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1. Joints - The Foundation of Movement Joints are the moving links in a robotic arm. They let the arm bend, rotate, or change ...

Tiny robots smaller than a grain of rice can sense, think, and move on their own. They could one day fix tissue inside the human body.

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Distracted by Design] loves gear from the 1980s, though some of it isn’t as useful as it used to be. He happened across a ...

Actuators are the input and output devices that connect electronic, hydraulic or pneumatic control systems to their environment. They convert external forces or conditions, such as temperature, into a ...

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Abstract: The piezoelectric actuator is a kind of actuation device that acts through the inverse piezoelectric effect. Due to advantages of high precision, low power consumption, compact size, and ...

Abstract: Replacing sensors with indirect sensing techniques contributes to retaining the flexibility of soft robots. By combining physical models with recurrent neural networks (which we term a ...

The arrangement of coils, magnets, and sensors is shown in the diagram below. The gap between the coils and magnets is approximately 0.5 to 1 mm. The stator position is detected using three OH49E ...