Future Concepts division
With expertise across numerous areas, including developing solutions for a more sustainable world and creating a digital future for the workplace, the Future Concepts division puts a premium on developing integrated concepts for complex problems and driving and catalyzing collaboration across SRI. Our labs focus on basic research and real-world applications by creating and maturing breakthrough technologies.
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Researchers aim to disrupt how new materials are leveraged in the design process
SRI chosen by DARPA to develop next-generation computational design of metallic parts and intelligent testing of alloys.
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SRI researchers develop rugged, low-cost, drifting sensors to learn more about the oceans
PEARL drifters pack an array of sensors into a compact autonomous device to gather data and signs of activity.
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SRI Honors Women’s Progress: Paying Tribute to Women’s History Month
We foster environments where women can innovate, lead, and contribute.
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SRI develops a new system that can spray liquids that others can’t
A new spray-drying technology could cut high energy costs and increase efficiency across large industries.
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SRI builds an AI-enabled system that guides users through complex physical tasks
Wearable cameras and microphones enable the system to provide feedback through voice, text, and graphics.
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Nazly Pirmoradi: Exploring 3D Pharmaceutical Printing
A senior research scientist at SRI pushes the frontier of how we make and take medicine.
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SRI Commemorates Women’s Impact: Honoring Women’s History Month
We foster environments where women can innovate, lead, and contribute.
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SRI relaunches the PARC Forum
The PARC Forum brings together some of the world’s leading thinkers for thought-provoking conversations at the intersection of technology, business, and society.
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SRI announces its new Future Concepts division — and a renewed focus for the PARC campus that draws on its heritage
The division will continue to thrive as a place where extraordinary people and ideas come together to bring technology into the world.
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Julie Bert: We consider from the earliest stages how to bring ideas into the world
The director of SRI’s Hardware Research & Technology Lab: “Our goal is to have impact on the world around us.”
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An SRI aerogel aims to sponge up CO2 from air and exhaust
A new sorbent could remove CO2 from ambient air better than other known materials and has the potential to lower the cost of carbon capture.
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SRI’s new paint provides a sustainable passive cooling solution
Researchers have developed self-cooling paint that reflects sunlight and radiates excess heat out into space.