A new synthetic material that creates a linked sensory network similar to a biological nervous system could enable soft robots to sense how they interact with their environment and adjust th... Read more
The Art of Sensing within the Skin The art of tattooing may have found a diagnostic twist. A team of scientists in Germany have developed permanent dermal sensors that can be applied as arti... Read more
Imperial academics have developed low-cost, smartphone-linked, eco-friendly spoilage sensors for meat and fish packaging. These sensors are cheap enough that we hope supermarkets could use t... Read more
Simon Fraser University and Swiss researchers are developing an eco-friendly, 3D printable solution for producing wireless Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensors that can be used and disposed of w... Read more
Rice-led simulations show unique ceramic could act as a sensor for structures A ceramic that becomes more electrically conductive under elastic strain and less conductive under plastic strai... Read more
Farmers can already use drones to soar over huge fields and monitor temperature, humidity or crop health. But these machines need so much power to fly that they can’t get very far without ne... Read more
Rice University researchers develop method to transfer entire 2D circuits to any smooth surface What if a sensor sensing a thing could be part of the thing itself? Rice University engineers... Read more