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UpFront: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA's Landslide Reporter, a smarter cement, and a way to track microplastics in the ocean.
Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This episode of our Tech Briefs podcast series Here’s an Idea™ explores a variety of new-and-improved hearing aids, from $5 “do-it-yourself” devices to advanced systems that monitor brain waves.
Blog: Automotive
A self-driving algorithm guides an autonomous vehicle through a traffic scenario that many of us know well: navigating traffic on a crowded, narrow street.
Facility Focus: Wearables
Duke Engineering supports clinical ultrasound imaging, restoration of hearing by cochlear implant, megapixel photography, and metamaterials.
Briefs: Lighting
This could lead to the commercial development of smart glass, with applications ranging from imaging to advanced robotics.
Briefs: Wearables
The app detects fluid behind the eardrum using a piece of paper and a smartphone’s microphone and speaker.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Microspheres are used in wind tunnel experiments to monitor airflow, to stain biological samples, and in time-delayed drug release.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This wearable device is placed on the skin to measure a variety of body responses, from electrical to biomechanical signals.
Briefs: Unmanned Systems
The system uses infrasonic acoustics for weather monitoring and for drone or UAV activity.
Briefs: Aerospace
Dangerous “butterfly” landmines can be detected using low-cost drones and infrared cameras.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
These tiny aerial robots can operate in cramped spaces and withstand collisions.
Blog: Software
The Prediction Model for Flashover, or P-Flash, estimates where flashover explosions could occur.
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
North Carolina State University engineers continue to improve the efficiency of a flexible device worn on the wrist that harvests heat energy from the human body to monitor health.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The technology uses tactile sensing to identify objects underground.
Special Reports: Internet of Things
Smart Factory/IIoT - June 2021
Factories are getting "smarter" and more automated by the day, thanks to advances in AI, connectivity, controls, and sensors. In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Sensor...Application Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Editor Ed Brown explores what’s ahead for MEMS automobile navigation systems.
Products: Test & Measurement
High-precision medical sensors, battery-cell mappers, signal conditioners, and more.
Technology Leaders: Electronics & Computers
Ultra-thin piezoresistive sensors can be used in both R&D and as embedded components to develop safer, longer-lasting lithium-ion battery technologies.
Application Briefs: Imaging
Over the last 75 years, sensors have played an increasingly significant part in the advancement of medicine.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The MPS Flammable Gas Sensor can detect and identify the concentrations of 12 of the most common combustible gases,
Articles: Test & Measurement
MEMS sensors have been around for a long time, but requests from the market for new applications are driving upgrades in the technology.
Technology Leaders: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Sensors play a pivotal role in solving critical business challenges.
Q&A: Test & Measurement
New autonomous robotic devices can survey hazardous or difficult-to-reach sites faster than humans.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A smartphone, combined with nanoscale porous silicon, enables inexpensive, simple, home diagnostics.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The design could contribute to various applications in the robotics field such as smart prosthetics and human-robot interaction.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Color changes of gold nanoparticles under the skin reveal concentration changes of substances in the body.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Researchers at KU Leuven have succeeded for the first time in measuring brain waves directly via a cochlear implant.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Recent advances could make it feasible to deploy networks of methane sensors to detect this greenhouse gas at large facilities.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Researchers have developed a millimeter-thick accelerometer.
Top Stories
Blog: Energy
A Proof‑of‑Concept Quantum Battery
Blog: Design
Reciprocal Energy: A New Model for Grid-Friendly Data Centers
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
NASA's Space Computing Breakthrough Powers Future Missions
Quiz: Manned Systems
How Much Do You Know About Aircraft Safety?
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
This New Quantum Sensor Measures 3D Direction of RF Electromagnetic Fields
Blog: Design
Brain-Inspired Memristors Could Slash AI Energy Use by 70 Percent
Webcasts
Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
From Spec to Scale: High-Precision Grinding Strategies for Tight-Tolerance...
Editorial Webinars: Defense
High-Speed Connectivity for Next Generation Aerospace & Defense Systems
Webinars: Electronics & Computers
Electronics Digital Twins: From Concept to Scalable Platform
Webinars: Software
Architecting the Future: Why Systems Engineering is the Backbone of SDVs
Webinars: Automotive
Engineering Fluid Conveyance Systems for Alternative Fuel On-Highway Vehicles
Editorial Webinars: Materials
Next-Generation Materials for Medical Devices: From Smart Polymers to...
