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360-Degree Radar Helps People, Robots Work Together Safely
IAF’s 360-degree radar can penetrate optically opaque material, which means it can identify an employee even if there are boxes, cardboard walls or other obstacles in the way.
Cheap, Portable Gravimeter Opens Up Industrial Applications
The detector uses the same inexpensive, mass-producible micro-electromechanical systems employed in smartphones’ internal accelerometers.
Sensor-Outfitted UAV Allows Remote Methane Leak Detection
The advanced capabilities provided by the small unmanned aerial system, particularly enhanced vertical access, could extend the use of such systems for detecting and locating gas sources.
Robotics Light Up Skin with Stretchability
Electroluminescent skin stretches up to six times its size.
Tamper-Proof Tracking Device for Fleet Vehicles
Wireless GPS tracking device is said to be tamper-proof.
Protecting the Grid by Bolstering Cybersecurity
Through research initiatives and more robust standards, the U.S. aims to better protect against cybersecurity and resiliency vulnerabilities in the electric power grid.
Webb Telescope Passes Cryo Tests, Now "Optically Complete"
The testing is critical because at the instruments' final destination in space—one million miles from Earth—they will operate at minus-387 degrees Fahrenheit.
Wearable Patch Monitors Sweat, Treats Diabetes
Precise measurements of sweat glucose concentrations are used to gauge blood glucose levels. If abnormally high levels are detected, a drug is released into the bloodstream via microneedles.
Advanced Mine Detection Technology Being Developed
Because Colombia's many landmines were not industrially manufactured, but rather assembled from various everyday objects, they are almost impossible to detect via traditional methods.
Next-Generation Non-Reciprocal Antenna Designed
The research team’s design is an antenna that can break reciprocity, or the natural symmetry in radiation that characterizes conventional antennas.
Life Imitates Art: Nike Unveils Self-Tying Shoes
Although the HyperAdapt 1.0 calls to mind the "power-lacing" shoes worn by Marty McFly in the Back to the Future movie series, Nike insists that the technology is no gimmick.
New Standard Aims to Foster Smarter Factories
The AutomationML for OPC UA specification is intended to help manufacturers achieve interoperability.
DARPA, Lockheed Developing Ways to Keep Chips Cooler
Lockheed Martin has demonstrated a microfluidic cooling approach that resulted in a fourfold reduction in thermal resistance and a corresponding sixfold increase in RF output power.
Flexible Skin Traps Radar Waves, Cloaks Objects
By stretching and flexing the polymer meta-skin, it can be tuned to reduce the reflection of a wide range of radar frequencies.
Suicide Bomb Detector Readied for Market
The software analyzes both horizontal and vertical polarized signals to determine the presence of a potential threat.
Stretchable Electronics That Don’t Lose Conductivity
A research team expects the film to work for purposes from artificial skin applications to creating sensors.
Cyborg Patch for Cardiac Care
A heart patch may offer a therapeutic alternative to heart transplants.
Laser-Based Aircraft Tracking Could Aid Relief Efforts
Hyperion could allow drones engaged in disaster monitoring and other humanitarian missions to send detailed images more rapidly back to the ground for analysis.
Chip-Embedded Carts Give Retailers Marketing Data
The sensors that are installed in carts and baskets emit a short wave signal via Bluetooth to a set of receivers located in the ceiling, which in turn send the information to the cloud.
Autonomous Vehicles Adapt to Infrastructure Challenges
Infrastructure owners can do a few things to make an autonomous car’s job easier, but the onus is on self-driving vehicles to adapt.