Usually, when you need to sense something in a project, the answers are straightforward. Want to sense air temperature? There’s a sensor for that. Particulate content in the air? There’s a sensor for ...

Air sensors—also called portable, low- or lower-cost air quality sensors or sometimes “monitors”—have made it easier for people to monitor the air quality where they spend time. Because they provide ...

Robots usually leave the factory with every sensor they'll ever have bolted on. But what if they could grow new ones when ...

A moth-shaped robot used an artificial circulatory system to deliver chemical building blocks through its body and grow a ...

Avoiding the deluge of data created by the deployment of too many sensors requires a more considered approach to sensor selection and integration. Ideally, sensors should deliver just enough ...

While literally helping plants to talk is not the premise of FloraPulse, which manufactures a water sensor that embeds into a plant’s woody tissue, that’s precisely what its technology does, says ...

When is the best time to apply nitrogen? What plant response was there to fertilizer or any number of other treatments? There ...

Researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have developed a ...