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Special Reports: Energy
Advanced Materials & Coatings - May 2023
Breakthroughs in plastics, composites, metals, and other materials technologies are enabling exciting new applications in industries ranging from aerospace to automotive to medical. Read more in this...Articles: Medical
See the Products of Tomorrow, including silicon photonic MEMS, a micro-robotic arm, and more.
Videos of the Month: Robotics, Automation & Control
Watch the Videos of the Month, including one about a swimming robot, one about 3D printing a controllable replica of a patient’s heart, and two more.
Briefs: Medical
Researchers have developed a wearable ultrasound device — about the size of a postage stamp — that can assess both the structure and function of the human heart.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Trends in wearable technology follow those of the broader biomedical and electronics industries — devices are getting smaller, smarter, and easier to use. Specifically, wearables in...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new sensor — so cheap and simple to produce that it can be hand-drawn with a pencil onto paper treated with sodium chloride — could clear the way for wearable, self-powered health monitors.
Blog: Data Acquisition
When AI is used for making health decisions, hiring decisions, financial credit decisions, or automobile-driving decisions, riskiness is a big deal — some people are working to reduce the risks.
Blog: Medical
A Caltech-developed new kind of smart bandage aims to treat lingering wounds and help those who have trouble recuperating.
INSIDER: Data Acquisition
The molecules in our bodies are in constant communication. Some of these molecules provide a biochemical fingerprint that could indicate how a wound is healing, whether a cancer...
Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Optics & Photonics Innovations - April 2023
Demand for satellite communications bandwidth is quickly outstripping supply. The solution: optical, laser-based technologies. Read all about it – and other major photonics advances – in this...Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers have developed a highly specialized 3D-printing technique that allows microfluidic channels to be fabricated on chips at a precise microscale.
Briefs: Materials
New research shows the glittering, serpentine structures that power wearable electronics can be created with the same technology used to print concert t-shirts.
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The device uses soft robotics, ultra-thin electronics, and microfluidics.
Briefs: Medical
A new technique enables the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in the air by using a nanotechnology-packed bubble that spills its chemical contents like a broken piñata when encountering the virus.
Briefs: Medical
An apparatus and method that controls the growth and proliferation of 3D biological cells and mammalian tissue in the presence of a pulsating, alternating ionic magnetic resonance field.
INSIDER: Wearables
Some 30,000 people in the U.S. are affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neurodegenerative condition that damages cells in...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
The soft robotic models are patient-specific and could help clinicians zero in on the best implant for an individual.
NASA Spinoff: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA-designed technology helps detect people trapped under several feet of rubble after earthquakes.
Special Reports: Materials
Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - March 2023
The first 3D-printed nano-alloy...plasma treatment increases plastic part value 10x...light-powered catalysts aid drug manufacturing...how to build better "soft" robots. Those are just a few of...Briefs: Wearables
Flexible, wearable electronics could be used for precision medical sensors attached to the skin, designed to perform health monitoring and diagnosis.
Briefs: Medical
A highly sensitive wearable sensor for cardiorespiratory monitoring could potentially be worn continuously by cardiac patients or others who require constant monitoring.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Diagnosing liver damage earlier could help to prevent liver failure in many patients.
Briefs: Nanotechnology
The smart bandage can dispense antibiotic, monitor wound-healing biomarkers, and report important data directly to doctors.
Briefs: Materials
The thermoelectric textile produces a small amount of electricity when heated on one side.
Briefs: Wearables
Infused lenses create a safer way to see colors.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The system promotes myocardial regeneration after a cardiac event.
Blog: Data Acquisition
A microelectronic fiber with microscopic parameters is capable of analyzing electrolytes and metabolites in sweat.
Blog: Design
The term artificial intelligence (AI) has become an everyday catch phrase. The way it’s used all over the media, however, is very different from the way I think about it.
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
First, they walked. Then, they saw the light. Now, miniature biological robots have gained a new trick: remote control. These hybrid “eBiobots” are the first to...
Top Stories
Blog: Design
Aerial Microrobots That Can Match a Bumblebee's Speed
Blog: Energy
My Opinion: We Need More Power Soon — Is Nuclear the Answer?
Blog: Electronics & Computers
Turning Edible Fungi into Organic Memristors
Blog: Semiconductors & ICs
Revolutionizing the Production of Semiconductor Chips
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Microscopic Swimming Machines that Can Sense, Respond to Surroundings
Quiz: Energy
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