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Stay updated on advancements in mechanical components and mechatronics systems. New technologies in MEMs, fluid systems, and propulsion are driving breakthroughs in transportation, electrification, autonomous driving, and manufacturing.

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Products: Data Acquisition
Data storage boards, modular plugs, equipment enclosures, and more.
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Q&A: Energy
A new system from Oak Ridge National Laboratory enables electric vehicles to be charged while on the road.
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Briefs: Materials
This approach could be used to cost-effectively make soft robots and wearable technologies.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Applications include absorbers, tuned mass dampers, harmonic absorbers, and seismic dampers.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Lithium batteries made using this electrode type could be much safer than typical lithium metal-based batteries.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This approach allows scientists to study the communication within plants, providing valuable insights to improve crop yields.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The gripper’s soft, sensitive fingers could enable robots to help with tying knots, wire shaping, or surgical suturing.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These are important traits in electronics and electrical systems including electric cars, industrial drills, and electric grids.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This technology can help robots walk up to 40 percent faster on uneven terrain such as pebbles and wood chips.
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Briefs: Materials
This gel-like material leads a path toward “mechanoceuticals.”
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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.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This technique offers enhanced resolution and improved system reliability for mapping and obstacle recognition and navigation for vehicles.
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Briefs: Materials
Using ceramic material and graphene, the toughness of solid-state lithium-ion batteries can be doubled.
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Briefs: Materials
The technology could help call attention to important traffic information when it’s dark, with potential benefits for both drivers and pedestrians.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
New safety relay modules follow updated standards to give designers more options for a tailored electrical safety implementation.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
These sensors monitor electrical loads from household appliances to support grid operations.
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NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
The NASA-funded nanoparticle lubricant also works in satellites and space vehicles.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
An ultrafast image sensor with a built-in neural network can be trained to recognize certain objects.
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Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems

Watch below as NASA experts review how they plan to return samples from the surface of Mars back to Earth.

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Question of the Week: Energy
Will Electric Aircraft Take-Off in Everyday Aviation?

In May of 2020, the “eCaravan” aircraft, powered by a 750-horsepower electric motor and more than 2000 pounds of lithium-ion batteries, flew to a height of over 2500 feet, at over 100 miles per hour. The all-electric airplane was built by magniX, Seattle-based electric propulsion...

Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The Perseverance rover has an almost human-like way of keeping its lenses clean.
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Blog: Aerospace
The Mars rover Perseverance has a helicopter. Will the rover have to carry it around?
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Products: Electronics & Computers
Photoelectric sensors, cable connectors, power monitors, and USB3 cameras.
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Special Reports: Transportation
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Vehicle Electrification - July 2020

The global transition to electric vehicles presents new design, manufacturing, and infrastructure challenges. To help you keep pace with the rapid changes in vehicle electrification technology, we present...

Special Reports: Aerospace
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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...

Briefs: Transportation
A quantum material could offset energy demand of artificial intelligence.
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Briefs: Materials
The new filament allows low-cost printers to produce parts with mechanical properties competitive with injection molded plastics.
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Briefs: Aerospace
The miniaturized, autonomous, reconfigurable solar sail is capable of very fine maneuvering by small surface deformation.
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Briefs: Energy
Solid-State Lithium Battery
This thin film battery can be used for on-package power in mass market electric vehicles (EVs) and electronic devices.

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