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Products: Test & Measurement
Positioning devices, vibration transmitters, brushless DC motors, and more.
Briefs: Motion Control
The gripper’s soft, sensitive fingers could enable robots to help with tying knots, wire shaping, or surgical suturing.
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
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).
Briefs: Wearables
This approach could be used to cost-effectively make soft robots and wearable technologies.
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
We plug in our headphones everyday. Now a robot can perform the task.
Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
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 —...
Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
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...Products: Electronics & Computers
Photoelectric sensors, cable connectors, power monitors, and USB3 cameras.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA's Dry Goods Delivery System, a lung-heart sensor on a chip, and more.
Application Briefs: Materials
NASA needed help accurately measuring Earth-reflected sunlight.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Sensors in the hand can actually detect forces being transmitted through the thickness of the robot.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This work potentially opens the door to advances like more energy-efficient electronic devices.
Articles: Semiconductors & ICs
A new iteration of sCMOS camera technology promises even higher sensitivity than prior designs.
Articles: Test & Measurement
In-line testing of certain LEDs, using nanosecond pulses, will become more and more relevant with time-of-flight applications.
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
New surveillance sensors are able to perform better than ever under unpredictable and dynamic lighting conditions.
Blog: Imaging
The Human Embodied Autonomous Thermostat, or “HEAT," uses cameras to identify facial temperature, and adjust the room's air accordingly.
Blog: Aerospace
A reader asks NASA experts: How much hardware from the Curiosity rover is being used on the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover?
Special Reports: Automotive
ADAS/Connected Car - June 2020
Today's Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and connected cars are paving the way for tomorrow's automated vehicles. To help you keep pace with the latest technology developments, we present this compendium...Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Inspired by the octopus, the structure senses, computes, and responds without any centralized processing.
Articles: Aerospace
Read our special series on the Mars 2020 mission, featuring interviews with NASA experts and designers of the Perseverance rover.
Q&A: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A robotic finger has a sense of touch that can be localized with high precision over a large, multi-curved surface.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Perseverance will have the ability to land in more challenging terrain than Curiosity, making more rugged sites eligible as safe landing candidates.
Facility Focus: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Rensselaer Engineering focuses on solving the “grand challenges” facing humanity.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Tech Briefs spoke with NASA’s Keith Comeaux, Deputy Project Chief Engineer, to learn more about the helicopter heading to Mars.
Technology Leaders: Energy
Low-power radio design is enabling new connected IoT products for consumer, commercial, industrial, and medical markets.
Articles: Test & Measurement
NASA's Mars 2020 rover looks virtually the same as Curiosity but there are a number of differences.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Combining pulse oximetry with a heart-rate monitor improves sleep monitoring accuracy.
Application Briefs: Defense
Soldiers tend to dodge, dive, duck, and run, creating motion measurement challenges.
Technology Leaders: Wearables
Bio-interfacing and biodegradable flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) devices can help tackle some of the world’s great challenges including environmental degradation and food scarcity.
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