber, Stefano Mintchev, Dario Floreano, and Davide...
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
For decades, robots in controlled environments like assembly lines have been able to pick up the same object over and over again. More recently, breakthroughs in computer vision have enabled...
Top Stories
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Going for Gold in Winter Olympic Curling
Blog: Energy
Batteries that Can Withstand the Cold
Blog: Lighting
A Stretchable OLED that Can Maintain Most of Its Luminescence
INSIDER: Design
Advancing All-Solid-State Batteries
Blog: Data Acquisition
Blog: Materials
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