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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Applications include high-speed communications, networking, and sensing.
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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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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This technique can be used by people who are paralyzed or have neurodegenerative diseases.
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Briefs: Data Acquisition
The “E-dermis” will enable amputees to perceive through prosthetic fingertips.
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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: Materials
Bioactive inks printed on wearable textiles can map conditions over the entire surface of the body.
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Products: RF & Microwave Electronics
InnoSenT introduced the IMD-3000 radar system as an alternative to pushbutton switches.
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Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
An A/C alternative, AI that sharpens blurry images, and a NASA energy harvester.
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Briefs: Wearables
Smart devices measure electrical signals from the skin, indicating stress levels and emotions.
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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: Communications
This method of machine learning could make communications in the unlicensed bands much more efficient.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Pop-up miniature electronics based on the Japanese art of kirigami can be repeatedly compressed.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This system encodes information in twisting beams of light.
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Briefs: Internet of Things
Self-powering, color-changing humidity sensors are applicable to various fields including smart windows, health care, and safety management.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Empa researchers were able to demonstrate real-time acoustic monitoring of laser weld seams.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
A remote forest fire detection and alarm system is powered by nothing but the movement of trees in the wind.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Designed to assist in robotic surgeries, biomedical devices can be printed in and on the human body.
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Briefs: Wearables
A new type of motion capture technology accurately tracks an athlete during the push start phase of performance.
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Briefs: Imaging
University of Colorado researchers have described a new silicon chip that improves the resolution and scanning speed needed for a lidar system.
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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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: Green Design & Manufacturing
Dr. James Rees is spending the time in his lab testing sensors made from bacteria.
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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: Electronics & Computers
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: Test & Measurement
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: Sensors/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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Articles: Motion Control
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).
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Positioning devices, vibration transmitters, brushless DC motors, and more.
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