3D-printed spring deploys on small commercial spacecraft

With a simple motion, a jack-in-the-box-like spring designed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed the potential of additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, to cut costs and complexity ...
IEEE

All-Polymer Arc-shaped 3D FBG Array Bionic Tactile Sensor and Its Application in Multidirectional Robotic Finger Force Identification

Abstract: A fully polymer-based flexible arc-shaped three-dimensional (3D) fiber Bragg grating (FBG) array bionic tactile sensor is presented, in which both the FBG array and the encapsulation layer ...
IEEE

Design of Non-Uniform 3-D Arrays for Near-Field XL-MIMO Communications

Abstract: In this letter, a general design criterion is proposed for optimizing non-uniform three-dimensional (3D) arrays to enhance near-field capacity in extremely large-scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) ...
Medical Xpress

A 3D-printed delivery system enhances vaccine delivery via microneedle array patch

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted an urgent need for efficient, durable, and widely accessible vaccines. This prompted several important innovations in vaccine technology, and researchers continue to ...