They come in different shapes and sizes and play a vital role in modern manufacturing and beyond. Piezoelectric actuators are a deceptively simple piece of technology with myriad applications in ...

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Researchers from MIT and other institutions have developed a new type of actuator -- a mechanical component relying on movement -- that works in extremely hot environments. Their newly developed ...

Phase-change actuation has been revived for the era of untethered, electrically driven soft robots. Our team at the University of Coimbra have developed a phase transition soft actuator designed to ...

Chang, B, Chew, A, Naghshin, N, and Menon, C (2012) A spatial bending fluidic actuator: fabrication and quasi-static characteristics, Smart Materials and Structures ...

Electric rodless actuators carry heavy loads more accurately than rod-style actuators, and are more compact. However, rodless actuator specification requires precise definition of the loads, inertias, ...

One of the oldest, most versatile and inexpensive of materials -- paper -- seemingly springs to life, bending, folding or flattening itself, by means of a low-cost actuation technology. One of the ...

HOUSTON – (March 6, 2023) – Rice University materials scientist Boris Yakobson and collaborators uncovered a property of ferroelectric 2D materials that could be exploited as a feature in future ...