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BSAC researchers will be presenting recent advances in microsystems and sensor technologies at Transducers 2025 in Orlando, Florida - 29 June-3 July, 2025.

The program includes BSAC papers, posters, and an invited talk by BSAC Co-Director Professor Liwei Lin.

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The Sputtering Target Division of KOBELCO RESEARCH INSTITUTE, a subsidiary of Kobe Steel, Ltd., has been developing original sputtering targets for new thin films, proposing a wide range of industrial applications in FPD, Optical Discs, and power electronics field. The Electronics Research Laboratory of Kobe Steel, Ltd has a long experiences with sputtering, micro fabrication and testing systems and is responsible for the development...

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Like a bumblebee flitting from flower to flower, a new insect-inspired flying robot created by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, can hover, change trajectory and even hit small targets. Less than 1 centimeter in diameter, the device weighs only 21 milligrams, making it the world’s smallest wireless robot capable of controlled flight.

“Bees exhibit remarkable aeronautical abilities, such as navigation, hovering and pollination, that artificial flying robots of similar scale fail to do,” said...