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Briefs: Design
In-space and planetary surface assembly for human exploration is a challenging domain that encompasses various technological thrusts to support human missions.
Quiz: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Factories are becoming more and more automated and integrated. How much do you know about what factory automation actually is? Take this quiz to find out.
Quiz: Robotics, Automation & Control
How much do you know about e-skin? Find out with the quiz below.
Briefs: Unmanned Systems
A new robotic system fuses visual information and radio-frequency signals to efficiently find hidden items buried under a pile of objects.
Briefs: Aerospace
Innovators at NASA Johnson Space Center have designed an Active Debris Removal Vehicle that can remove large orbital debris from low-Earth orbit.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University believe they have developed the first AI pilot that enables autonomous aircraft to navigate a crowded airspace.
Briefs: AR/AI
The new system learns directly from visual inputs to let a robot with a two-fingered gripper see, simulate, and shape doughy objects.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A team has installed electronic “brains” on solar-powered robots that are 100 to 250 micrometers in size so that they can walk autonomously.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers designed a new type of soft robotic gripper that uses a collection of thin tentacles to entangle and ensnare objects.
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Programming a robot for small series production activities with great diversity involves many trajectories, which is time-consuming.
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A developer needs confidence that the compiler will not introduce errors into the design.
Quiz: Transportation
See how much you know about automated automobiles with this quiz.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) announced that it has developed a gripper capable of all gripping movements, inspired by elephant trunks. It mimics how elephants...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
If you’ve ever played the claw game at an arcade, you know how hard it is to grab and hold onto objects using robotic grippers. Imagine how much more nerve-wracking that game would be if,...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
The unassuming Pacific mole crab, Emerita analoga, is about to make some waves. UC Berkeley researchers have debuted a unique robot inspired by this burrowing crustacean that may someday help evaluate the soil...
Briefs: Motion Control
Equipment and test system designers need Ethernet devices that outperform consumer-grade components, while remaining easy to use.
Special Reports: Aerospace
Additive Manufacturing - November 2022
AM/3D Printing is fundamentally changing how products are prototyped and produced in aerospace, medical, electronics, and many other fields. To help you keep pace with the latest advances, we present this...Special Reports: Medical
Medical Robotics - November 2022
"Millirobots" swimming in your bloodstream...soft robots you can print on demand...cobots hard at work in the test lab. Read about these and other innovative technologies in this compendium of recent articles...Special Reports: Transportation
Automotive Test & Simulation - November 2022
In this compendium of articles from the editors of Automotive Engineering magazine, learn about the latest simulation and test technologies for ADAS, EV batteries, NVH, vehicle cybersecurity, and...Quiz: Software
Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is gradually increasing across industries. How much do you know about AI in manufacturing? Take this quiz to find out.
Blog: Unmanned Systems
Engineers have installed tiny electronic “brains” on solar-powered robots so that the machines can walk autonomously, sans external control.
NASA Spinoff: Unmanned Systems
Aquanaut, built on lessons from NASA’s robot astronaut, will cut costs for ocean industries.
Blog: Lighting Technology
Engineers developed soft devices containing algae that glow when under mechanical stress —perfect for building soft robots.
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) continues to enable exciting scientific advances that help us better understand the universe.
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Robots have been widely used in industry for many years, but cobots, or collaborative robots, are a more recent arrival to the market.
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
We humans are adept at using audio and visual cues for communication while carrying out collaborative tasks. Now researchers are aiming to implement gestural interaction in a networked system of robots.
INSIDER: Transportation
Robotic eyes on autonomous vehicles could improve pedestrian safety, according to a new study at the University of Tokyo. Participants played out scenarios in virtual reality (VR) and had to decide...
Quiz: Robotics, Automation & Control
How much do you know about humanoid robots?
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Roose’s Chocolate World, based in Belgium, is using an automated solution, “ChocoMatic,” that doesn’t break the bank.
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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