RS, a high-service global product and service solutions provider for industrial customers, offers a wide range of IMI ...

Engines have been using pneumatic actuators to move loads for decades. They are fast, up to 0.5 sec/stroke; powerful, with up to 40,000 lbf behind each stroke; and engineers can easily fine-tune ...

Pneumatic actuators offer interesting perspectives in applications like soft robotics and interaction design. [Aidan Leitch] makes his own pneumatic actuators from silicone rubber. His actuators ...

Latin America: Although the Latin American market faces economic and political uncertainties, there is steady demand for ...

The debate surrounding the pros and cons of electric and pneumatic actuators has been raging for years and still no easy answer exists. Here, with the help of Bimba Manufacturing, we focus on the core ...

Pneumatic actuators can be powerful and fast, making them very useful for all kinds of mechanical jobs. [Michael Rechtin] decided that while he could buy them off-the-shelf, he preferred to see if ...

If your control loops can’t closely follow a setpoint, chances are your plant is equipped with pneumatic actuators—and its heat rate is higher than it could be. Anything short of perfect ...

Unless you have strict time requirements or air consumption requirements, it is a good idea to oversize the cylinder. Joe Malloy is chief engineer for Numatics Actuators in Franklin, Tenn.

The work has been described in Science Robotics and the researchers showcased the actuators’ versatility in an initial demonstration, a pneumatic hand comprising 18 different GRACEs ...