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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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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...
Blog: Automotive
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.
Question of the Week: Transportation
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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new modeling tool from USC engineers generates automatic indicators when data and predictions from AI algorithms are trustworthy.
Podcasts: Software
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...
Special Reports: Aerospace
Aerospace & Defense - September 2020
In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology, you'll learn about the technology driving the Mars 2020 rover, how NASA will use GPS to navigate...Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Test & Measurement - September 2020
See how the latest test tools and methodologies are enabling new applications in aerospace, electronics, robotics, healthcare, and other key industries. This compendium of recent articles is presented by the...Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
InnoSenT introduced the IMD-3000 radar system as an alternative to pushbutton switches.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Real-time terahertz imaging with a single-pixel detector.
Products: Photonics/Optics
High-temp infrared emitter, single-frequency SWIR lasers, hazard testing systems, and more.
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The COVID crisis is propelling the camera industry toward disruptive transformation.
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
Learn how to obtain large signals from hyperspectral imagers.
Briefs: Automotive
University of Colorado researchers have described a new silicon chip that improves the resolution and scanning speed needed for a lidar system.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A new type of motion capture technology accurately tracks an athlete during the push start phase of performance.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Designed to assist in robotic surgeries, biomedical devices can be printed in and on the human body.
Products: Motion Control
Safety-critical MEMS, absolute pressure sensors, thermal imaging cameras, and more.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
These sensors will improve autonomous technologies in the industrial environment, like AGVs or forklifts.
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics
Choosing the right battery will save trouble and expense in the long run.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
A remote forest fire detection and alarm system is powered by nothing but the movement of trees in the wind.
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Smart sensors for hazardous areas monitor essential assets, such as motors and pumps.
Briefs: Materials
Empa researchers were able to demonstrate real-time acoustic monitoring of laser weld seams.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Predictive maintenance is poised to become much more widely adopted, and that will help to boost productivity in a time when we really need it.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Self-powering, color-changing humidity sensors are applicable to various fields including smart windows, health care, and safety management.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
With accelerated time from design to production, specialized foil sensor arrays will be expanding to many new areas.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Tech Briefs posed questions to machine learning/AI industry execs to get their opinions on platform selection, data interpretation, and more.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
This system encodes information in twisting beams of light.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This method provides a key step toward quantum computers, sensors, and distributed quantum information.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Pop-up miniature electronics based on the Japanese art of kirigami can be repeatedly compressed.
Top Stories
Blog: Design
A Stretchable OLED that Can Maintain Most of Its Luminescence
INSIDER: Design
Advancing All-Solid-State Batteries
Blog: Power
My Opinion: We Need More Power Soon — Is Nuclear the Answer?
Blog: Energy
Batteries that Can Withstand the Cold
Quiz: Power
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Microscopic Swimming Machines that Can Sense, Respond to Surroundings
Webcasts
On-Demand Webinars: Electronics & Computers
Advantages of Smart Power Distribution Unit Design for Automotive &...
Upcoming Webinars: Unmanned Systems
Quiet, Please: NVH Improvement Opportunities in the Early Design...
Upcoming Webinars: AR/AI
From Spreadsheets to Insights: Fast Data Analysis Without Complex...
Upcoming Webinars: Defense
Cooling a New Generation of Aerospace and Defense Embedded...
Upcoming Webinars: Software
Beyond AI-Copy-Paste Engineering: Advanced AI-Integration Success...
Upcoming Webinars: Energy
