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That's kind of what happens when a person straps on the SuperFlex exosuit equipped with tiny motors called actuators from SRI Robotics.

By means of a circuit board, the actuators send the movements to the pins above.

«The incorporation of sensors, actuators and connectivity across the factory floor, into cars and into our homes has massively expanded the digital surface area in which software can optimize business and consumer processes,» says Keith Weiss, Equity Analyst covering U.S. Software.

The main functions of the thermoforming packaging machines are being controlled by using Mitsubishi PLC and servo actuator and its motor, Schneider Electric electrical components and colourful LCD touch screens.

A TV lift is one of the easier pieces of equipment to automate at home, since at its core it simply involves linear actuators moving a TV up and down into a pre-defined space.

From the humble beginnings of TV lifts and linear actuators (to learn more visit https://www.progressiveautomations.com), home automation has grown to encompass entire houses and homes, with smart technology being the beginning of an entirely new eras of what we can do with technology.

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It comes with eight ounces of actuator fluid to help you get the best application out of your clear coat every time.

He says GM will make sure there is better control of the clutches and actuators that shift the gears, so that the gears respond in a way that pleases the driver.

Touch and go The N.C. State researchers are experimenting with two different approaches they hope will cut the costs and energy requirements of Braille displays in the future, and presented their latest research at the International Conference on Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices in San Diego last month.

A middle - ear implant consists of a tiny sensor that detects the ossicles» vibrations and an actuator that helps drive the stapes accordingly.

Frias's device includes a network of sensors and actuators placed on the implant during surgery.

In attacking the air - blurred starlight, his weapon of choice will be a run - of - the - mill adaptive optics system augmented by another more «extreme» version that uses 2,000 computer - controlled actuators to correct atmospheric distortions by flexing a deformable mirror more than 3,600 times per second.

As the scanner pokes its prey (here, a small, green plastic frog) with a needle - like probe driven by a tiny motor, a light sensor detects contact between probe and object with an accuracy of 30 micrometers, and a linear actuator translates the rotation of the Lego gears into linear distance at a resolution of 6.25 micrometers.

Most of these designs have rigid skeletons and joints driven by electric or pneumatic actuators.

As if all this weren't enough, the system transmitted the predictions over a high - speed Internet connection to Kyoto, Japan, and into the actuators of a robot named CB - 1 (for Computational Brain), which was designed to have a remarkably humanlike range of motion.

The crushing began with force applied by eight hydraulic actuators, each capable of exerting a quarter - million pounds of force to the can.

An air gap lies sandwiched between these components and an underlying gold plate; the width of the gap is controlled by an electrostatic actuator — a thin gold film that sits atop the cantilever and bends toward the plate when a voltage is applied.

By applying a small, direct - current voltage to the electrostatic actuator that squeezes the gap shut, Roxworthy and Aksyuk altered the optical frequency at which the resonator vibrates and the intensity of the laser light the system reflects.

Steven Collins of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and colleagues showed off several robots that use a «passive - dynamic» control system involving simple actuators and motors to create an energy - efficient gait that depends on gravity.

In a study recently published online in the journal Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Dr. Shalini Prasad, professor of bioengineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, and her co-authors demonstrated the capabilities of a biosensor they designed to reliably detect and quantify glucose in human sweat.

This is due, at least in part, to their articulated soft wing architecture, and the fact that wing flexibility amplifies the motion of the robot's actuators.

It could also create a new area of soft robotics, and enable new applications in flexible sensors and actuators, biomedical devices and platforms or scaffolds for cells to grow, Lee said.

The rover's drives now use steering motors on only the rear wheels, following a temporary jam of the left - front wheel's steering actuator this month.

These soft robots, made of soft artificial muscle and ultrathin deformable sensors and actuators, have significant advantages over the traditional rigid robots used for automation and other physical tasks.

He and his colleagues have now developed a range of vibrating mini electric motors known as tactile actuators, or «tactors», and tested them in various configurations.

