Stories
51
0
1230
30
Briefs: Materials
These soft robots can be rolled up and carried in a pocket.
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Today's advanced smart CNC controls allow manufacturers to optimize the manufacturing process right on the factory floor
Products: Test & Measurement
Encoder
The AI25 hazardous series AI25 encoder from Dynapar (Gurnee, IL) is suited for Class 1 Division 2 applications where a Zone 1 or Division 1 encoder may have previously been specified.
It features both BiSS and SSI...
Briefs: Motion Control
Such grippers would be suited for human-robot partnership in assembly lines in the automotive, electronic packaging, and other industries.
Briefs: Energy
The robot is built entirely from smaller robots and can form a robophysical system that can move by itself.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The flat structure morphs into another shape when temperature changes, enabling self-deploying tents or adaptive robotic fins.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Filaments with embedded circuitry can be used to print complex shapes for biomedical and robotic devices.
Facility Focus: Test & Measurement
Explore Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's first space flight complex.
Articles: Communications
5G has the potential to provide connectivity for a range of different uses in manufacturing.
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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: Materials
A fun way to show the robustness of a soft robot? Swat it.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
An upgraded mini robot can leap over obstacles with ease.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This microrobot with soft actuators can crash, fall, and collide without being damaged.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Loosely connected disc-shaped “particles” can push and pull one another, moving together to transport objects.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Various components are used to assemble robots that are more aware of their surroundings.
Briefs: Materials
This microbot can walk on land, swim, and walk underwater.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A system senses tiny changes in shadows on the ground to determine if there’s a moving object coming around the corner.
Blog: Aerospace
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: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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...
Special Reports: Automotive
ADAS/Connected Car - December 2019
Today's Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and connected cars are paving the way for tomorrow's automated vehicles. To help you keep pace with the latest technology developments, we present this...Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The algorithm speeds up the planning process that robots use to adjust their grip on objects.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The technology can be used in commercial motors, robotic systems, and hybrid and electric vehicles.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A synthetic skin enables robots to sense their own bodies and surroundings
Briefs: Motion Control
A technology uses a combination of WiFi signals and accelerometer technology to track devices in near-real-time.
Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Sensing technology will help to transform manufacturing floors into the connected factories of the future.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
“Cobots” allow companies of almost any size to automate processes that were previously out of reach.
Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Would You Own a Robot Pet?
At the CES Unveiled kickoff event last week, Sony demonstrated Aibo, a social robotic pet. The technology, which will make the trip to CES 2020 in Las Vegas, makes dog noises, responds to commands, and uses cameras to recognize specific owners and their patterns. Take a look at Aibo on our Tech Briefs Instagram.
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
Webcasts
Upcoming Webinars: Semiconductors & ICs
Advantages of Smart Power Distribution Unit Design for Automotive...
Upcoming Webinars: Automotive
Quiet, Please: NVH Improvement Opportunities in the Early Design...
Upcoming Webinars: Test & Measurement
From Spreadsheets to Insights: Fast Data Analysis Without Complex...
Upcoming Webinars: Electronics & Computers
Cooling a New Generation of Aerospace and Defense Embedded...
Upcoming Webinars: AR/AI
Beyond AI-Copy-Paste Engineering: Advanced AI-Integration Success...
Upcoming Webinars: Test & Measurement
