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This Technology Is Marrying AI and AR

DARPA's Dr. Bruce Draper talks about the Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance (PTG) program, whose goal is to develop virtual “task guidance” assistants that can work with different sensor platforms to...

More Tamagotchi Than Smartwatch

Researchers explored how physical care for a living organism, embedded as a component on a wearable, also changes user-device relationships. The team engineered a smartwatch that includes a slime mold that...

A Microelectronic Fiber to Analyze Sweat

A microelectronic fiber with microscopic parameters is capable of analyzing electrolytes and metabolites in sweat.

Thinking About Artificial Intelligence

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.

Tailless Jet Flies Free with Novel Control Technique

While conventional aircraft rely on protruding fins to enable steering, a tailless design makes the body as smooth and sleek as possible, making it safer to fly in dangerous areas where...

Plasma Thrusters Used on Satellites Could be Much More Powerful

It was believed that Hall thrusters, an efficient kind of electric propulsion widely used in orbit, need to be large to produce a lot of thrust. Now, a new study from the...

Microelectronics Give Researchers a Remote Control for Biological Robots

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...

Johns Hopkins Researchers: PFAS? Pfft!

PFAS exposure has been linked to harmful health effects in humans and animals, and the chemicals persist in soil and water. Here, a Johns Hopkins APL team is developing several technologies to capture and...

Tracking Ocean Microplastics With Satellites

Satellite-driven tracking of ocean microplastics generates more data in one day than does data collected in 20 years via more traditional measurement methods. Here, researchers used NASA Cyclone...

Smart Walking Stick Could Aid Visually Impaired

A new take on an old design using artificial intelligence has the potential to make life incredibly easier for the visually impaired.

White Sands Test Facility: Keeping NASA Safe

NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, NM, is used for dangerous testing that is needed to support the agency’s missions. Here, a team designing shields to protect NASA’s Mars Earth...

Tunable, Narrow Linewidth, Chip-Scale Lasers

Mateus Corato Zanarella is the lead author of a Nature Photonics article describing the creation of tunable visible lasers of very pure colors from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared that fit on a fingertip.

How Well Do You Know Medical Robots?

How much do you know about medical robots, a market expected to reach $22.89 billion by 2030? Find out with this quiz.

Using Ultrasound Waves to Move Objects

By placing a metamaterial pattern on the surface of an object, the researchers were able to use sound to steer it in a certain direction without physically touching it.

SAE International and Sustainable Mobility Solutions Recognized by White House

SAE International and its Sustainable Mobility Solutions (SMS) are making big moves, and the nation’s taking notice.

5 Technologies from Photonics West 2023

See these five technologies that were on display at Photonics West 2023, captured by the editor of Photonics & Imaging Technology.

Making over the World’s Leading Hybrid

Its markedly upgraded power and performance take it to a driving-dynamics place difficult to believe could be achieved.

Autonomous Driving on Ice

A Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute research team is bringing autonomous driving to the ice rink — see how they add autonomous capabilities to a two-Zamboni-machine convoy.

'TartanDrive' Dataset Could Train Self-Driving ATVs

Researchers took an ATV on wild rides to gather data about how it interacts with a challenging off-road environment — 'TartanDrive' could be used to train self-driving ATVs in the future.

Recaro Pioneers Seating Shells Made with CF Recyclate

The green flag is about to drop on an auto-racing first: a seat shell infused with recycled carbon fiber.

Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Test Completed from Vandenberg

A team of Air Force Global Strike Command Airmen launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with a test reentry vehicle at...

US Air Force Test Center Invests $287 Million in Flight Test Instrumentation

Curtiss-Wright has been awarded a 10-year, $287 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract by Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) – Air Force Test...

US Army Approves Common Infrared Countermeasure Systems for Early Fielding

Northrop Grumman’s Common Infrared Countermeasures (CIRCM) system has achieved Initial Operational Capability (IOC) with the U.S. Army. With IOC, the U.S. Army...

Report Finds Navy Super Hornet Fighter Jets Aging Worse Than Predecessors

Introduced in the mid-to-late 1990s, the Department of the Navy’s (DON’s) F/A-18E/F Super Hornet is a multirole, fixed-wing aircraft capable of attacking other...

Airbus Launches European Defense Fund Research and Development Projects

Airbus has launched two defense research and development projects that it is coordinating as part of the 2021 European Defense Fund (EDF). In July 2022, the European...

How Much Do You Know About Ethernet?

Everyone uses Ethernet all the time. It's that cable you plug in to connect stuff. How much do you know about it? Take this quiz to find out.

Advances in Digital Image Correlation

Digital image correlation (DIC) is a non-contact optical method for measuring full-field (or areal) deformation, strain, and/or vibration on a given material in many application areas: ballistics,...

Low-Cost Sensor to Detect Metals in Non-Invasive Fluids

Researchers have developed a portable sensor made of simple materials to detect heavy metals in sweat, which is easily sampled.

Product Launch: Honeywell Introduces New Ultra-Fine Medical-Grade Fiber for Cardio, Ortho

Honeywell announced the addition of a new ultra-fine denier fiber to its Spectra® Medical Grade (MG) BIO fiber portfolio at MD&M West. Now...