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Articles: Motion Control
By consolidating tasks traditionally performed by multiple devices into a single, high-performing controller, manufacturers can improve operations.
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Articles: Software
Standard commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) connectors continue to be a great resource for quick prototypes and reference designs.
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Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
Accelerometers, actuators, hexapods, and more.
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Technology Leaders: Materials
For nearly 50 years, engineers in the electronics, aerospace, defense, medical device, and transportation industries have relied on Parylene coatings.
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Special Reports: Aerospace
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Aerospace & Defense - October 2020
In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology, you'll learn about NASA's return to the moon with Apollo's twin sister Artemis, how autonomous...

Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This method could benefit next-generation electronics.
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Briefs: Communications
These non-reciprocal devices on a compact chip pave the way for applications from two-way wireless to quantum computing.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Fully integrated flexible electronics made of magnetic sensors and organic circuits open the path towards the development of electronic skin.
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Briefs: Energy
This method integrates 3D plasmonic nanoarrays onto stickers that adhere to any surface.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
People could monitor their own health conditions by picking up a pencil and drawing a bioelectronic device on their skin.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This approach could engineer quantum materials atom-by-atom for new electronic, magnetic, and sensing applications.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A metal-organic framework does not contain cost-intensive raw materials and can be produced in bulk.
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NASA Spinoff: Test & Measurement
NASA's UAS traffic management expertise leads to advances in drone navigation.
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Articles: Imaging
Nanowire masks, underwater imaging, and tiny 3D-printed block that repair bone breaks.
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Briefs: Medical
This technique may enable speedy, on-demand design of softer, safer neural devices.
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Briefs: Materials
Tiny aircraft that weigh as much as a fruit fly could serve as Martian atmospheric probes.
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Briefs: Transportation
This method could impact optical technologies such as smartphone cameras, biosensors, or autonomous vision for robots and self-driving cars.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Torque limiters protect against damage and downtime caused by machine overloads.
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Special Reports: Electronics & Computers
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Electronics Innovations - October 2020
In this compendium of articles from the editors of Tech Briefs magazine, discover how advances in electronic components are enabling game-changing applications in mobile healthcare/wearables, autonomous...

INSIDER: Design
Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed the world’s smallest ultrasound detector. Based on miniaturized...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The proliferation and miniaturization of electronics in devices, wearables, medical implants, and other applications has...
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INSIDER: Internet of Things
For a long time, something important has been regularly neglected in electronics. If you want to make electronic components smaller and smaller, you also need the right insulator materials. This is...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers at the University of Houston report that they have designed and produced a smart electronic skin and a medical robotic hand capable of assessing vital diagnostic data...
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Question of the Week: Transportation
Do Software Advancements Make You Feel Safe in an Autonomous Vehicle?
Our lead story today features self-driving car software that prevents accidents by understanding and anticipating safe traffic behaviors.
INSIDER: Imaging
For planned robotic and crewed missions to the Moon and Mars, NASA is developing and testing precise landing and hazard-avoidance technologies. A combination of laser sensors, a camera, a high-speed...
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
New software from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) wants to predict all traffic possibilities, so that self-driving vehicles will never get into accidents.
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Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Can Courtesy Be Programmed Into Self-Driving Cars?
During a recent webcast, a Tech Briefs reader raised an interesting question about self-driving cars:
Blog: AR/AI
A new modeling tool from USC engineers generates automatic indicators when data and predictions from AI algorithms are trustworthy.
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Podcasts: Imaging
Before delivery drones start carrying packages (and passenger drones start delivering ourselves), engineers will need to keep refining an unmanned aircraft's ability to navigate and...
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