News tagged with force sensor

Synthetic scent hounds: Nanostructured sensor for detection of very low concentrations of explosive

To prevent terrorist attacks at airports, it would be helpful to detect extremely low concentrations of explosives easily and reliably. Despite the development of various sensor technologies, dogs continue ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Shocking new way to create nanoporous materials revealed

Scientists have developed a new method of creating nanoporous materials with potential applications in everything from water purification to chemical sensors.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 27, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers ink nanostructures with tiny 'soldering iron'

Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shed light on the role of temperature in controlling a fabrication technique for drawing chemical patterns as small as 20 nanometers. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Flying carpet': Princeton team's plastic sheet can hover above ground (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A thin sheet of plastic has been making headlines at Princeton as a magical flying carpet, after the publication of a paper describing experiments by the team with their prototype sheet of ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 01, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 8 | with audio podcast weblog

Heated AFM tip allows direct fabrication of ferroelectric nanostructures on plastic

Using a technique known as thermochemical nanolithography (TCNL), researchers have developed a new way to fabricate nanometer-scale ferroelectric structures directly on flexible plastic substrates that would ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

KUKA makes a robot that knows what it is picking up (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Making a robot that can pick things up is not really a challenge anymore. Provided you calibrate your force sensors correctly the task is fairly simple. Making a robot that knows what it is picking up is ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

MEADS radar completes rotation tests, prepares to move to test range

The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program has successfully completed milestone tests as the first Multifunction Fire Control Radar (MFCR) advances toward system tests this year at Pratica di Mare ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New sensor exploits traditional weakness of nano devices

By taking advantage of a phenomenon that until now has been a virtual showstopper for electronics designers, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Panos Datskos is developing a chemical and biological sensor with ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 12, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New robot skier takes to the slopes (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new robot skier has been invented that can be fitted with off-the-shelf skis. This is not the first skiing robot, since Japanese scientists have produced their own (see PhysOrg.com article here), but is bigger and heavie ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 weblog

DNA-Based Assembly Line for Nano-Construction of New Biosensors, Solar Cells (w/Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Building on the idea of using DNA to link up nanoparticles — particles measuring mere billionths of a meter — scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 3

Improved sensor technology could someday keep tabs on terrorists by remote control

Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology are designing a new kind of optical sensor to fly in unmanned air vehicles, or surveillance drones, tracking suspects on foot or traveling in vehicles identified as a threat.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers see exotic force for first time

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, researchers have measured a long-theorized force that operates at distances so tiny they’re measured in billionths of a meter, which may have important applications in ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 17