New Technique Uses Power Anomalies to ID Malware in Embedded Systems
Motion Device Design Considerations for Vacuum Applications
What should you consider when selecting a vacuum compatible positioner? This article outlines the basics of a vacuum system and presents considerations to keep in mind when gathering requirements for your application. It focuses on motion control and what is essential to achieve reliable performance without compromising vacuum requirements.
Direct Drive Linear Motors: Overview and Selection Process
What should you consider when selecting a direct drive linear motor? Linear motors, one type of direct drive technology, have developed into a drive type ideal for precision motion control applications. We compare rotary and linear motors and direct and indirect drive systems, highlight benefits of linear motor types, and discuss the benefits of Zaber’s…
Utilizing Drones to Assess Transportation Infrastructure
Unmanned aerial systems (UAS, or drones) are a rapidly evolving technology that is being used for a variety of applications. With federal regulations making it easier to operate these systems with appropriate commercial certification, the number of UAS pilots has greatly increased. Over the past eight years, the Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI) in Ann…
Researchers Discover New Material to Help Power Electronics
R&D Special Focus: Virtual Reality Scientific Applications
Interactive Surfaces Enter a Whole New Dimension of Flexibility
An “interactive surface” refers to an interface whose input and output share a common surface that can be manipulated intuitively with the fingers. However, ordinary multi-touch displays, e.g., liquid crystal displays (LCD), can only provide two-dimensional information, limiting expressions and interactions with such displays to the surface. Novel three-dimensional display systems have been proposed to…
Medical Students Learn in World’s Largest Virtual Reality Anatomy Lab
Anatomy students at Taipei Medical University are now able to see every internal organ, tissue and muscle in unprecedented 3D detail, thanks to the world’s largest virtual reality (VR) anatomy lab. The lab, which opened late last year, includes 10 sets of VIVE Pro Headsets loaded with 3D Organon VR Anatomy software, allowing students to…
Fast, Flexible Ionic Transistors for Bioelectronic Devices
Many major advances in medicine, especially in neurology, have been sparked by recent advances in electronic systems that can acquire, process, and interact with biological substrates. These bioelectronic systems, which are increasingly used to understand dynamic living organisms and to treat human disease, require devices that can record body signals, process them, detect patterns, and…
New Study Tests Effectiveness, Interest for Using VR in the Classroom
As part of a multi-phase study investigating the use of virtual reality (VR) as a teaching tool, Cornell University researchers found that while students were more interested in learning using VR, actual learning rates were no different with VR than using traditional teaching methods such as hands-on activities and computer simulations. Natasha Holmes, PhD, senior…
Immersive Science Brings VR Tools to Research Labs
Running an LED in Reverse Could Cool Future Computers
Droplet Microfluidics Offers a New Approach For Studying Plant Cell Biomechanics
New Method for High-Speed Synthesis of Natural Voices
Researchers Report Advances in Stretchable Semiconductors, Integrated Electronics
Researchers from the University of Houston have reported significant advances in stretchable electronics, moving the field closer to commercialization. In a paper published Friday, Feb. 1, in Science Advances, they outlined advances in creating stretchable rubbery semiconductors, including rubbery integrated electronics, logic circuits and arrayed sensory skins fully based on rubber materials. Cunjiang Yu, Bill…
New Digital-Camera-Based System can ‘See’ Around Corners
What if your car possessed technology that warned you not only about objects in clear view of your vehicle—the way that cameras, radar, and laser can do now in many standard and autonomous vehicles—but also warned you about objects hidden by obstructions. Maybe it’s something blocked by a parked car, or just out of sight…
Noisy Frogs Inspire Wireless Sensor Network
A research team from Osaka University and the University of Tsukuba are turning to the calling patterns of male Japanese tree frogs as inspiration for wireless sensor networks. The researchers recorded the vocal interplay of three tree frogs that were placed inside individual cages. After observing that the frogs avoided overlapping croaks in favor of…
Simulating Devices in Real-world SIL and Simulator/Trainer Applications
Foldable Drone Can Navigate Through Tight Spaces
A foldable drone to fit through narrow gaps and crevices might be a useful tool to aid emergency responders in guiding them towards people trapped inside buildings or caves. Researchers from the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich and the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL has developed a new drone, which…
Computer Hardware Designed for 3D Games Could Hold the Key to Replicating Human Brain
Researchers at the University of Sussex have created the fastest and most energy efficient simulation of part of a rat brain using off-the-shelf computer hardware. Dr James Knight and Prof Thomas Nowotny from the University of Sussex’s School of Engineering and Informatics have beaten a top 50 supercomputer by running brain simulations using their own…
Phononic Devices Could Lead to Next-Gen Technology
Scientists have developed microscopic components that could usher in the next generation of sensors, mobile phones and quantum computing. A Caltech research group has created new versions of the components that make up mobile devices called phononic devices, which have the ability to vibrate extremely fast, moving back and forth up to tens of millions…
New Metamaterial Could Improve Sound Wave Technologies
Electronics of the Future: A New Energy-Efficient Mechanism Using the Rashba Effect
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology proposed new quasi-1D materials for potential spintronic applications, an upcoming technology that exploits the spin of electrons. They performed simulations to demonstrate the spin properties of these materials and explained the mechanisms behind their behavior. Conventional electronics is based on the movement of electrons and mainly concerns their electric…