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Briefs: Materials
A connection between electricity and mechanical motion in soft, rubber-like materials could improve robot range.
Briefs: Materials
Material for shoe bottoms could help prevent falls in icy or slippery conditions.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The soft, stretchy skin patch can monitor cardiovascular signals and multiple biochemical levels at the same time.
Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This episode of our Tech Briefs podcast series Here’s an Idea™ explores a variety of new-and-improved hearing aids, from $5 “do-it-yourself” devices to advanced systems that monitor brain waves.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A self-driving algorithm guides an autonomous vehicle through a traffic scenario that many of us know well: navigating traffic on a crowded, narrow street.
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Temperature transmitters, robotic tool changers, epoxy adhesives, and more.
Facility Focus: Energy
Duke Engineering supports clinical ultrasound imaging, restoration of hearing by cochlear implant, megapixel photography, and metamaterials.
Briefs: Lighting
This could lead to the commercial development of smart glass, with applications ranging from imaging to advanced robotics.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This wearable device is placed on the skin to measure a variety of body responses, from electrical to biomechanical signals.
Briefs: Unmanned Systems
The system uses infrasonic acoustics for weather monitoring and for drone or UAV activity.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Dangerous “butterfly” landmines can be detected using low-cost drones and infrared cameras.
Briefs: Communications
The technology harvests electrical energy from waste heat sources.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The algorithm speeds up the planning process robots use to adjust their grip on objects for picking and sorting or tool use.
Briefs: Unmanned Systems
These tiny aerial robots can operate in cramped spaces and withstand collisions.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The open-architecture flight software package provides solutions for onboard orbit determination.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A robot could immediately alert a human of small changes in their surrounding environment.
Articles: Wearables
Battery recycling, NASA's water treatment, and a wireless wearable transmitter.
Question of the Week: Test & Measurement
Will Mobile Radar Replace the Stethoscope?
Our June issue of Tech Briefs highlighted a radar system that enables touch-free monitoring of heart sounds. A significant advantage offered by radar, according to the system’s inventors, is the fact that the values are recorded digitally and are thus not subjective, allowing human error to be...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a soft, stretchy skin patch that can be worn on the neck to continuously track blood pressure and heart...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
After the optical frequency comb made its debut as a ruler for light, spinoffs followed, including the “astrocomb” to measure starlight and a radar-like comb system to detect...
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Atomically thin materials are a promising alternative to silicon-based transistors; now researchers can connect them more efficiently to other chip elements.
INSIDER: Communications
Physicists from the University of Sussex have developed an extremely thin, large-area semiconductor surface source of terahertz, composed of just a few...
Blog: Software
The Prediction Model for Flashover, or P-Flash, estimates where flashover explosions could occur.
INSIDER: Energy
North Carolina State University engineers continue to improve the efficiency of a flexible device worn on the wrist that harvests heat energy from the human body to monitor health.
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
The technology uses tactile sensing to identify objects underground.
Blog: Materials
A "self-aware," self-powering material can be used in heart stents, bridges, and even space.
Special Reports: Data Acquisition
Smart Factory/IIoT - June 2021
Factories are getting "smarter" and more automated by the day, thanks to advances in AI, connectivity, controls, and sensors. In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Sensor...Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A valve actuator has deep-sea applications.
Articles: Motion Control
Designers who must sense motor position, speed, or acceleration have a lot of choices, including resolvers, optical encoders, and Hall-effect devices.
Top Stories
Blog: Energy
Beyond Lithium: The Rise of Calcium-Ion Energy Storage
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Kitchen Tech Hack Aiming to Revolutionize 3D Printing
Blog: Design
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Blog: AR/AI
Trailblazing Innovators: Meet Rising Star Award Winner Sadiyah Sabah...
Quiz: Aerospace
How Much Do You Know About Jet Engine Components?
INSIDER: Motion Control
Webcasts
Webinars: Software
Driving Reliability: Simulation Driven EMI Techniques for Modern...
Editorial Webinars: Defense
Smarter Aerospace Manufacturing & Design with Digital Twins and...
Webinars: Electronics & Computers
Superior Environmental Protection with Ultra-Thin Parylene and...
Webinars: RF & Microwave Electronics
Where Time and Frequency Converge: Multi-Channel RF Analysis for Radar and...
Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Over-Engineering Trap: Aligning Custom Equipment Specs with Operational...
Podcasts: AR/AI
How AI Acceleration Strategies Are Changing Embedded Computing Architectures
