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Access the latest developments used in sensor-related technologies. Learn more about essential applications for specialized sensors and durable designs for extreme conditions.

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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Empa researchers were able to demonstrate real-time acoustic monitoring of laser weld seams.
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Application Briefs: Software
Predictive maintenance is poised to become much more widely adopted, and that will help to boost productivity in a time when we really need it.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Self-powering, color-changing humidity sensors are applicable to various fields including smart windows, health care, and safety management.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
With accelerated time from design to production, specialized foil sensor arrays will be expanding to many new areas.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This system encodes information in twisting beams of light.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This method provides a key step toward quantum computers, sensors, and distributed quantum information.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Pop-up miniature electronics based on the Japanese art of kirigami can be repeatedly compressed.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This method of machine learning could make communications in the unlicensed bands much more efficient.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This technique can be used by people who are paralyzed or have neurodegenerative diseases.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Applications include high-speed communications, networking, and sensing.
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Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See how one company reached out to NASA with an offer to develop a custom sensor for the Mars 2020 mission rover.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
Laser light induces ultrasonic vibrations in a sample that can be used to image cells, blood vessels, and tissues.
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Briefs: Defense
The sensor could provide a way to detect communication signals over the entire radio frequency from 1 to 100 GHz.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Smart devices measure electrical signals from the skin, indicating stress levels and emotions.
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Facility Focus: Test & Measurement
Stennis now is testing RS-25 rocket engines for the Space Launch System (SLS) that will carry humans back to the Moon.
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Articles: AR/AI
An A/C alternative, AI that sharpens blurry images, and a NASA energy harvester.
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Briefs: Wearables
Bioactive inks printed on wearable textiles can map conditions over the entire surface of the body.
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Briefs: Wearables
The material was designed specifically for biomedical or wearable technologies, since sweat and volatile organic compounds evaporate away from the skin.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The “E-dermis” will enable amputees to perceive through prosthetic fingertips.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This neurostimulator could deliver fine-tuned treatments to patients with diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s.
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Products: Imaging
Foam gasket tapes, data analytics software, ceramic tape, and more.
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Carnegie Mellon researcher Lerrel Pinto wants to prove that sound can be a valuable asset for robots.
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Deciding between edge computing and cloud computing? Make sure to consider these four major factors, says our industry expert.
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Blog: Motion Control
A reader asks: How can self-driving car manufacturers guarantee safety when snow, ice, or mud impair a vision system?
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Blog: Electronics & Computers
Dr. James Rees is spending the time in his lab testing sensors made from bacteria.
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INSIDER: Research Lab
A team of Brown University physicists has developed a new type of compact, ultra-sensitive magnetometer, 20 times more sensitive than many traditional sensors. The new...
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Researchers have developed a new way to build power efficient and programmable integrated switching units on a silicon photonics chip. The new technology is...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers have made it possible to remotely determine the temperature beneath the surface of certain materials using a new technique they call depth...
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INSIDER: Data Acquisition
In a potential breakthrough in wearable sensing technology, researchers from Cornell and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, have designed a wrist- mounted device that continuously tracks the...
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