[Tristan Shone], aka Author & Punisher, found a way to make industrial music even heavier. This former mechanical engineer from Boston crafted his one-man band in the university fab labs of Southern ...

Linear actuators are a great help when you’re moving something along a single axis, but with so many options, how do you decide? [Jeremy Fielding] walks us through some of the high level tradeoffs of ...

PAL Robotics unveils its Kangaroo humanoid in a new demo, showing off balance, squats, and a surprising box-lifting test.

Bishop-Wisecarver's Pamela Kan and Brian Burke explain why expanding the linear and rotary motion solutions business to ...

K2 “Bumblebee,” releasing what it describes as China’s first demonstration of a “hybrid-architecture disturbance-resistant” ...

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 ...

Abstract: Variable stiffness actuator (VSA) can imitate natural muscles in their compliance capbility, which can provide flexible adaptability for robots, improving the safety of robots interacting ...

Abstract: Conventional stepping piezoelectric inchworm actuators typically require three piezoelectric stacks to achieve stepping motion, where their multi-drive-unit configuration increases control ...

This project is a prototype of a Smart Glove that demonstrates how finger movements can be captured and translated into mechanical motion. In this testing phase, potentiometers are used as ...

This repository contains the code, experimental setup details, and results of a project focused on PID controller tuning for a temperature regulation system. For an in-depth understanding of the ...