An external air pump is used to power the actuators.
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"When equipped with a small needle, the SMA-based actuators produced much greater penetration force into the skin than the bioelectric actuators and allowed the team to significantly miniaturize the device," writes IEEE Spectrum.
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Controls in the cockpit drive more than 20 joints and actuators.
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Actuators, though, inevitably produce heat, in Kengoro or any other robot.
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The device mimics a real kiss using pressure sensors and actuators.
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Actuators are the components in machines that are responsible for movement.
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The workers have actuators to help the overall platform unit steer.
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The technical term for the artificial muscles that make a soft robot move is "actuators," and historically these actuators have relied on hydraulic or pneumatic components (which make use of liquids or compressed gases, respectively) to function.
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Elastic bands inside the actuators pop them open into stiff rectangular boxes.
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It's like using braille but through a system of actuators and sensors.
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The robot has soft actuators that inflate and deflate, essentially mimicking breathing.
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Well, simplistic components of robots—the actuators, or motors, that power them.
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Linear actuators then move the sphere by shifting its centre of gravity.
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Each hand has six actuators that allow it to pinch and close.
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Controlled by linear actuators these form the contours of a 3D face.
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The sensor then tells "actuators" to reshape how the liquid lenses are curved.
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All those sensors, processing, and upgraded actuators take up a ton of space.
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Instead of the usual electric motors, its motion is powered by piezoelectric actuators.
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What didn't exist is basically the exoskeleton for the robot arms, the actuators.
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It's connected to an external pump, which uses air to power the soft actuators.
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Kengoro's 116 actuators instead pull on wires that mimic the contraction of human muscles.
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His ankle actuators give him the power to climb one foot to a stair.
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That low cost is yet another benefit of eliminating costly extra actuators and gearing.
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The foldable actuators in the robotic arm fold and unfold in an ingenious way.
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Generally one thinks of robots as powerful, rigid things packed with motors and actuators.
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The edible actuators that their team invented measure about three to five centimeters in length.
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Two of these actuators put together could create a gripper, Floreano said in an interview.
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Alter has 42 pneumatic actuators and a "central pattern generator," according to Engadget's Mat Smith.
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But that's all that's needed to power Robobee's actuators and flapping wings—at least briefly.
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The rear spoiler raises, lowers, and tilts, using a combination of motors and pneumatic actuators.
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For now, the latest generation of well pads use electric valve actuators, cutting methane emissions.
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Each one of Big Dog's four legs includes four separate hydraulic actuators and two sensors.
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With their thousands of connected sensors, valves and actuators, power stations also make for attractive targets.
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For now, AxonVR's prototype is a flat array of actuators attached to a large silver box.
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It responds to touch and voice, and 22 actuators enable more realistic movement than previous models.
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We also spent time with Hebi, whose modular robotic actuators commercialized versions of the lab's research.
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This is what they were hoping to mimic, only swapping out eel muscles for hydraulic actuators.
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The system was also capable of moving a pair of robotic actuators to actually create movement.
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"Compared to expanding actuators, contraction is more similar to the function of biological muscle," she said.
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Europe's competition watchdog required United Technologies sell businesses making actuators, pilot controls, ice protection and oxygen systems.
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SMAC's low friction guide system makes their actuators extremely repeatable from move to move - within 1 msec.
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For these reasons, single-legged hopping robots provide an ideal benchmark for actuators used in legged locomotion.
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It incorporates a bunch of sensors, cameras, and actuators to activate the pup and keep it interactive.
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Actuators substitute for muscles, solar cells substitute for an insect fueling itself with food, and so on.
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You can't put the best sensors, best actuators, best components, and best intelligence into a home robot.
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The machine consists of 20 computers, 350 sensors and 50 actuators that form a robotic assembly line.
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"These new bending actuators could have immediate application," said professor at Australia's University of Wollongong Geoffrey Spinks.
