A 12V linear actuator consists of a motor, gearbox, actuator rod, and lead screw. When powered, the motor rotates the gearbox, which drives the lead screw to extend or retract the actuator rod. This ...

When just a little shove for a door or the ability to pop something up out of an enclosure is all you need, finding just the right actuator can be a chore. Unless someone has done the work for you ...

Smart valves and actuators offer steadily developing opportunities in industrial fluid management, with precise and ...

At MD&M West 2025, Henry Kim, a regional sales engineer at Harmonic Drive, demonstrated advancements in actuator design.

Patrick Danner from Empa's Laboratory for Functional Polymers is working on actuators made of soft materials. Artificial muscles don't just get robots moving: One day, they could support people at ...

The linear actuator that moves the laser may not be the longest or the strongest, but it’s free, and we’ve seen plenty of little X-Y tables using CD drives. It’s these mechanisms that ...