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Briefs: Wearables
The device could impact composites manufacturing and health monitoring.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Stronger and flexible, polyimide aerogels provide insulation and structural support.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A technology uses a combination of WiFi signals and accelerometer technology to track devices in near-real-time.
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Articles: Photonics/Optics
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: Defense
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.

Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
See the eight winners of the 2019 "Create the Future" Design Contest
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Briefs: Test & Measurement

Understanding how cars, planes, bridges, and other structures handle vibrations and dynamic loads can be critical to their design and performance. Researchers have developed a new way to...

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Articles: Aerospace
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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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems

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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Briefs: Aerospace

Although Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is being used widely for pallet and box-level tracking in the commercial sector, significant technology gaps remain for tracking dense quantities at the item...

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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs

To investigate oceans, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that sends data to the surface. Supplying constant power to scores of sensors designed to stay for long...

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NASA Spinoff: Electronics & Computers
The material used on a shuttle's rocket boosters has several terrestrial applications.
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Articles: Nanotechnology
Battelle's simple, cost-effective sensor detects the onset of battery faults.
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Application Briefs: Imaging
Learn about the Draper Multi-Environment Navigator.
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Blog: Aerospace
A minimal, map-less approach to drone navigation takes after the bee.
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Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The 'Biode' saves power by eliminating the need for AC/DC conversion.
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Blog: Weapons Systems
It just wouldn’t be a military technology show without a few drones on display.
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News: Electronics & Computers
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: Robotics, Automation & Control
Editor Bruce A. Bennett offers a look at the Association of the United States Army's 2019 Annual Meeting.
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Blog: Motion Control
A Tech Briefs reader asks: What's next with military motion control?
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Blog: Imaging
A new drone “folds” itself into configurations that suit a given environment.
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers

To investigate the vastly unexplored oceans covering most of our planet, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that send data to the surface — an...

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Special Reports: Defense
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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: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA Armstrong flight-tests some of the nation’s most unique aircraft and aeronautical systems.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The characteristics of hybrid drives present a practical solution when a position needs to be detected with high precision
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Briefs: Aerospace
Fluid-Filled Frequency-Tunable Mass Damper

Innovators at Marshall Space Flight Center developed the fluid-filled Frequency-Tunable Mass Damper (FTMD) technology that allows for significant distribution of loads while also providing a simple mechanism that allows for the capability to change its frequency of mitigation with negligible impact on...

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

Videos