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"Lofelt's technology offers three distinct advantages compared to other solutions: Our actuators are completely silent, the audio-driven concept drives our actuators over a wide frequency band, producing ultra-realistic haptic feedback, [and our] software is designed in conjunction with our hardware, resulting in optimum power, control and efficiency".
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The team claimed that their custom actuators (basically a robot's muscles) were ten times stronger than competing designs.
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Open up a robotic arm and you'll find that its joints are actually electric motors, known as actuators.
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The "soft pneumatic gelatin actuators" in question are the squishy-looking fingers you can see above and below.
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In order to make the display a speaker, Sony mounted two actuators to the back of the display.
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Continental's system replaces speakers with actuators, which are tiny transducers similar to the core of a traditional speaker.
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How it works: Wirelessly induced electrical currents are delivered to the robot's "muscles" — mechanical actuators — to activate them.
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But now, it's actually robots, with their actuators, that are fueling the secret ascendence of the electric motor.
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Instead, it adapts the sensors and actuators needed for driverless plowing to existing tractors produced by major manufacturers.
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It's composed of over 200 actuators, which sounds like a lot, but isn't enough to completely fool our skin.
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Haptic feedback would be provided by actuators, which would give a response for each time you "press" a key.
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Image credit: NASA/MSFC/David HigginbothamThe mirrors are connected to actuators, a tiny system of precision motors and gears.
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Next, AI, in combination with sensors and actuators, will be the brain of a new generation of autonomous machines.
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The actuators are attached behind panels in the car, and create micro-vibrations that are then carried by surfaces.
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The scaly skin is easy to make, and it saves engineers the pain of making actuators to enable movement.
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Each mirror segment has six actuators to position it, aligning to shape the primary mirror so it can focus.
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It also features surround-sound and actuators that move the vehicle as it would when accelerating, braking or cornering.
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The literal beat box is made with linear actuators, or machine components that create motion along a straight path.
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Actuators make robots leap and run and do backflips and lift 500-pound pipes (different robots, mind you, thank God).
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"AI, in combination with sensors and actuators, will be the brain of a new generation of autonomous machines," said Huang.
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But what's special about the actuators is that they can be folded flat, so that the arm is stowed away.
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It's not the burliest actuator by any means, but paper actuators could well carve out their own niche in robotics.
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There are 22 axes of movement in all, powered by Sony's new proprietary actuators, giving Aibo free and realistic movement.
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They've created a model to predict how the small, air-filled actuators deform depending on their size, shape and material.
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The Atlas robot, Big Dog's bipedal kin, offers 28 actuators, but initially it had to be powered by a cord.
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Your typical humanoid robot moves thanks to actuators—a fancy name for a motor combined with a gearbox—in its joints.
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Its haptic system uses tiny actuators that put pressure on different points of the skin, changing temperature as they do so.
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The processor then sends appropriate signals to actuators located in various places around the craft's airframe, to control its mechanical systems.
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"Living muscle cells are much more energy efficient than synthetic actuators and can be programmed to do cool things," said Parker.
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A combination of built-in sensors and software adjust the system's fabric and air actuators, providing additional support to the quadriceps.
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Better actuators will make the robot faster and more nimble, and better solar cells will theoretically let the robot operate indefinitely.
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Sony developed compact actuators that move along one or two axes, giving the cyberhound enhanced flexibility and lifelike fluidity of motion.
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Depending on the driver's wishes and the driving situation, it is capable of raising or lowering each wheel separately with electric actuators.
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But by packing these actuators into bundles, the researchers have made simple robots that act as a credible analogue to human muscles.
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His exo is the only exo in the competition with actuators on his ankles, which generate power like a human calf muscle.
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The company slapped some speaker actuators on the back of the Bravia XBR-A1E OLED, which turns the TV itself into speakers.
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These actuators are a brand-new invention just for the James Webb Space Telescope, allowing near optical perfection with near-nanometer adjustments.
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A team of Facebook engineers was shown experimenting with hearing through skin using a system of actuators tuned to 16 frequency bands.
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What potentially sets EPFL's research apart is the creation of fully digestible actuators that can be broken down by the human body.
