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Strides in Soft Robotics
Soft robots have become an area of interest due to the fact that they would make possible tasks and environments previously unachievable by traditional and rigid robotic systems.
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Frequency Dividers Cover 0.5 to 18 GHz Range
Pasternack’s new line of high-reliability?frequency dividers cover wide frequency bandwidths from 0.5 to 18 GHz and are available?in 2, 4, 5, 8 and 10 divide-by-prescaler configurations.
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Soft 3D-Printed "Octobot" Contains Absolutely No Rigid Electronics
The small, 3-D-printed robot, which the team calls “octobot,” paves the way for a new generation of entirely soft, autonomous machines with the potential to change the way humans interact with machines.
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Open-Frame AC/DC Supply Produces 250 W
The CPS-250M open-frame power supply from Artesyn Embedded Technologies delivers 250 W in an industry-standard 2 x 4 in. form factor.
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Linear Current Regulators and Controllers Control Automotive LED Lights
The A6274 and A6284 linear current regulators offer pre-regulator gate drive that minimizes power losses to extend output power capability.
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High-Voltage Capacitors Are Good to 200° C
Kemet’s HV-HT surface mount multilayer ceramic capacitors are now offered in EIA 2824, 3040, 3640 and 4540 case sizes.
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Zinc-Ion Batteries Cut Costs for Grid Energy Storage
Researchers from the University of Waterloo have developed a long-lasting zinc-ion battery that’s 50% cheaper than current lithium-ion batteries.
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Samsung Unveils Two Curved Gaming Monitors
The monitors include quantum dot and AMD’s FreeSync technologies.
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Flexible VNA Coax Cables Introduced for Test Labs
The cables can be used in chip probe testing, precise bench top testing or lab/production testing.
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Vishay Adds Ferrite Bead Impedance Calculator to Website
Vishay has added an online ferrite bead impedance calculator that enables designers to quickly find the impedance of the company’s most popular surface-mount ferrite beads.
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Future Electronics, Microsemi Team on Low-cost Development Board
Future Electronics and Microsemi have introduced a development board costing under $50. The board, which incorporates a 25k logic element (LE) FPGA.
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Dialog Semiconductor Enters the GaN Chip Market
The company’s first semiconductor will target fast-charging smartphones and computer adapters.
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Sigma Labs Launches Inspection Software
Sigma Labs’ PrintRite3D® INSPECT™ software v1.3.2 incorporates alloy-specific temperature correction algorithms, improved reporting and enhanced graphics both layer-by-layer and part-by-part.
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Blind-mate Connectors Carry 16 A
Brad® M12 Power F-Coded cordsets and receptacles carry up to 16.0 A per pin with a blind-mate key design.
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High-voltage Ceramic Capacitor Line Adds New Sizes
High-voltage ceramic capacitors offer additional case sizes and increased capacitances with voltages up to 2,000 V.
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Shatter-Resistant LED Bulb Introduced to Withstand Rugged Environments
Lighting Science’s new Durabulb can be used in the home but is tough enough to be used in industrial applications.
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Nvidia Reveals Details to its Autonomous Driving Chip
The Parker system-on-chip consists of two 64-bit Denver processors paired with four 64-bit ARM Cortex A57 CPUs.
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Membrane May Give Electric Cars More Miles per Minute of Charging
“Smart” membrane keeps rechargeable batteries from discharging when not in use and allows for rapid recharging.
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New Energy Storage Material Developed for Electric Vehicles
The key to boosting energy storage in electric and hybrid vehicles may be a polymer sandwich.
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Synaptics SecurePad Now on High-Performance Clevo Notebooks
Natural ID Biometric Authentication Integrated with TouchPad, Enabling Users to Replace Unsafe Passwords.
