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Briefs: Transportation
This technique offers enhanced resolution and improved system reliability for mapping and obstacle recognition and navigation for vehicles.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This gel-like material leads a path toward “mechanoceuticals.”
Articles: Energy
A neural stimulator, a battery testing device, and a strain sensor.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
This device could be used to find threats to ecosystems.
Briefs: Wearables
These biosensors could lead to improved glucose monitors for millions of people who suffer from diabetes.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
An ultrafast image sensor with a built-in neural network can be trained to recognize certain objects.
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
This approach allows scientists to study the communication within plants, providing valuable insights to improve crop yields.
Briefs: Materials
The hydrogel could be made into a contact lens that effectively treats corneal melting.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
This technology shows potential for the detection of subtle human motions and the real-time monitoring of body postures for healthcare applications.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Video can be recreated from motion-blurred images and new cameras may someday retrieve 3D data from 2D medical images.
Products: Data Acquisition
Data storage boards, modular plugs, equipment enclosures, and more.
Briefs: Materials
The device brings lithium metal batteries one step closer to commercial viability.
Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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: 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).
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This approach could be used to cost-effectively make soft robots and wearable technologies.
Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
As an integral part of onshore and offshore drilling, mud pumps circulate drilling fluids to facilitate drilling oil and natural gas wells. Mud pumps stabilize pressure and support the well during the...
Blog: Data Acquisition
“Food supply” goes beyond just crop production. See how NASA is offering a more comprehensive look at food security and agriculture.
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
We plug in our headphones everyday. Now a robot can perform the task.
Question of the Week: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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: Test & Measurement
Tektronix announced new digital storage oscilloscopes.
Products: Energy
Photoelectric sensors, cable connectors, power monitors, and USB3 cameras.
Technology Leaders: Test & Measurement
Aircraft may have a huge amount of data available, but this doesn’t mean it’s the right data to troubleshoot a problem.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA's Dry Goods Delivery System, a lung-heart sensor on a chip, and more.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA needed help accurately measuring Earth-reflected sunlight.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers at Linköping University, together with colleagues in China, have developed a tiny unit that is both an optical transmitter and a receiver.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Podcasts: Medical
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