Engineering
Standard image sensors, like the billion or so already installed in practically every smartphone in use today, capture light intensity and color. Relying on common, off-the-shelf sensor technology—known as CMOS—these ...
Mar 28, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
The bipartisan infrastructure bill recently signed into law by President Joe Biden includes a requirement for automakers to install driver monitoring systems that detect intoxicated or impaired drivers. Current systems rely ...
Dec 8, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Building façades and pavements in Dutch and Italian cities are being turned into smart, energy-harvesting surfaces and equipped with sensors to power, heat and cool spaces and even monitor roads.
Jul 7, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers at Peking University, Southern University of Science and Technology and the University of Jinan in China have recently designed a ceramic-polymer composite that can be used to print complex 3-D grid architectures. ...
Apr 28, 2020 feature
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Engineering
MIT researchers have developed a simple, low-cost method to 3-D print ultrathin films with high-performing "piezoelectric" properties, which could be used for components in flexible electronics or highly sensitive biosensors.
Aug 29, 2019
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Engineering
To investigate the vastly unexplored oceans covering most our planet, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that send data to the surface—an underwater "internet of things." But how to supply ...
Aug 20, 2019
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Robotics
Researchers have created a new type of tiny 3-D-printed robot that moves by harnessing vibration from piezoelectric actuators, ultrasound sources or even tiny speakers. Swarms of these "micro-bristle-bots" might work together ...
Jul 17, 2019
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Robotics
A team of researchers at Harvard University and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has recently developed a computationally efficient framework for the estimation and control of leg trajectories on a quadrupedal ...
Feb 5, 2019 feature
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Energy & Green Tech
Mobile phone speakers and motion detectors in cars and video games may soon be powered by electricity generated from low cost and sustainable biomaterials, according to research carried out at University of Limerick (UL), ...
Dec 4, 2017
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