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When the high voltage is applied to two components called piezoelectric actuators, they bend and contract, much as an insect's muscles would.
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The thin silicone sleeve is equipped with air-driven (pneumatic) actuators, which are placed around the heart to mimic its outer muscular layers.
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In order to give Affetto's face more humanistic expressions, the researchers developed a version with a lot more pneumatic actuators behind the skin.
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But instead of just two servo motors, those fine are each powered by eight actuators that increase its strength and rigidity as needed.
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Certain pre-coded videos played on Pornhub will send signals to these wireless devices, recreating the action on screen with motors and actuators.
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To be more useful than a wheel, a robotic leg requires at least three actuators/degrees of freedom, according to the Mälardalen paper.
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He estimated he would need, for Keck, 36 such tiles, 168 sensors on their edges and 108 motorised "actuators" to keep them perfectly aligned.
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Paired with the haptic actuators are several speakers underneath the bench, which emit character and effect-specific sounds to heighten the sense of reality.
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High precision force sensors register a user's lip movements and miniature linear actuators replicate those movements on the device of the person being kissed.
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Using actuators and sensors, a connected armband was able to convey to a woman in the video a tactile vocabulary of nine different words.
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Instead, the elastic actuators that make up the robot's legs conform to the surface it's walking on, and the robot shifts its weight accordingly.
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You can install thousands of independently tweakable, computer-controlled actuators that continuously adjust each surface panel, keeping the telescope in focus, but, again: expensive.
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That's because it uses a pair of trackpads, complete with tiny solenoid actuators for haptic feedback, so you can emulate a mouse or trackball.
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The flying machine is called the Monospinner and is billed as the "simplest, controllable, flying machine in existence" since it lacks actuators and aerodynamic surfaces.
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It stands nearly five feet tall, weighs 170 pounds, and can walk around and move its arms with the help of 36 actuators (robot muscles).
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The actuators that generate the vibration are outside of the robot, however, as batteries small enough to be housed on their bodies simply don't exist.
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Japan's National Science Museum unveiled a new exhibit last month: a creepy-looking robot that's powered by 42 pneumatic actuators and its own neural network.
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High-density Internet of Things for industrial IoT, smart agriculture and other use cases that involve scaling sensors and actuators to thousands in close proximity.
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The most visceral collision of VR and our traditional plane of existence comes from strapping a jumpsuit covered in 26 vibrating actuators to your body.
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An improvement offered by Big Dog over prior legged robot attempts is its use of hydraulic actuators rather than independent electric motors for each joint.
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So, if the patient has more weakness on the left side of the heart, the actuators can be adjusted to offer more assistance on that side.
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In the near future, customers could be inputing biological specifics to tailor their chosen suite of sensors and actuators to integrate seamlessly with their unique biology.
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Using data collected by these sensors, the tire could then activate built-in actuators to change the shape of the surface and tread of the tire.
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The downside of pneumatic and hydraulic actuators is that they are slow to respond and rigid—which kind of defeats the whole point of soft robotics.
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With a simple wire and electric motor, the actuators can be unlocked and folded flat, retracting the arm to just 1.5 inches (40 millimeters) in length.
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In the space of 300 milliseconds, the car's optional "Predictive Active Suspension" system uses electric actuators to essentially lift each wheel just as the obstacle arrives.
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Vardakostas: Right now we have a system with 350 sensors, 20 computers, 50 actuators, and algorithms, and codes all over the place but we're finally here.
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"I reasoned that if I could lift out engines, pylons, landing gear, actuators, electricals, and cockpit stuff from 25s, it was doable for us," he says.
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The lenses themselves are filled with transparent fluid; small actuators on the edges deform the lenses to adjust the focus based on information from the distance sensor.
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Under the deal, Daimler will supply the vehicles and test facilities, while Bosch will provide the many sensors, actuators and control units used in the development process.
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There are two actuators to move the wings and control its aerial trajectory, and there's also a GPS unit that helps it know where it actually is.