Using a high - speed actuator as the driving source of pump, they succeeded in producing a flow with 16 microseconds for cell sorting.

A new generation of lead - free piezoelectric materials could lead to greener actuators, sensors and even ultra-dense data storage.

This study, which is published in the «Sensors and Actuators A» journal, is the starting point for new research the team is already involved in to develop multisensor systems that increase the capacity to differentiate complex mixtures of volatile substances.

Dr. Gradinaru's research interests focus on developing tools and methods for neuroscience (optogenetic actuators and sensors; tissue clearing and imaging) as well as on investigating the mechanisms underlying deep brain stimulation (DBS) and on the long - term effects of DBS on neuronal health, function, and ultimately behavior.

A total of 630 possible actuators could be assembled from two segments, each with a different combined response.

A team of researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) has engineered a new, soft actuator that harnesses the power of instability to trigger instantaneous movement.

This has been most challenging as fish use a lot of different muscles to move, and many actuators are required to enable the robot to move in the same manner.

These soft actuators harnessed the power of snap - through instabilities to trigger large outputs with small inputs of fluid.

These actuators require large amounts of air or water to change shape, making the machines slow, bulky and difficult to untether.

The Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center and the National Institutes of Health helped support this work.

The days of a battery - powered exosuit for high - performance runners are still beyond the horizon, as the actuator unit (including motors, electronics, and power supply) in this study was off - board, but the authors say technology is moving toward making an untethered assistive exosuit possible in the near future.

«The protocol teaches every step of building a bio-bot, from 3D printing the skeleton to tissue engineering the skeletal muscle actuator, including manufacturers and part numbers for every single thing we use in the lab,» explained Ritu Raman, now a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Bioengineering and first author of the paper, «A modular approach to the design, fabrication, and characterization of muscle - powered biological machines.»

«While we can imagine such a material consisting of little patches that each include an actuator, sensor and little computer, we have a hard time imagining such a complex piece of technology could ever be affordable,» he said.

Whereas other actuators powered by electricity or combustion could cause damage to humans or their surroundings, loss of vacuum pressure in VAMPs would simply render the actuator motionless.

Whereas previous soft actuators rely on pressurized systems that expand in volume, VAMPs mimic true muscle because they contract, which makes them an attractive candidate for use in confined spaces and for a variety of purposes.

When asked about the durability of SRI's dielectric elastomer actuators, von Guggenberg acknowledges a need for more study but attests to a «reasonable indication» that they continue to work sufficiently long for commercial use: «For example, we ran a device for one client that produces moderate, 5 to 10 percent strains for 10 million cycles.»

The effect now found in the two - dimensional magnetic structures comes with the promise that it will be of practical use in nanoscale devices, such as magnetic nanomotors, actuators, or sensors.

For decades, engineers who build actuators, or motion - generating devices, have sought an artificial equivalent of muscle.

As a demonstration of how effectively piezoceramics can perform as actuators, it is impressive.

Connecting the head to the handle are two actuators that can push and pull each side in different directions, generating up to 60 g, a force equivalent to 60 times the gravitational pull of Earth, a bit less than the 100 g routinely generated during a tennis match.

«The actuators developed through this collaboration between the Wood laboratory at Harvard and Rus group at MIT exemplify the Wyss» approach of taking inspiration from nature without being limited by its conventions, which can result in systems that not only imitate nature, but surpass it,» says the Wyss Institute's Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at HMS and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, as well as Professor of Bioengineering at SEAS.

The rover will be delayed to address a «backlog of unresolved work» and undiagnosed problems with the rover's actuators, motor - driven gears that move the spacecraft's wheels, bend its robotic arm, and drive its drill, NASA administrator Mike Griffin told reporters.

«Incorporating intelligence into the body (via specific folding patterns, in the case of our actuators) has the potential to simplify the algorithms needed to direct the robot to achieve its goal.

«There are other soft actuators that have been developed, but this one is most similar to muscle in terms of response time and efficiency.»