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Expanding Copernicus’s Earth Observation Program With Hyperspectral Imaging

Last June, the European Commission and the European Space Agency awarded Kuva Space a €5M commercial contract to be the sole provider of hyperspectral data...

Photonics West 2024: 5 New Technologies on Display This Year

The largest optics and trade show in North America, SPIE Photonics West 2024, is just a few days away from its annual collection of exhibitions, conferences and courses at San...

Imagining the Future of Aerospace Technology

Dr. Rickey Shyne, director of research and engineering at NASA Glenn, envisions a future where breakthrough materials, more efficient batteries, and innovative energy storage systems will...

Increasing Aerospace Propulsion Systems’ Resilience

Watch this video to learn more about the Advanced Propulsion and Power Lab, at which multiple research projects funded by the Navy, Rolls-Royce, and Pratt & Whitney are converging....

Castrol, MIT Media Lab Team Up to Support Lunar Landing Research

Castrol has joined MIT’s Media Lab to support its AstroAnt Payload Program — a miniature robotic swarm designed to perform various inspections and diagnostic tasks on the...

My Opinion: Why Microgrids?

Microgrids are an excellent way of addressing multiple challenges facing our national electricity supply. They support resiliency and flexibility and offer a sensible way to integrate renewables.

Look Inside the Battery with COMSOL Multiphysics®

Modeling and simulation (M&S) enables engineers to look inside a battery to understand its inner workings and predict how various conditions will affect performance. Watch this video to...

Neural Hand Prosthesis Control Test

Watch this video to see the Media Lab enhance human physical capability and revolutionize mental well-being using digital technologies and human-computer interaction. Dave Burke works with Biomechatronics...

A Picking Robot for a Greenhouse

A picking robot from ETH spin-off Floating Robotics automates important tasks such as defoliation, harvesting, and packaging of vegetables. Although the robot is still in the pilot phase, the team expects it to...

Autonomous Grasping Robots to Help Maintain Space Habitats

Watch this video to see how Purdue University researchers are using machine learning to train a robot to recognize a jumbled pile of items, locate the one item it needs, and retrieve...

Cadillac Reveals 2025 CT5-V and CT5-V Blackwing with More Tech

While Cadillac is hurtling toward its electric-only future with five EVs either in-production or announced, the V-series of ICE performance vehicles — celebrating its 20th...

Marines Receive First Combat and Control Variant of Amphibious Combat Vehicle

BAE Systems delivered the first Amphibious Combat Vehicle Command and Control (ACV-C) variant under the full-rate production contract to the U.S. Marine Corps....

FAA Expands Boeing 737 Investigation to Manufacturing and Production Lines

The Federal Aviation Administration is expanding its investigation into what caused the recent Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 incident to Boeing's manufacturing...

Army Launches $50 Million Advanced Manufacturing Initiative for Aviation and Weapon Systems

The U.S. Army has awarded a $50 million three-year research project to Auburn University to understand how new manufacturing materials and methods...

How the US Navy Uses Organic Manufacturing to Combat Supply Chain Constraints

When supply chain constraints make it challenging to source parts for aircraft maintained at Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE), the depot’s organic...

An Ultra-Thin Tattoo that Produces a Tactile Sensation

The new system is an electronic tattoo a few micrometers thick, which is designed to arouse a tactile sensation, enabling a person to perceive a touch.

3D Printing Hair Follicles in Lab-Grown Skin

This marks the first time researchers have used the technology to generate hair follicles, which play an important role in skin healing and function.

Vote for Tech Briefs’ 29th Annual Readers’ Choice Awards

These 12 products are the nominees for the 2020 Tech Briefs Readers’ Choice Product of the Year.

Vote for Medical Design Briefs 2023 Annual Readers’ Choice Awards

Vote for the 2023 Product of the Year.

How Much Do You Know About Machine Vision?

How much do you know about MV (an industry that is projected to be worth $18.4 billion by 2028)? Find out with this quiz.

Tuning-Up AI’s ‘Understanding’ to Make Safer ADAS, AVs

In December 2023, Kognic, the Gothenburg, Sweden-based developer of a software platform to analyze and optimize the massively complex datasets behind ADAS and automated-driving...

Making Hydrogen the Next Major Fuel Source for Soldiers

Researchers from the Naval Research Laboratory are collaborating with other DOD agencies to make hydrogen the next major fuel source for our warfighters. The team has developed a new...

U.S. Army Pathfinder Program: Innovation in Makerspaces

Watch this video to learn about the U.S. Army Pathfinder program. Managed by DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory in close partnership with the DEVCOM Armaments Center, the program aims to...

Meet THOR: AFRL’s Counter-Drone that Tracks and Disables Drone Swarm

The Department of Defense is exploring options to protect our warfighters further. Enter THOR, stage right. Tactical, High-power, Operational Responder (THOR), is a...

Westport Awarded LNG Development Program

Westport Fuel Systems announced that it has been awarded a development program by a global heavy truck manufacturer to adapt its LNG HPDI fuel system to meet Euro 7 emissions requirements for...

Building the Internet of Bio-Nano Things

Researchers have developed a protocol that enables a molecular network with multiple transmitters. The interface of computer science and biology —the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) —...

Made-to-Order Diagnostic Tests on the Horizon

Researchers have invented a lab-on-a-chip that can be 3D printed in just 30 minutes. The chip has the potential to make on-the-spot testing widely accessible.

Automated Manufacturing in CNC Machining Environments

Automation of CNC processes is a global requirement driven by the need for increased efficiency, productivity and cost competitive manufacturing.

Smart Factory Technologies - Benefit From the Factory of the Future, Today

Renishaw’s Smart Factory technologies provide automated and intelligent process control. They enable manufacturers to benefit from the factory of the future, today....