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Access your resource for innovative automation technologies and applications. Find technical briefs and applications that play an essential role in today's age of automation in industrial manufacturing and medical industries.

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Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Aerospace & Defense Sensing - April 2023
NASA is applying sensor technologies to create a state-of-the-art dexterous humanoid robot, to monitor the structural health of inflatable habitats designed for Mars, and to test the first all-electric...

Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
See the products of tomorrow--today.
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Briefs: Software
Interactive program aids motion planning for environments with obstacles.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Robotic vision has come a long way, reaching a level of sophistication with applications in complex and demanding tasks, such as autonomous driving and object manipulation.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Researchers have developed the first ethical algorithm to fairly distribute the levels of risk rather than operating on an either/or principle.
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Briefs: Design
The piezoelectric “meta-bot” is capable of propulsion, movement, sensing, and decision-making.
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Articles: Unmanned Systems
AV development will only become more important in the marketplace as the competition to produce new and advanced vehicle features continues to mount.
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Articles: Software
Incorporating AI into a cobot-based application using a standard teach pendant or graphical user tool has been challenging and time-consuming, even for the most dedicated engineers.
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Products: Motion Control
See the new products for April 2023, including combustion valves, a linear motion system, an autonomous mobile robot, and more.
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Application Briefs: Design
As battery manufacturers work to rapidly add new production capacity, they face a challenge in compressing the time it takes to build new production lines.
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Articles: Motion Control
Automate, to be held from May 22-25 in Detroit, MI, will provide attendees the latest in cutting-edge robotics, vision, artificial intelligence, motion control, and more.
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Articles: AR/AI
As manufacturing automation rapidly advances, conveyors are not only being used for transportation but also accurate material (or product) placement.
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INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
A new virtual testing environment breaks the ‘curse of rarity’ for autonomous vehicle emergency decision-making.
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Quiz: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Labor shortages have caused farmers and food manufacturers to increasingly utilize agricultural robots for farming. Take this quiz to learn more.
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INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Some 30,000 people in the U.S. are affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neurodegenerative condition that damages cells in...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This spring, a small army of Cornell University-developed PhytoPatholoBots (PPB) will be deployed to four grape breeding programs across the U.S. on a mission to guide the global...
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INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
The soft robotic models are patient-specific and could help clinicians zero in on the best implant for an individual.
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Briefs: Motion Control
Accomplishing motion control with digitally commanded electric motors is a responsive, precise, and energy-efficient approach suitable for a wide range of applications.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Scientists have developed a novel concept for a lunar navigation system based on the reverse-ephemeris technique.
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Quiz: Medical
How much do you know about medical robots, a market expected to reach $22.89 billion by 2030? Find out with this quiz.
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Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Unmanned Systems - February 2023
Unmanned helicopters take off...AI-powered machines tackle dangerous missions...autonomous robots become curious...rogue drones meet their match. Read about these and other advances in air, ground, and...

Videos of the Month: Design
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Research reveals that expertly timed lasers shined at an approaching LIDAR system can create a blind spot in front of the vehicle.
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Blog: Propulsion
A flapping-wing robot that can land autonomously on a horizontal perch using a claw-like mechanism.
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Blog: Connectivity
See 10 AR/VR technologies from CES 2023.
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5 Ws: Robotics, Automation & Control
A team of researchers at Cornell Engineering has developed a soft robot that can detect when and where it was damaged — and then heal itself on the spot.
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Special Reports: Power
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Space Technology - January 2023
Read about robot construction workers on the moon, the first commercial space station, what's next for the James Webb Space Telescope, and much more in this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech...

Articles: Motion Control
The products of tomorrow.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This mechanism improves rotordynamic stability in turbomachinery.
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