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Briefs: Aerospace
The domino effect is used to design deployable systems that expand quickly with a small push and are stable and locked into place after deployment.
Briefs: Communications
The technique could be used to improve navigation for robots, drones, or pedestrians.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
This instrument has applications in medical equipment, robotics, and satellites.
Special Reports: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Medical Manufacturing and Outsourcing - May 2020
How are advances in automation/robotics, welding, 3D printing, and other fabrication technologies shaping the future of medical device manufacturing? Find out in this Special Report – a...Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
By taking a closer look at the delta deposits on Mars, Stanford University researchers concluded that the Jezero Crater is still the best place to search for signs of life on Mars.
Question of the Week: Transportation
Will 'Metal-Air Scavengers' Power Vehicles and Robots?
Penn Engineering researchers have introduced a "metal-air scavenger" vehicle, which gets energy not from a battery, but from breaking chemical bonds in the aluminum surface it travels over. The technology, which works like both a battery and an energy harvester, has 13 times more energy density...
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In just three weeks, the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at UC Berkeley built a robotic COVID-19 laboratory.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
The newest edition of NASA's small, foldable robots successfully traversed rugged terrain in the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Robots are in high demand as medical professionals seek hands-free ways to disinfect environments and contain the spread of coronavirus and COVID-19.
Briefs: Automotive
Applications include homeland security, vehicle anti-collision systems, telecommunications systems, and industrial instrumentation.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The newest PLCs can directly access Internet resources, much like a mobile device, to obtain information for improving operations.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
These materials can be used in soft robotics, self-healing electronics, and medical devices.
Facility Focus: Materials
See some of the world-changing tools and technologies launched by Caltech scientists, from earthquake monitoring to helping the blind see.
Articles: Test & Measurement
Manufacturers are beginning to realize the same benefits by cloud-connecting their equipment and processes on the shop floor.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
As advancements in technology continue to define how pneumatic or electromechanical linear devices lift, move, or place a load, the requirements of excellent closed-loop positioning and accuracy greatly increase
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Robot-assisted surgery has advanced dramatically over the past decade in almost every surgical sub-specialty. Robot-assisted surgery is usually performed using surgical robot systems that involve...
Briefs: Motion Control
Square trusses replace round for enhanced strength and robotics compatibility.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This technology could help control driverless cars and automated warehouses.
INSIDER: Motion 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...
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Massive manufacturing bots have evolved into something new — collaborative robots.
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
The new Mars Rover Name is Perseverance, thanks to a suggestion from Virginia 7th grader Alex Mather.
Briefs: Motion Control
This technology could impact new directions in robotics design.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The device retrains patients with spinal cord injury to sit more stably and gain an expanded active sitting workspace.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The new arm design enables unmanned aerial vehicles to fly in windy conditions.
Blog: AR/AI
See what the SuperCam will do when it arrives on Mars in 2021.
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A bulk-machined “Pop-Up” MEMS process was developed for creating mesoscale machines up to several centimeters in dimension.
INSIDER: Medical
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...
Briefs: Motion Control
Such machines, only a few tens of micrometers across, could be used in the human body to perform small operations.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This robot “blood” stores energy, transmits force, operates appendages, and provides structure, all in an integrated design.
Top Stories
Blog: Lighting
A Stretchable OLED that Can Maintain Most of Its Luminescence
INSIDER: Energy
Advancing All-Solid-State Batteries
Blog: Power
My Opinion: We Need More Power Soon — Is Nuclear the Answer?
Quiz: Energy
Blog: Lighting Technology
Microscopic Swimming Machines that Can Sense, Respond to Surroundings
Blog: Data Acquisition
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