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Briefs: Motion Control
Complex locomotion techniques enable the rover to climb hills covered with soft granular material.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Inspired by a coral polyp, this plastic mini robot moves by magnetism and light.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The gripper’s soft, sensitive fingers could enable robots to help with tying knots, wire shaping, or surgical suturing.
Articles: Motion Control
With the emergence of a new generation of ultra-efficient electronic chips, the Wiegand technology is showing significant promise, especially in the exciting area of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
See how a system feeds plants, delivering about 5,417 gallons of water per hour.
Articles: Motion Control
When inspecting products for instance, machine vision is not only faster but also far more accurate.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This approach could be used to cost-effectively make soft robots and wearable technologies.
Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
As an integral part of onshore and offshore drilling, mud pumps circulate drilling fluids to facilitate drilling oil and natural gas wells. Mud pumps stabilize pressure and support the well during the...
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Watch below as the Perseverance rover and its Ingenuity helicopter make their way to Mars.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
In industrial settings, robots often are used for tasks that require repetitive grasping and manipulation of objects. A humanoid hand design that is a soft-hard hybrid flexible gripper can...
INSIDER: Motion Control
NASA Langley has developed a self-latching piezocomposite actuator with power-off, set-and-hold capability. If integrated into an aerodynamic control surface or engine inlet, deflections could be made...
Blog: Aerospace
Mars 2020 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and other NASA experts offer a briefing on this week's launch of the Perseverance rover.
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Can NASA "joystick" the landing of the next Mars rover? A Tech Briefs reader asks our NASA expert.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
We plug in our headphones everyday. Now a robot can perform the task.
Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Will ‘Roboats’ Catch On?
Our July issue of Tech Briefs highlighted a fleet of “roboats” that could someday transport people, collect trash, and self-assemble into floating structures.
The Roboat autonomous robotic boats — rectangular hulls equipped with sensors, thrusters, microcontrollers, GPS modules, cameras, and other hardware —...
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
A tiny underwater robot may someday filter out water contaminants by catching them with its tentacles.
Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The Mars rover Perseverance has a helicopter. Will the rover have to carry it around?
Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Ben Jennet is a PhD student at MIT and a former space research fellow at NASA. He is working with NASA to develop a new kind of aircraft wing that's flexible and changes mid-flight.
Special Reports: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Exploring Mars - July 2020
As NASA prepares this week to launch its latest robotic rover to the Red Planet, we are excited to present this commemorative publication chronicling – through historic images and video – six decades of Mars...Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A fleet of “roboats” could transport people, collect trash, and self-assemble into floating structures.
Briefs: Transportation
Bio-Inspired Propulsion
Frequencies and passive dynamics of vehicles moving in air or water help enhance propulsion performance.
Briefs: AR/AI
An automated system cuts the energy required for training and running neural networks.
Facility Focus: Robotics, Automation & Control
NIBIB is committed to integrating the physical and engineering sciences with the life sciences to advance basic research and medical care.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The device provides quick results and gives healthcare workers more time to treat patients in hospitals and other settings.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Sensors in the hand can actually detect forces being transmitted through the thickness of the robot.
Articles: Photonics/Optics
In-line testing of certain LEDs, using nanosecond pulses, will become more and more relevant with time-of-flight applications.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A new low-cost imaging system could make it easier to track mosquito species that carry disease, enabling a more timely and targeted response.
INSIDER: Motion Control
The smallest motor in the world — consisting of just 16 atoms – measures less than one nanometer or about 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. The rotor rotates on the surface of the...
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
A reader asks NASA experts: How much hardware from the Curiosity rover is being used on the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover?
Top Stories
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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