The Ikhana unmanned aircraft system has been used by NASA last year to fight wildfires from the sky and this month to provide images of current Californian wildfires to authorities (link to NASA ...

Over the past 60 years, fiber optic sensing (FOS) has been used to enhance and test the integrity, efficiency, safety, and durability of structures, vehicles, medical devices, and more across a ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2022.200078 overviews advances in distributed fiber optic vibration/acoustic sensing technology. Distributed fiber optic ...

EDWARDS FIELD, Calif. — NASA is evaluating an advanced, fiber optic-based sensing technology that could aid development of active control of an aircraft’s wing shape. Controlling a wing’s shape in ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science; DOI 10.29026/oes.2023.220025 considers specialty optical fibers for advanced sensing applications. Optical fiber technology has changed the world in ...

NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA solicits interest from companies interested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market the following technology. License rights ...

Luna Innovations Inc. (Roanoke, VA) announced last week that it has sold the medical applications of its patented shape-sensing technology to surgical robot maker Intuitive Surgical Inc. (Sunnyvale, ...

Adding sensors to systems for purposes such as predictive maintenance is an application of growing interest in the Internet of Things (IoT) era. But if wireless sensors are not appropriate, developers ...

"Thermal confidence at the treatment site can change what's possible for next-generation vascular tools," said Charles Golub, Medical Marketing at Lightera. "Our goal is to help medical device ...