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January 5, 2018

Silicon Stagnation

How Emerging Technologies and Non-Traditional Materials Are Changing the Future of MEMS
by Amelia Dalton

In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, MEMS and sensors visionary Alissa Fitzgerald and I chat about emerging technologies in the MEMS and sensors ecosystem. We investigate how research and development is changing the MEMS landscape and why Alissa thinks that silicon sensor technology could be at risk of stagnation due to waning research efforts. Also this week, we check out the details of a new “sweaty” humanoid robot named Kengoro and the future of silicon carbide transistor technology.

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Links for January 5, 2018

More information about AM Fitzgerald

More information about the 2017 MEMS and Sensors Executive Congress

Whitepaper: Design principles of a human mimetic humanoid: Humanoid platform to study human intelligence and internal body system

Video: Kengoro in Action

More information about Atlas – Humanoid Robot from Boston Dynamics

New Episode of Chalk Talk: Unleash SiC MOSFETS: Extract the Best Performance

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