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Soft, flexible material performs complex calculations, paves way for smart robots

Soft elastic material uses energy-free floppy modes to perform and reprogram calculations, enabling smarter robots and ...
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Cornell Stretchable Sensor Could Redefine Soft Robotics And Virtual Reality

Cornell researchers have created a fiber-optic sensor utilizing inexpensive LEDs and dyes that resulted in a stretchable skin-like material able to detect deformations, including pressure, bending, ...
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Ceramic breakthrough leads to soft, flexible sensors for robotics, prosthetics

You might not think of ceramics as the future of robotics, but this new development will make you think again. Ceramics are ...
Electronic Design

Measure Laser Power With A Modified MEMS Pressure Sensor

As a result, commercial piezo-resistive pressure sensors must incorporate temperature compensation circuits to ensure an accurate pressure measurement. We modified a pressure sensor that offered ...
Business Wire

Micro-Measurements Introduces Miniature Strain Gage Sensor Supporting the Growing Autonomous Vehicle, Robotics, Smart Manufacturing, and Wearables Markets

MALVERN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Micro-Measurements ® brand of Vishay Precision Group, Inc. (NYSE: VPG) (www.micro-measurements.com), industry experts in the design, development, and manufacture of ...
Optics

3D-printed robot fingertip wins in Soft Robotics contest

Harvard SEAS competition rewards low-cost tactile sensor, artificial fin, deformation sensor and robot "worm". Finger printed: Components of the winning TacTip Sensor. The winners of the 2016 Soft ...
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FDGP Award to Fund Xu’s Research into Soft-Sensor Technology

Chengyi Xu, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, was recently awarded a $10,000 Faculty Development Grant Program (FDGP) award to fund his research ...