HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Fiber Optic Cables Are Everywhere: How Do They Work?
Fiber optic cables are composed of one or more transparent fibers enclosed in protective coverings and strength members.
CCD Camera: A Growing Universe of Uses
Couple-charged device cameras are a type of image capture device that use an image sensor to register visible light as an electronic signal.
Aluminum-Cerium Alloys Could Boost Engine Efficiency and Rare Earth Production
Rare earths are a group of elements critical to electronics, alternative energy and other modern technologies. Yet there is no production occurring in North America at this time.
Reusable Photocurable Liquid Could Have PCB, 3D-Printing Applications
This is the first example of a method that creates coordination polymers by exposing liquids to light.
IEEE Initiative Announced to Boost 5G Innovation
An international Open Testbed Community led by IEEE is aimed at stimulating 5G innovation.
Anti-UAV System to Be Tested at U.S. Airports
Each month, the FAA receives more than 100 reports from pilots and others who spot what appear to be unmanned aircraft flying too close to an airport or manned airplane.
Camera-Equipped Drone Enables "Smart" Watering of Crops
Hyperspectral cameras are effective in picking up the “spectral signature” of plants, which varies with their stage of growth and the surrounding conditions.
Ingestible Robot Can Be Controlled by Magnets
The robot can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach wall to remove a swallowed button battery and/or patch the resulting wound.
Robotically Fabricated Pavilion Takes Shape in London
The Elytra Filament Pavilion is a canopy of tightly woven carbon fiber cells created using a novel robotic production process.
Removing the Risk from Robot-Human Interactions
Robots with soft actuators are typically tethered by pneumatic hoses, restricting their radius of motion.
Terahertz Waves: Poised for a Breakthrough?
Researchers are uncovering ways that terahertz frequencies could be of great value for close-range applications, including cancer detection.
Hand-Mounted Camera Maps Robot's Surroundings
A robot needs to know where its hand is before it reaches into a tight spot, so researchers at the CMU Robotics Institute have improved upon the dilemma by attaching a camera to the robot’s hand.
Groundwater Pumping a Major Cause of New Orleans Subsidence
The research was the most spatially extensive, high-resolution study to date of regional subsidence in and around New Orleans, measuring its effects and examining its causes.
"RoboBees" Can Perch to Save Energy
The RoboBee uses an electrode patch and a foam mount to absorb shock. The robot's total weight is 100 mg—similar to that of a real bee.
Phantom 3 Drone Offers an Integrated Package and a Lesson
In reviewing the DJI Phantom 3, a former flight-test engineer learns there is more to operating a drone than just powering it up and taking off.
Team Develops a Plasma-Free Method to Create Semiconductors
The method could allow manufacturers to produce large sheets of thin-film silicon semiconductors at low temperature in simple reactors.
Roadside Sensors Could Cut Salting Costs
The sensors utilize WiFi networks to transmit data on road-surface temperatures to local authorities and highways agencies that use it to target precisely where salt is needed.
Smart Shoes Guide Sightseers
The smart shoes are connected via Bluetooth to a smartphone app that uses the phone’s GPS to direct the wearer in the direction to walk by triggering small vibrating sensors within the shoe.
NASA, FAA Demonstrate Wireless Communication with Aircraft
The prototype AeroMACS hardware, developed by Hitachi Ltd., is based on WiMAX wireless communication standards but uses different frequencies to enable connectivity on the ground.
Silver Nanowires in Smartphones?
Silver nanowire films consist of wires over a thousand times thinner than a human hair that form an interconnected conductive network.