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Briefs: Imaging
This technology cancels out the vibrations of a satellite by vibrating the solar panels in the opposite direction.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Square trusses replace round for enhanced strength and robotics compatibility.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This technology could help control driverless cars and automated warehouses.
INSIDER: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A small, inexpensive, and highly accurate gyroscope, developed at the University of Michigan, navigates without GPS. The key to making the gyroscope is a nearly symmetrical mechanical resonator...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Rutgers University engineers have created a tabletop device that can draw blood or insert catheters to deliver fluids and drugs. The device can accurately pinpoint blood vessels, improving success...
Briefs: Materials
This framework can be used by commercial and military aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles.
Briefs: Energy
This technology could impact new directions in robotics design.
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Thermal cameras, testing software, an ion air knife, and more.
Briefs: Motion Control
Applications include valves, tubes, and other gas and fluid system components.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The bus is designed for high-frequency, high-temperature operation in electric drive systems and next-generation power electronics.
Application Briefs: Propulsion
Beta Technologies is putting their Electrical Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft (eVTOL) prototype through the wringer.
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This month: Sensors that measure weather, proximity, pH, and more.
Products: Photonics/Optics
Perovskites
Goodfellow (Coraopolis, PA) recently announced a new range of perovskites, a group of materials that demonstrate great potential for optoelectronic applications. Perovskites have a unique and versatile crystal...
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Know your valve options.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Such machines, only a few tens of micrometers across, could be used in the human body to perform small operations.
Briefs: Energy
This robot “blood” stores energy, transmits force, operates appendages, and provides structure, all in an integrated design.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Machine and system designers now have greater options in choosing a motor to meet motion control requirements.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Systems of tiny robots could build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.
Application Briefs: Motion Control
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is home to one of the largest buildings in the world — the massive Vehicle Assembly Building — and also hosts a number of one-of-a-kind facilities. The more...
Briefs: Wearables
These soft robots can be rolled up and carried in a pocket.
Briefs: Motion Control
Conventional fastening mechanisms like nails, bolts, and welds are subject to manufacturing and inspection tolerances, differential thermal growth, and other sources of error that lead to over-constraint, among other...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Today's advanced smart CNC controls allow manufacturers to optimize the manufacturing process right on the factory floor
Products: Motion Control
Encoder
The AI25 hazardous series AI25 encoder from Dynapar (Gurnee, IL) is suited for Class 1 Division 2 applications where a Zone 1 or Division 1 encoder may have previously been specified.
It features both BiSS and SSI...
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Such grippers would be suited for human-robot partnership in assembly lines in the automotive, electronic packaging, and other industries.
Briefs: Energy
The robot is built entirely from smaller robots and can form a robophysical system that can move by itself.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This mechanical gyroscope can advance motion sensing capabilities in consumer-sized applications.
Articles: Communications
5G has the potential to provide connectivity for a range of different uses in manufacturing.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
An engineering model of the VIPER lunar rover is being tested at NASA’s Glenn Research Center. About the size of a golf cart, VIPER is a mobile robot that will roam around the Moon’s South Pole looking...
INSIDER: Motion Control
Cells are observed to “crawl” by attaching themselves to a surface and using these anchor points to push themselves forward (like crawling on the ground). Scientists have identified a different propulsion...
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Webcasts
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Next-Generation Linear and Rotary Stages: When Ultra Precision...
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E/E Architecture Redefined: Building Smarter, Safer, and Scalable...
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Hydrogen Engines Are Heating Up for Heavy Duty
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