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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Biobots based on muscle cells can swim at unprecedented velocities.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The system creates accurate defect standards for in-situ inspection systems.
INSIDER: Motion Control
Researchers at Caltech have built a bipedal robot that combines walking with flying to create a new type of locomotion, making it exceptionally nimble and capable of...
Briefs: Software
The algorithm calculates time-optimal trajectories that fully consider the drones’ limitations.
UpFront: Robotics, Automation & Control
NASA's satellite data reveals the pandemic's effect on our atmosphere, and a team of shoebox-sized rover scouts is prepped for the lunar surface.
Application Briefs: Aerospace
A mobile robot will go to the South Pole of the Moon — with help from radiation-hardened avionics.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
UAVs can land on moving unmanned ground vehicles without GPS.
Facility Focus: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Purdue University is helping to create better battery monitoring, stretchable biosensors, allergen detectors, and more.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
It can also find the nearest electric wall outlet to recharge without human assistance.
Articles: Imaging
To make robots truly see, you need the right software.
Articles: Test & Measurement
As more manufacturers implement robots, hand guidance tools and techniques will continue to expand in functionality and become even easier to use.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
A robotic hand system was developed at MIT that can reorient over 2,000 diverse objects with a hand facing both upward and downward, in a step toward more human-like manipulation. This...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers from Harvard University developed a new approach in which robotic exosuit assistance can be calibrated to an individual and adapt to a variety of real-world walking tasks in a...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
An autonomous robotic rover, Benthic Rover II, has provided new insight into life 13,100 feet beneath the surface of the ocean. The data collected are fundamental to understanding the...
Blog: Transportation
A reader asks a simulation expert: How do you compensate for the interaction of rain or snow storms on lidar sensors?
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
The third flight of SLS and Orion will carry the first woman and first person of color to the Moon.
Articles: Motion Control
Av four-legged soft robot walks, without requiring any electronics.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
This robotic arm fuses data from a camera and antenna to locate and retrieve items buried under piles and completely out of view.
Articles: Transportation
See this year's product designs from engineers, students, and entrepreneurs worldwide.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Incorporating semiconductor components, microscopic robots are made to walk with standard electronic signals.
Briefs: Imaging
An off-the-shelf USB camera captures the shadows made by hand gestures on the robot’s skin.
Facility Focus: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The "ERDC" helps solve problems in civil and military engineering, geospatial sciences, water resources, and environmental sciences.
Articles: Defense
A vision-based control algorithm saves a quadrotor after the complete loss of a single motor.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Forget puzzles — In the early days of quarantine, Notre Dame professor and robotics engineer Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin used the time at home to put together robots.
Special Reports: RF & Microwave Electronics
RF & Microwave Electronics - October 2021
In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Aerospace & Defense Technology and Tech Briefs, read about how advances in RF electronics are enabling new applications in satellite and...Briefs: Motion Control
Artificial intelligence helps train robots to work together to move an object around two obstacles and through a narrow door in computer simulations.
Products: Electronics & Computers
Motion controllers, electric cylinders, cobot brakes, and more.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In a collapsed building or on rough terrain, a robot could balance itself and move forward with just its feet.
Top Stories
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
2025 Holiday Gift Guide for Engineers: Tech, Tools, and Gadgets
INSIDER: Research Lab
Scientists Create Superconducting Semiconductor Material
Blog: Software
Quiz: Materials
Blog: Aerospace
Tech Briefs Wrapped 2025: Top 10 Technology Stories
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Webcasts
Upcoming Webinars: AR/AI
The Real Impact of AR and AI in the Industrial Equipment Industry
Upcoming Webinars: Motion Control
Next-Generation Linear and Rotary Stages: When Ultra Precision...
Upcoming Webinars: Energy
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Podcasts: Medical
How Wearables Are Enhancing Smart Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Power
SAE Automotive Podcast: Solid-State Batteries
Podcasts: Power
