Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Here's an Idea: A Morphing Airplane Wing Built by Tiny Robots
Blog: Software
Even NASA Needs Effective Parts Sourcing
You can design the best product in the world but what if the parts, assemblies, and sub-components for your idea aren’t there?
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
3D Printing and Space Exploration: How NASA Will Use Additive Manufacturing
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Answering Your Questions: How Long Should a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Take?
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Design Tool Brings a ‘Structural’ Approach to Color
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
How to Evaluate a Vision System Integrator
Blog: Manufacturing & Prototyping
How to Authenticate a 3D-Printed Part: ‘Explode’ and Embed a QR Code
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
IMTS2018 Preview
Presented by the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT), the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) has been the premier manufacturing technology show in the Northern Hemisphere. IMTS is held every even...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Diamond Pellet Grinding Tool
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center has developed a numerically controlled grinding tool that eliminates undesirable periodic variations in surface contours in optical and other surfaces — such as mid-spatial...
Question of the Week: Manufacturing & Prototyping
What are your Biggest Manufacturing Challenges?
What parts of the design process are the most difficult? What information are you looking for now to help you with your job? Is there a specific technology area that can be challenging to find out the latest solutions for?
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Cobots and Industrial Robots: Choose the Right Robot for the Job
Automating manufacturing processes is a complex issue, with no one-size-fits-all solution. Robots range from insect-like microrobots to industrial robots powerful enough to...
INSIDER: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Initially Moon-Bound, A New Demolition Probe Breaks Ground on Earth
An electrically-driven demolition probe originally funded by NASA enables a more precise, quieter fracturing method that its creators hope will give construction workers on...
NASA Tech Needs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Establishing a Network of pFab Innovators
Advanced Fabrication Processes Section
Fabrication Technology Development Branch
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, VA
The Fabrication...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Die Extrusion Technology for Medical Tubing Applications
Although the concept of nanotechnology (controlling matter on an atomic scale) dates back to 1959, it is only now becoming more commercially realized. It has the potential to challenge...
Briefs: Medical
Laser Sintering for Customized Medical Applications
Engineers have long been aware of the potential of laser sintering to create innovative and beneficial medical products. Because it is an additive (layer-by-layer) manufacturing process,...
Top Stories
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
A Former NASA Mission Manager Reflects on a 'Flawless' Mars Landing
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
A Robot Walks — No Electronics Needed
Videos: Photonics/Optics

'LaserFactory' Manufactures Fully Functional Devices & Drones
Videos: Motion Control

Watch NASA's Perseverance Rover Land on Mars
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition

High-Speed Infrared Reveals Safer Hypergolic Propellant
INSIDER: Motion Control


Question of the Week
Do You See Applications for Electronics-Free Robots?
Webcasts
Upcoming Webinars: Materials
Ultra-High Purity Silicone in Aerospace and Defense Product Design
Webinars: Medical
Lunch & Learn: Pitfalls of Medical Cord Sets
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A Four-Pillar Approach to Driving Greater Efficiency ePowertrain...
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Confident TCU Connectivity Through Efficient Functional Testing
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7 Levers for Electric and Autonomous Vehicles
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Application Briefs: Software

Online Tools Reduce Time and Expense in Selecting, Configuring, and Ordering...
Articles: Communications

5G in Manufacturing: What’s Here and What’s to Come
Articles: RF & Microwave Electronics

2020 Create the Future Design Contest: Automotive/Transportation Category...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers

Capacitive Sensors for Measuring Masses of Cryogenic Fluids
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Bacteria-Based Hydrogel Beads Clean Up Contaminated Groundwater
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
