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Briefs: Motion Control
The integrated tool eliminates the need for manual operators or additional custom fixtures.
Briefs: Motion Control
This system can track the motion of the entire body with a small sensory network.
Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
New online tools — coupled with online libraries of pre-selected and tested component specifications — simplify machine design.
Briefs: Materials
A technique enables manufacturing of minuscule robots by interlocking multiple materials in a complex way.
Articles: Imaging
Once confined to the role of machine visualization, modern unified HMI software now delivers better user interfaces, containerization, and remote device management.
Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Industrial robots, motor disconnect switches, position sensors, and more.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This optical-based device measures position, velocity, and torque.
Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
“The disruption promised by Industry 4.0 has already begun,” says Jason Melcher from the aerospace manufacturing company Ingersoll.
Briefs: Materials
A new method of linking materials with unique mechanical properties could enable robots made of robots.
5 Ws: Wearables
The battery can be used in flexible, stretchable electronics for wearables as well as soft robotics.
NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
With a technique first used at NASA, researchers are making glasses that can improve your concentration.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
A new method manufactures complex shapeshifters for soft robots and biomedical implants.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
These nanomaterial strain sensors are ten times more sensitive when measuring minute movements compared to existing technology.
Articles: Data Acquisition
Tech Briefs asks industry experts about cybersecurity, the cloud, wireless devices, and securing a remote workforce.
Facility Focus: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Some of the technologies coming from the UT labs include COVID antibody tests, self-watering soil, and the "DRACO" robot.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
NASA-funded research by Clemson University scientists could lead to the creation of lighter, faster-charging batteries suitable for powering a spacesuit or even a Mars rover.
Briefs: Wearables
A stretchable system can harvest energy from human breathing and motion.
INSIDER: Motion Control
University of Pittsburgh researchers have utilized a catalytic reaction that causes a two-dimensional, chemically coated sheet to spontaneously “morph” into a three-dimensional gear.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
The Tethered permanently shadowed Region EXplorer (T-REX) rover, designed and built by a team of Michigan Technological University students – is designed to provide reliable power and data to other...
Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Will Robotics and Automation Lead to a Greater Appreciation of Nature?
Our lead INSIDER story today focused on the environmental impacts of robotics and automation.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A survey of over 170 experts assessed the opportunities and challenges that drones, robots, and autonomous systems could have for urban nature and green spaces.
Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Would You Use a 'Twining' Robotic Gripper?
Our lead INSIDER story today focused on a twining robotic gripper that its inventor says is especially effective at grabbing thin objects like pencils, paintbrushes, and even a straightened paperclip.
Products: Electronics & Computers
Radar sensors, cameras, RF processing systems, and more.
Articles: Energy
A malaria-test "bandage"; underwater navigation via sound; and a biodegrading, implantable sensor.
Briefs: Materials
The material, commonly found in house paint, can be used in a device to more efficiently process information.
Facility Focus: Aerospace
Stanford University’s School of Engineering has been at the forefront of innovation for nearly a century
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
As engineering professor Mable Fok saw how the pole beans in her garden wrapped tightly around any objects nearby, she had an idea:
What if a robotic gripper could do the same thing?
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
USC researchers have developed a method that could allow robots to learn complicated new tasks, like setting a table or driving a car, from observing a small number of demonstrations.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Scientists from the U.S. Army and MIT created a new way to link materials with unique mechanical properties, opening up the possibility of future military robots made of robots. The method unifies...
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Blog: Lighting
A Stretchable OLED that Can Maintain Most of Its Luminescence
Blog: Energy
Batteries that Can Withstand the Cold
INSIDER: Energy
Advancing All-Solid-State Batteries
Quiz: Energy
Blog: Physical Sciences
Blog: Materials
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