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Application Briefs: Imaging
Editor Ed Brown explores what’s ahead for MEMS automobile navigation systems.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The design could contribute to various applications in the robotics field such as smart prosthetics and human-robot interaction.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The walking quadruped is controlled and powered by pressurized air.
Briefs: Motion Control
The machines fold themselves within 100 milliseconds and can flatten and refold thousands of times.
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Encoders, quick disconnects, automation systems, and more.
Articles: Imaging
Faster inline CT inspections makes it possible to inspect far greater numbers of circuit boards.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Biobots based on muscle cells can swim at unprecedented velocities.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Designers who must sense motor position, speed, or acceleration have a lot of choices, including resolvers, optical encoders, and Hall-effect devices.
Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
The system could one day replace LiDAR and cameras in automated manufacturing, biomedical imaging, and autonomous driving.
Application Briefs: Motion Control
A valve actuator has deep-sea applications.
Special Reports: Communications
ADAS/Connected Car - June 2021
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...Blog: RF & Microwave Electronics
NC State researchers have made what they believe to be the smallest state-of-the-art RFID chip: a device measuring 125 micrometers (μm) by 245μm.
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
Uncooled Thermal Lens
British threat detection specialist Silent Sentinel (Hertfordshire, UK) has expanded its Aeron Ranger suite of cameras to include a brand-new 25-150mm Long Wavelength Infrared (LWIR) uncooled thermal lens,...
Special Reports: Aerospace
Advanced Materials & Coatings - May 2021
New diamond super-material enhances military aircraft survivability…a gold film gives robots “chameleon skin”…shape-shifting nanomaterial offers exciting biotech applications…aerogel-reinforced...Products: Test & Measurement
A smart temperature transmitter delivers measurements via Bluetooth.
Q&A: Wearables
Rutgers researcher Xiaoran Fan developed a "HeadFi" method that uses ordinary headphones as sensors.
Application Briefs: Test & Measurement
See how makers of an automated truck wash system added a monitoring option for customers.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The portable lab-on-a-chip detects many contaminants in water supplies.
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Cable ties, milling software, snap-action switches, and more.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
Programmed magnetic nanobeads are used to detect the virus in 55 minutes or less.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Applications include monitoring of earthquakes and tsunamis as well as manmade infrasonic sources such as boats.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
The miniaturized detector mimics the process dogs use to detect cancer and other diseases by smell.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This technology provides drones sufficient time and distance to react, avoid wires, and navigate follow-on maneuvers.
Briefs: Energy
This method increases burn rate of solid propellants.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This technique has applications in strain, temperature, pressure, vibration, and acoustic sensing.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The sensors could be used in medical applications such as neuroscience and metabolism processes.
5 Ws: Robotics, Automation & Control
A research team programmed two robots — a humanoid figure and a robotic arm — to measure human physiological signals.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Normally an insulator, diamond becomes a metallic conductor when subjected to large strain.
Briefs: Materials
The paper-like material could be useful in soft robots, sensors, artificial muscles, and electric generators.
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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INSIDER: Motion Control
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Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
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Webcasts
Webinars: AR/AI
From Grid to GPU: Validating Next-Gen AI Data Center Power...
Summits: Energy
Hydrogen & Alternative Fuels Summit 2026
Webinars: Manned Systems
Engineering Extended-Range Hybrid Systems
Editorial Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Design for Miniaturization: Meeting the Demand for Smaller,...
Webinars: AR/AI
Why Your Integration Stack Is Blocking Your AI Roadmap
Editorial Webinars: Automotive
