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Articles: Aerospace
Heartbeat-based biometrics, sonic-boom displays, and an artificial leaf.
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Briefs: Transportation
Load-bearing structures in cars and airplanes could be manufactured from the metal foam.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
A new method of estimating the optimal trailing aircraft position in a formation increases fuel savings.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This microrobot with soft actuators can crash, fall, and collide without being damaged.
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Articles: Data Acquisition
With the rise in electrification and design complexity, aerospace original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) need to look for new methodologies to mitigate compliance risk.
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Facility Focus: Energy
Glenn's research facilities have contributed to decades of technology advances.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Top prizes in the 2019 contest were awarded on November 8 in New York City.
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Briefs: Communications
A technology uses a combination of WiFi signals and accelerometer technology to track devices in near-real-time.
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Briefs: Energy
This lightweight material brings strength and durability to complex shapes.
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Articles: Medical
Products include an aerosol scattering sensor; metal foam; and a new coated drug capsule.
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Question of the Week: Transportation

For developers of A.I.-guided drones and autonomous technologies, failure is not an option.

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Podcasts: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Will we be able to trust autonomous drones? We explore the question in our latest episode of Here's an Idea.
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Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Will Entire Planes Be Built By 'Assembler Robots?'

Commercial aircraft are typically manufactured in sections, often in different locations, and then flown to a central plant for final assembly. Researchers at MIT are hoping to change that.

Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control

Flying animals both power and control flight by flapping their wings. This enables small natural flyers such as insects to hover close to a flower but also to rapidly escape danger. Animal flight has...

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Articles: Imaging
The Foldable Drone: a Morphing Quadrotor that can Squeeze and Fly Davide Falanga, Kevin Kleber, Stefano Mintchev, Dario Floreano, and Davide...
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A minimal, map-less approach to drone navigation takes after the bee.
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Blog: Aerospace
The 'Biode' saves power by eliminating the need for AC/DC conversion.
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Blog: Aerospace
It just wouldn’t be a military technology show without a few drones on display.
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Blog: Defense
SOSA, the Sensor Open Systems Architecture Consortium, held a press conference on Monday afternoon at AUSA 2019.
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Question of the Week: Aerospace
Will NASA’s New Wing Bring Greater Flexibility to Aircraft Design?

Researchers at NASA Ames Research Center and MIT have a radically new idea for an aircraft wing: hundreds of tiny subassemblied bolted together to form a constantly deformable lattice.

Blog: Defense
Editor Bruce A. Bennett offers a look at the Association of the United States Army's 2019 Annual Meeting.
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Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
A Tech Briefs reader asks: What's next with military motion control?
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Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new drone “folds” itself into configurations that suit a given environment.
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Special Reports: RF & Microwave Electronics
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RF & Microwave Electronics - October 2019

In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Aerospace & Defense Technology, Tech Briefs and Medical Design Briefs, read about how advances in RF electronics are enabling new...

Facility Focus: Photonics/Optics
NASA Armstrong flight-tests some of the nation’s most unique aircraft and aeronautical systems.
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Briefs: Imaging

Supersonic flight over land is generally prohibited because sonic booms created by shockwaves disturb people on the ground and can damage property. Armstrong innovators are working to...

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Briefs: Software

A numerical modeling tool allows for a better understanding of rotating detonation engines (RDEs).

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News: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Lightweight Sensing and Control System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Monitoring

A new sensing and control system for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) allows for semi-autonomous flight. Pilots need not leave the ground to conduct routine monitoring and surveillance quickly and cost-effectively. Such systems are particularly useful during long flight...

Briefs: Aerospace

NASA’s Langley Research Center developed an inexpensive, long-endurance, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). It is capable of flying for 24 hours, landing in a 50 × 50...

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Webcasts

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On-Demand Webinars: Defense

From Data to Decision: How AI Enhances Warfighter Readiness

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Upcoming Webinars: Aerospace

April Battery & Electrification Summit

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Upcoming Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Tech Update: 3D Printing for Transportation in 2024

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Upcoming Webinars: Materials

Unleashing Epoxy's Potential: Ensuring Hermetic Sealing in Modern...

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Upcoming Webinars: Test & Measurement

Building an Automotive EMC Test Plan

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Upcoming Webinars: Aerospace

The Moon and Beyond from a Thermal Perspective

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