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Videos: Motion Control
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology(TU/e) developed a miniature plastic robot that's made of responsive polymers and moves under the influence of light and magnetism. The...
Videos: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Manipulating thin flexible objects like ropes, wires, or cables is very challenging for robots. As it moves, a wire's shape is changing and the robot’s fingers must be constantly sensing and...
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Additive manufacturing (AM), aka 3D printing, is not new to Porsche. The German manufacturer heavily leverages AM processes in prototyping, and since May 2020, in production for customizable...
Blog: Sensors/Data Acquisition
We plug in our headphones everyday. Now a robot can perform the task.
News: Aerospace
The aerospace & defense (A&D) industry has always been known for great innovation and high expectations. Even during the difficult times with the impact of COVID-19,...
Videos: Robotics, Automation & Control
This footage of the surface of Mars was mostly captured by three of NASA's rovers: Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity. ElderFox Documentaries stitched together high-resolution photos from the...
Blog: Imaging
The Perseverance rover has an almost human-like way of keeping its lenses clean.
Videos: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In collaboration with General Motors, researchers at the NASA Johnson Space Center designed and developed Robo-Glove, a wearable human grasp assist device. Robo-Glove helps reduce the grasping...
Videos: Materials
Inspired by grapefruit's tough cellular skin and the fracture-resistant shells of the abalone sea creature, engineers at Durham University have created a "non-cuttable" material called "Proteus."...
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
With pressures from the COVID-19 situation pressuring U.S. business and economic structures, development and deployment of high-level vehicle...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Airbus has concluded tests of its Autonomous Taxi, Take-Off and Landing (ATTOL) project, achieving autonomous taxiing, takeoff, and landing of a commercial aircraft.
The ATTOL project explores how...
INSIDER: Aerospace
For the first time in the agency’s history, NASA has initiated a new effort to enable NASA personnel to fly on future commercial suborbital spaceflights.
Commercial suborbital spaceflight...
INSIDER: Aerospace
Pilots have long used acrobatic maneuvers to test the limits of their airplanes – the same goes for flying drones. Researchers have developed a quadrotor helicopter that can learn to fly acrobatic...
Blog: Green Design & Manufacturing
Researchers from the University of Houston, in collaboration with others, have designed a “catch and kill” air filter that can trap the virus responsible for COVID-19,...
Blog: Design
Researchers are working to develop a safe and effective vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Before a vaccine is available to the...
Blog: Medical
A new peer-reviewed study by researchers at NSF International and Novateur Ventures finds significant variability in the accuracy of currently available COVID-19...
Blog: Medical
MIT’s new Pandemic Response CoLab — a joint project of theMIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI), the MIT Community Biotechnology Initiative (CBI) at the MIT Media...
Videos: Semiconductors & ICs
A new stretchy material called "HELIOS" developed at the National University of Singapore could pave the way for new light-emitting robots and flexible digital...
Videos: Materials
Trees produce cellulose themselves and use it to build complex structures with impressive mechanical properties, which makes cellulose attractive to materials scientists looking to manufacture...
Videos: Imaging
Edmund Optics® manufactures thousands of precision aspheric lenses per month in our asphere manufacturing cell that operates 24 hours a day. This video shows the entire manufacturing process of an asphere...
Question of the Week: Unmanned Systems
Will ‘Roboats’ Catch On?
Our July issue of Tech Briefs highlighted a fleet of “roboats” that could someday transport people, collect trash, and self-assemble into floating structures.
The Roboat autonomous robotic boats — rectangular hulls equipped with sensors, thrusters, microcontrollers, GPS modules, cameras, and other hardware —...
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
A tiny underwater robot may someday filter out water contaminants by catching them with its tentacles.
INSIDER: Imaging
Just as a meter stick with hundreds of tick marks can be used to measure distances with great precision, a device known as a laser frequency comb, with its hundreds...
INSIDER Product: Photonics/Optics
Ultraviolet-Enhanced Circular Photodetector
Opto Diode Corporation (Camarillo, CA) has introduced the UVG5S, an ultraviolet-enhanced photodiode with a 5 mm² circular active area. The new device is suitable for detection between...
INSIDER: Test & Measurement
Carolin Frueh is among only a handful of researchers who have persisted in using a complex technique that can diagnose a problem from thousands of miles away based on how a...
INSIDER: Materials
A new way of making large sheets of high-quality, atomically thin graphene could lead to ultra-lightweight, flexible solar cells, and to new classes of...
Videos: Robotics, Automation & Control
Engineering researchers at North Carolina State University have developed jellyfish-inspired soft robots that can out-swim their real-life counterparts. These jellyfish-bots demonstrate a technique...
Videos: Imaging
Researchers at the University of Zurich have developed a navigation algorithm that enables drones to learn acrobatic maneuvers using nothing more than onboard sensor measurements. Autonomous...
INSIDER: Defense
When soldiers enter a new environment, their mission demands they stay one step ahead of the enemy; however, they may find it challenging to maintain a high level of alertness if they're...
Top Stories
INSIDER: Medical
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From the Editor: Medical
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INSIDER: Medical
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Features: AR/AI
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Ask the Expert
John Chandler on Achieving Quality Motion Control
FAULHABER MICROMO brings together the highest quality motion technologies and value-added services, together with global engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing, to deliver top quality micro motion solutions. With 34 years’ experience, John Chandler injects a key engineering perspective into all new projects and enjoys working closely with OEM customers to bring exciting new technologies to market.
Webcasts
Podcasts: Medical
How Wearables Are Enhancing Smart Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Medical
Developing Sustainable Drug-Delivery Devices
Podcasts: Design
Smarter Pathways for Precision Drug Delivery in Cancer Care
On-Demand Webinars: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Understanding Testing and Compliance Requirements for Wireless Medical Devices
Podcasts: AR/AI
Personalized Medicine and Drug Delivery
Podcasts: Green Design & Manufacturing
Inside Story
Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.