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Articles: Aerospace
Perseverance is the first leg of a round trip to Mars.
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Facility Focus: Test & Measurement
See how NASA Langley tests a variety of advanced aircraft concepts. including ways to make flying both cleaner and quieter.
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Technology Leaders: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The importance of a proactive and systematic method for collecting machine and process data within a smart manufacturing environment cannot be overstated.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Study shows improvements to chemical sensing chip that aims to quickly and accurately identify drugs and other trace chemicals.
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Articles: Wearables
In-air UAV docking, digital communication via touch, and a computer-vision monitor for diabetes.
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5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
With a smartphone camera, a new diagnostic test provides a positive or negative COVID-19 result in 15 to 30 minutes.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Real-time health monitoring and sensing abilities of robots require soft electronics, but a challenge of using such materials lies in their reliability.
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Products: Test & Measurement
By design, new 3D scanners are motionless during inspection.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A mathematical framework can help engineers make informed decisions about which sensors to use and where they must be positioned in aircraft and other machines.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Sensors need to be flexible, stretchable, biodegradable, safe, and stable for use in the body.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
“Smellicopter” uses a live moth antenna to avoid obstacles and seek out smells.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The stretchable electronics are more stable as they change shape, which could lead to next-generation sensors for healthcare applications.
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Briefs: Software
The algorithms enable drones to quickly switch between hover and forward flight.
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INSIDER: Aerospace
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) and NASA’s Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) recently recorded an image showing three of the four inner rocky planets. The...
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Special Reports: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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Test & Measurement - February 2021
Sensors to search for ancient life on Mars...nano-thermometers that could revolutionize temperature measurement...a major advance in semiconductor testing. These are just a few of the technologies you'll read...

Special Reports: Automotive
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LIDAR Technology - February 2021
LIDAR sensors and systems are the "eyes" of ADAS and autonomous vehicles. Read about the latest advances in this compendium of articles from the editors of Automotive Engineering and Autonomous Vehicle...

Facility Focus: Test & Measurement
Some of the technologies coming from the UT labs include COVID antibody tests, self-watering soil, and the "DRACO" robot.
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Articles: Test & Measurement
Learn about the kinds of wireless meters that can provide precise test data.
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Articles: Data Acquisition
Tech Briefs asks industry experts about cybersecurity, the cloud, wireless devices, and securing a remote workforce.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Disconnect terminal blocks, oscillioscope probes, test modules, and more.
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Briefs: Aerospace
A smart fiber being tested on the International Space Station could be used to develop space dust telescopes and allow astronauts to feel through their pressurized suits.
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Articles: Motion Control
Once confined to the role of machine visualization, modern unified HMI software now delivers better user interfaces, containerization, and remote device management.
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A phenomenon first detected in the solar wind may help solve a long-standing mystery about the sun: why the solar atmosphere is millions of degrees hotter than the...
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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
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.
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Facility Focus: Robotics, Automation & Control
Stanford University’s School of Engineering has been at the forefront of innovation for nearly a century
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The material, commonly found in house paint, can be used in a device to more efficiently process information.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
This patch offers noninvasive and continuous monitoring of various biomarkers for a range of physiological conditions.
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5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The smartwatch app identifies sounds that a user is interested in and sends a friendly buzz and information about the sound.
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Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Could ‘Smellicopters’ Someday Support Search-and-Rescue?
Our second INSIDER story today highlights an innovative combination of autonomous drones and live moth antennae: The “Smellicopter.”

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