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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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.
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Special Reports: Energy
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Vehicle Electrification - July 2021
GM electrifies the new Corvette...a French nanomaterials company aims for a 5-minute EV recharge...Triumph unveils a radical new electric sportbike design. These are just a few of the innovations you'll read...

Articles: Materials
Battery recycling, NASA's water treatment, and a wireless wearable transmitter.
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Temperature transmitters, robotic tool changers, epoxy adhesives, and more.
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Briefs: Energy
Injection of air at the trailing edge of a winglet further reduces drag.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The technology harvests electrical energy from waste heat sources.
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Q&A: Energy
Dr. Burak Ozpineci is developing a system that charges electric vehicles while driving.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
This could make possible embedded devices like a spinal cord-stimulating unit with a battery-powered magnetic transmitter on a wearable belt.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
These tiny aerial robots can operate in cramped spaces and withstand collisions.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The size and shape of the nanostructure can be controlled as it is assembled piece by piece.
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Briefs: Medical
This wearable device is placed on the skin to measure a variety of body responses, from electrical to biomechanical signals.
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Briefs: Medical
Terrestrial uses include physical therapy, clinical diagnosis, athletic training and performance, and robust exercise equipment.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The soft material demonstrates autonomous, heartbeat-like oscillating properties.
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Briefs: Energy
The carbon fiber serves as the electrode, conductor, and load-bearing material.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A production-based X-ray solution performs product quality evaluation directly on the manufacturing line.
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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.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This could lead to the commercial development of smart glass, with applications ranging from imaging to advanced robotics.
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The technology uses tactile sensing to identify objects underground.
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Special Reports: Imaging
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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: Green Design & Manufacturing
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...
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Articles: Software
See how simulation software is being used to is automate the test process for vehicle rotors.
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5 Ws: Materials
The invention could help solve the problem of providing clean water off the grid or where low-cost, non-powered water purification is needed.
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Briefs: Imaging
The inexpensive cameras are easy to produce.
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Briefs: Transportation
The technology could help computers process visual information more like the human brain.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
This work could lead to much more robust devices that continue to operate in spite of damage.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Applications include portable aerospace structures and terrestrial structures such as cleanrooms and field hospitals.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The device uses load frames to test bonded structures in aerospace, automotive, defense, and energy storage applications.
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Briefs: Motion Control
New high bus voltage stepper motor systems avoid the complexity and expense of servo motors.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The technology could boost quantum computers and other superconducting electronics.
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