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INSIDER: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The soft robotic models are patient-specific and could help clinicians zero in on the best implant for an individual.
Briefs: Motion Control
Accomplishing motion control with digitally commanded electric motors is a responsive, precise, and energy-efficient approach suitable for a wide range of applications.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This system can track the motion of the entire body with a small sensory network.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Scientists have developed a novel concept for a lunar navigation system based on the reverse-ephemeris technique.
Briefs: Aerospace
This novel flightpath control system exploits the dihedral effect to control the bank angle of the vehicle by modulating sideslip.
INSIDER: Medical
First, they walked. Then, they saw the light. Now, miniature biological robots have gained a new trick: remote control. These hybrid “eBiobots” are the first to...
Quiz: Robotics, Automation & Control
How much do you know about medical robots, a market expected to reach $22.89 billion by 2030? Find out with this quiz.
Special Reports: Defense
Unmanned Systems - February 2023
Unmanned helicopters take off...AI-powered machines tackle dangerous missions...autonomous robots become curious...rogue drones meet their match. Read about these and other advances in air, ground, and...Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The sensor can be stretched up to 50 percent with almost the same sensing performance.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Real-time health monitoring and sensing abilities of robots require soft electronics but a challenge of using such materials lies in their reliability.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Research reveals that expertly timed lasers shined at an approaching LIDAR system can create a blind spot in front of the vehicle.
Blog: Motion Control
A flapping-wing robot that can land autonomously on a horizontal perch using a claw-like mechanism.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See 10 AR/VR technologies from CES 2023.
Technology & Society: RF & Microwave Electronics
SprayBox can target individual weeds and crops at a 20-per-second rate and then spray them at a millimeter’s accuracy.
Quiz: Design
The chances are very high that you're familiar with GPS. However, do you know how it came to be? Its trials and tribulations? Take this quiz to find out.
5 Ws: Materials
A team of researchers at Cornell Engineering has developed a soft robot that can detect when and where it was damaged — and then heal itself on the spot.
Special Reports: Propulsion
Space Technology - January 2023
Read about robot construction workers on the moon, the first commercial space station, what's next for the James Webb Space Telescope, and much more in this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech...
Briefs: Software
The software can be integrated with existing hardware to aid people using robotic prosthetics or exoskeletons.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The model allows robots to ask clarifying questions to soldiers.
Briefs: Motion Control
This mechanism improves rotordynamic stability in turbomachinery.
Briefs: AR/AI
Researchers have been able to successfully teach micro-robots how to swim via deep reinforcement learning, marking a substantial leap in the progression of micro-swimming capability.
Briefs: Unmanned Systems
The robots will be challenged to carry out work too dangerous for humans.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
In-space and planetary surface assembly for human exploration is a challenging domain that encompasses various technological thrusts to support human missions.
Quiz: Motion Control
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.
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and the University of California, Berkeley, have designed a robotic system that enables a low-cost and relatively small legged...
INSIDER: Motion Control
Hummingbirds occupy a unique place in nature: They fly like insects but have the musculoskeletal system of birds. According to Bo Cheng, Associate Professor in...
INSIDER: Motion Control
Combustion engines, propellors, and hydraulic pumps are examples of fluidic devices — instruments that utilize fluids to perform certain functions, such as generating power or...
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Blog: Lighting
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INSIDER: Energy
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Quiz: Energy
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Microscopic Swimming Machines that Can Sense, Respond to Surroundings
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