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Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Additive Manufacturing - November 2020
AM/3D Printing is fundamentally changing how products are prototyped and produced in aerospace, medical, electronics, and many other fields. To help you keep pace with the latest advances, we present this...

Blog: Test & Measurement
A reader asks, "For AV testing, what are the respective role of simulation, closed course, and public road testing?"
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The response time of kinetic inductance bolometers can be greatly enhanced by electrothermal feedback for devices that are both sensitive and speedy.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
A nanostructure design lends extraordinary strength to a promising storage ingredient.
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NASA Spinoff: Robotics, Automation & Control
NASA's UAS traffic management expertise leads to advances in drone navigation.
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Briefs: Materials
The new battery technology could improve electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and supercharge safe, long-range electric cars.
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Briefs: Energy
This technique may enable speedy, on-demand design of softer, safer neural devices.
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Briefs: Motion Control
This system has a capacity of more than 1,500 times the volume of a typical testing facility.
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Briefs: Unmanned Systems
The learning approach allows swarms of unmanned vehicles to optimally accomplish their mission while minimizing performance uncertainty.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Tiny aircraft that weigh as much as a fruit fly could serve as Martian atmospheric probes.
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5 Ws: Green Design & Manufacturing
Would you take a walk in biodegradable flip-flops?
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Briefs: Medical
This method integrates 3D plasmonic nanoarrays onto stickers that adhere to any surface.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Applications include rapid prototyping, medical, aerospace, and automotive.
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Q&A: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A nanoLED has up to 1,000 times the brightness of conventional submicron-sized LEDs.
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Briefs: Energy
Taking a cue from birds and insects, the wing design helps drones fly more efficiently and makes them more robust to atmospheric turbulence.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Neuromorphic computing uses memristors that could function and operate like real brain synapses.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Open source microcontroller technologies in industrially hardened form factors address critical applications.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This capability will optimize performance of the vehicle through different phases of flight.
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Briefs: Motion Control
A soft hydrogel, driven by an oscillatory chemical reaction, produces an autonomous integrated pump for microfluidic applications.
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Products: Photonics/Optics
Accelerometers, actuators, hexapods, and more.
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Briefs: Medical
This mini robot improves precision and control of teleoperated surgical procedures.
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Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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Aerospace & Defense - October 2020
In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology, you'll learn about NASA's return to the moon with Apollo's twin sister Artemis, how autonomous...

Special Reports: RF & Microwave Electronics
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RF & Microwave Electronics - October 2020
In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Aerospace & Defense Technology and Tech Briefs, read about how advances in RF electronics are enabling new applications in space and ground...

Special Reports: Packaging & Sterilization
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Medical Manufacturing and Outsourcing - October 2020
Discover how advances in factory automation, robotics, 3D printing and other fabrication technologies are shaping the future of medical device manufacturing in this Special Report – a...

INSIDER: Medical
Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed the world’s smallest ultrasound detector. Based on miniaturized...
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INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The proliferation and miniaturization of electronics in devices, wearables, medical implants, and other applications has...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
For a long time, something important has been regularly neglected in electronics. If you want to make electronic components smaller and smaller, you also need the right insulator materials. This is...
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INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
Researchers at the University of Houston report that they have designed and produced a smart electronic skin and a medical robotic hand capable of assessing vital diagnostic data...
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INSIDER: Imaging
For planned robotic and crewed missions to the Moon and Mars, NASA is developing and testing precise landing and hazard-avoidance technologies. A combination of laser sensors, a camera, a high-speed...
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