Researchers have developed contact lenses with embedded sensors that measure the pressure inside the eye and send the information to an ophthalmologist for evaluation. It’s hoped that the lens will ...

Close quarters can make the specification process tricky for magnetostrictive sensors that have no external housings. MTS System Corp. Cary, N.C. Magnetostriction as a positionsensing technique has ...

Ask Josep Montanyà, CEO of Nanusens, why the Internet of Things (IoT) has never been able to take off as predicted, and he’d explain how it’s because the costs of sensors were too great, the size too ...

A team of engineers, physicists and biologists is seeking to create insect cyborgs—creatures with a mixture of organic and mechanical parts that could be used for military applications. The ...

Fig. 1. Strip-type deformation sensors. One ply of cured carbon fiber/epoxy prepreg to be monitored is used as a thin, flexible sheet with optical fibers — one embedded in the upper surface and one in ...