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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This technology could impact new directions in robotics design.
Blog: Test & Measurement
See what the SuperCam will do when it arrives on Mars in 2021.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
A bulk-machined “Pop-Up” MEMS process was developed for creating mesoscale machines up to several centimeters in dimension.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Rutgers University engineers have developed an automated way to produce polymers, making it much easier to create advanced materials aimed at improving human health. While a human researcher may...
Articles: Connectivity
5G has the potential to provide connectivity for a range of different uses in manufacturing.
Facility Focus: Test & Measurement
Explore Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's first space flight complex.
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Today's advanced smart CNC controls allow manufacturers to optimize the manufacturing process right on the factory floor
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The robot is built entirely from smaller robots and can form a robophysical system that can move by itself.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Filaments with embedded circuitry can be used to print complex shapes for biomedical and robotic devices.
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: Materials
The flat structure morphs into another shape when temperature changes, enabling self-deploying tents or adaptive robotic fins.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
These soft robots can be rolled up and carried in a pocket.
Briefs: Aerospace
Systems of tiny robots could build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
This robot “blood” stores energy, transmits force, operates appendages, and provides structure, all in an integrated design.
Briefs: Motion Control
Such machines, only a few tens of micrometers across, could be used in the human body to perform small operations.
Blog: Materials
Cornell researcher T.J. Wallin explains what's so cool about a robot that sweats.
INSIDER: Motion 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...
Blog: Nanotechnology
A fun way to show the robustness of a soft robot? Swat it.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Various components are used to assemble robots that are more aware of their surroundings.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
This microrobot with soft actuators can crash, fall, and collide without being damaged.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A system senses tiny changes in shadows on the ground to determine if there’s a moving object coming around the corner.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This microbot can walk on land, swim, and walk underwater.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
An upgraded mini robot can leap over obstacles with ease.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Loosely connected disc-shaped “particles” can push and pull one another, moving together to transport objects.
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
If a satellite breaks in orbit, there's not much that can be done. A professor envisions a new idea for refueling and repair.
Blog: Internet of Things
Tech Briefs in 2019 celebrated historic NASA anniversaries, new ways to power electronics, and innovative hacks of our “smartest” technologies.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers developed a microrobot that measures a few micrometers across and resembles a paper bird made with origami. It flaps its wings or bends its neck and retracts its head via...
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
“Cobots” allow companies of almost any size to automate processes that were previously out of reach.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Sensing technology will help to transform manufacturing floors into the connected factories of the future.
Top Stories
Blog: Lighting
A Stretchable OLED that Can Maintain Most of Its Luminescence
News: Energy
INSIDER: Energy
Advancing All-Solid-State Batteries
Blog: Energy
My Opinion: We Need More Power Soon — Is Nuclear the Answer?
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Aerial Microrobots That Can Match a Bumblebee's Speed
Blog: Communications
Microscopic Swimming Machines that Can Sense, Respond to Surroundings
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