Abstract: This article presents a study on pneumatic bending soft actuator (SA) coupling with revolute joint (RJ) with different boundary constraints (BCs), aimed to discover the bending performance ...

To gain control of the Valor, you need to enable the four systems. The stations may be solved in any order, but the levers need to be pulled according to the Airship Manual found to the right of the ...

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 ...

UD's Yaskawa Motoman Robotics Lab focuses on research related to visual servoing, metrology and calibration, real-time control and other topics relevant to industrial robotics. The lab functions as ...

A valve actuator is defined as a mechanism that opens and closes a valve. By definition it seems simple but in reality there is nothing simple about them. There are two basic valve operating designs, ...

Valworx, a manufacturer and distributor of actuated valves and controls, has announced the launch of their new line of Pneumatic/Manual combination actuators. According to its developers, the new ...

In 2012, Automation World published an article looking at the decision factors faced when choosing electric or pneumatic actuators. More than a decade later, manufacturing engineers and OEMs still ...

An insect-inspired robot that only weighs as much as a raisin can perform acrobatics and fly for much longer than any previous insect-sized drone without falling apart. For tiny flying robots to make ...

In a conventional pneumatic power system, the compressed air used to actuate a cylinder is vented to the atmosphere. This is inefficient, since the compressor must constantly pressurize air to ...

Researchers at Germany's Institute for Textile and Fiber Technologies (ITFT) have designed a pneumatically activable PV façade equipped with solar tracking systems. “FlectoSol is the first compliant, ...