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... 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 appli... 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 c... 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 dis... 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 pla... 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... 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... Read more
Researchers at Washington State University have developed an implantable, biofuel-powered sensor that runs on sugar and can monitor a body’s biological signals to detect, prevent a... Read more
Covert sensing of objects around a corner may soon become a reality. Aristide Dogariu, a University of Central Florida Pegasus Professor of Optics and Photonics, and his colleagues... Read more
Gas-sensing drones draw NSF backing Rice University researchers, in a collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine and Houston nonprofit Technology For All (TFA), are developing a... Read more
By drawing in a bit of sweat, a patch developed in the lab of Alberto Salleo can reveal how much cortisol a person is producing. Cortisol is known as the stress hormone but is invo... Read more
