September 2022 * Vol. 46 No.9 Contents Features 10 Products of Tomorrow 14 Create the Future Design Contest: Success Story 16 NASA Space Communications Workshop Preview 18 Executive Roundtable: Collaborative Robots 22 Root of Trust: A Standardization Model that Needs to Happen Now 46 Application Briefs 52 Facility Focus: Virginia Tech College of Engineering 56 NASA Spinoff: Webb Telescope Mirror Tech Improves Eye Surgery on Earth Solutions 30 Sensors 30 Future Wearable Health Tech Could Measure Gases Released from Skin 31 Sensor Breakthrough Paves the Way for a Map of the World Under Earth's Surface 32 Ultrathin Pressure Sensor Attaches to Skin 33 Thin, Stretchable Biosensors Could Make Surgery Safer 34 Robotics & Automation 34 Advanced Humanoid Robotic Hand Technologies 35 Teaching Drones How to Navigate Real-World Weather 36 Firefly-Inspired Robotic Lightning Bugs Take Flight 37 Mechanical & Fluid Systems 37 Corrugated Rollable Tubular Boom 37 Tiny Motors to Power a Network of Nanomachines 38 Integral Tuned Mass Absorber for Turbine Blades 39 Active Flow Control System for Simple-Hinged Flaps 40 Power & Energy 40 Enhancing Solar Option During Power Outages (Power & Energy continued on page 6) 4 www.techbriefs.com Tech Briefs, September 2022 10 16 46 Departments 8 Click 12 5 Ws 13 Q&A 55 Advertisers Index New for Design Engineers 50 New on the Markethttp://www.techbriefs.com