Nanoporous platinum, a platinum matrix containing tiny pores to increase energy conduction, has recently been created in large quantities for the first time, for trial use as an actuator material ...

New soft robots are mimicking the function of human muscle protein, myosin, that generate large, unrestricted moves through ...

Spanish startup YPlasma has secured $2.5 million in seed funding to further develop its fanless plasma-based cooling ...

The global market for Linear Actuators is expected witness revenues plummet by -14. 2% in the year 2020 and thereafter recover and grow to reach US$37. 2 billion by the year 2027, trailing a post ...

‘We believe our micro-actuator is more efficient and powerful than any current micro-scale actuation technology, including human muscle cells,’ said Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley scientist Junqiao Wu ...

Piezoelectric actuators are a deceptively simple piece of technology with myriad applications in various industries. These devices convert an electrical signal into a carefully controlled physical ...

While smartphones use autofocus actuators and electromagnetic actuators including voice coil motors (VCMs), these actuators are unreliable for achieving active athermalization in embedded vision ...

Complex motions for simple actuators Inflatable actuators use origami principles to deform in intricate ways Date: July 16, 2022 Source: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied ...