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Wearable sensor can help unlock the potential of exosuits in real-world environments
Wearing an exosuit could help people rehab from an injury or even give them extra oomph if they're carrying something heavy.
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Five ways drones will change the way buildings are designed
Drones are already shaping the face of our cities—used for building planning, heritage, construction and safety enhancement. But, as studies by the UK's Department of Transport have found, swathes of the public have a limited ...
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Communications system achieves fastest laser link from space yet
In May 2022, the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) payload onboard a small CubeSat satellite was launched into orbit 300 miles above Earth's surface. Since then, TBIRD has delivered terabytes of data at record-breaking rates ...
Dec 01, 2022
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Lightweight robotic leg prosthesis replicates the biomechanics of the knee, ankle and toe joint
The Utah Bionic Leg, a motorized prosthetic for lower-limb amputees developed by University of Utah mechanical engineering associate professor Tommaso Lenzi and his students in the HGN Lab, is on the cover of the newest issue ...
Dec 01, 2022
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Stretchable rubber diode opens possibilities for medical, electronic devices
If you are reading this article on your computer or phone, it is in part thanks to diodes. Diodes—typically rigid electrical components that easily conduct electric current in one direction—are used for a variety of critical ...
Dec 01, 2022
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Soft robots make virtual reality gloves feel more real
Soft robots, or those made with materials like rubber, gels and cloth, have advantages over their harder, heavier counterparts, especially when it comes to tasks that require direct human interaction. Robots that could safely ...
Dec 01, 2022
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Inexpensive airborne testbeds could study hypersonic technologies
Miniature satellites known as CubeSats are taking on larger roles in space missions that might previously have been carried out by more expensive conventional spacecraft. Now, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology ...
Dec 01, 2022
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New safety technology reduces transportation accidents
Warehouses are home to heavy volumes of traffic. The numbers of industrial trucks (pallet trucks, forklift vehicles and the like) traversing their aisles are growing especially large—in facilities that are themselves increasing ...
Dec 01, 2022
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Manufacturing process optimizes the production of nonwoven masks
Producing infection control clothing requires a lot of energy and uses lots of material resources. Fraunhofer researchers have now developed a technology which helps to save materials and energy when producing nonwovens. ...
Dec 01, 2022
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Researchers develop novel monolithic integrated micro-supercapacitors
Microscale electrochemical energy storage systems with high systemic performance, superior cell number density, tunable capacitance, and output voltage are promising for miniaturized electronics.
Dec 01, 2022
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Investigating the mystery of the last standing grain bin after 2020 windstorm
More than 750,000 steel silos and bins are estimated to pepper rural America, often standing empty before filling up on the annual harvest. The modest cylinders typically feature thin, corrugated walls that belie the importance ...
Dec 01, 2022
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Novel 3D printing method to fabricate complex metal–plastic composite structures
Three-dimensional (3D) metal–plastic composite structures have widespread potential applicability in smart electronics, micro/nanosensing, internet-of-things (IoT) devices, and even quantum computing. Devices constructed ...
Nov 30, 2022
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New method can scale, simplify manufacture of stretchy semiconductors
Soft, elastic semiconductors and circuits could advance wearable medical devices and other emerging technologies, but the high-performance electronics are difficult and expensive to manufacture. A Penn State-led research ...
Nov 30, 2022
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New data set improves modeling of supersonic flows around a cantilever
Extreme pressures come with high-speed flight. The resulting aerodynamic forces can bring significant risk to deforming the components of the vehicle in motion—even to the point of aeroelastic deformation—when solids ...
Nov 30, 2022
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