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The researchers are collaborating with physical therapists to build a back-support belt with clusters of the tiny actuators that help restore motor sensitivity for stroke victims.
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It was given the go-ahead by Europe's competition watchdog on the condition that UTC first sells businesses making actuators, pilot controls, ice protection and oxygen systems.
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The mirror is connected to actuators that use electrical resonance to make it oscillate from side to side, changing the direction of the laser beam it is reflecting.
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Int-Ball contains actuators, rotational and acceleration sensors and electromagnetic brakes to help it orient in space, and JAXA is exploring the tech for other applications including satellites.
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The European Commission, which acts as the competition watchdog in the European Union, said UTC agreed to sell businesses making actuators, pilot controls, ice protection and oxygen systems.
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Using independent actuators, motors and lightweight conformal structures, lithium ion battery powered FORTIS allows soldiers to carry 180 pounds up five flights of stairs while expending less energy.
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That allowed them to develop a system they could apply to all the actuators to advance the realism of the facial movements through better control of the synthetic skin.
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Instead of placing motors (also known as actuators) at each joint, Phoenix has just two motors at the hips, a design that cuts the weight of SuitX's exoskeleton considerably.
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These "muscles" are even arranged like they are in the human body (though the analog of the human calf muscle is made of two actuators to produce enough force).
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"This breakthrough in electrically-controlled soft actuators brings us much closer to muscle-like performance in an engineered system and opens the door for countless applications in soft robotics."
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed deceptively simple actuators (the fancy term for a motor that moves a robot) made of conductive 3-D-printed material and paper.
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However, attempting to replicate this complexity is doomed to failure, as even the best joints and actuators we have are nowhere near as powerful or lightweight as bats' natural ones.
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But unlike the typical metal joinery that's powered by a motor, these edible gelatin actuators are filled with air or fluid or react to chemicals, which cause them to move.
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Sony is getting into the STEM education game with KOOV, a coding kit containing more than enough sensors, actuators, and electronic parts to bring blocky Minecraft-like robots to life.
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The efficient actuators in its legs can be repurposed for exoskeletons and mobility aids, its sensor pathways and the software behind them can inform self-driving cars and so on.
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Arduino Robotics with the mBot ($100 value) Meet mBot, a two-wheeled, Arduino-based robot equipped with sensors and actuators that you can program using the graphical programming language Scratch.
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At age 10 he designed a self-righting robot that could, in theory, traverse uneven ground while carrying a glass of water, using self-correcting feedback actuators and mercury levels.
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Powerful compute, algorithms and cheap sensors and actuators have created an opportunity for founders to build interesting automation companies that will lead to a more productive and competitive human workforce.
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The tire could also activate built-in actuators in real time to change the shape of its surface and tread depending on the current state of the road beneath it.
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From there, you can see real-time data provided by the robots' actuators, motors, and sensors, as well as program commands for fleshed out LEGO bots to receive and carry out.
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Today such haptic technology—vibrating actuators and electrical impulses that stimulate your skin receptors and nerve endings—has become both cheaper and increasingly advanced, allowing VR gamers to feel real-world discomfort.
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Using lightweight actuators, the suit moves in parallel with the body's muscles, helping with stabilizing the core while sitting down, standing up, or staying steady while standing for longer periods of time.
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The Trimark manager likes Rotok, which makes actuators, a device that plays an important part in the opening and closing of valves in the oil and gas, marine, mining and water sectors.
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We can make meaningful but reversible tweaks to the built environment by changing a digital sign, traffic signals or even controlling actuators to modify space or real-world infrastructure like escalator direction.
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In another fun twist they've added robotic actuators to the rotary wheels so the scroll can physically move or spin in place in various scenarios, such as when it receives a notification.
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Created by researchers from the Imagineering Lab at City University London, the newly prototyped Kissenger device is an iOS phone plugin that claims to mimic a real kiss using pressure sensors and actuators.
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Ultimately, 3D knit structures can become a plethora of sensors and actuators, antennae, and even allow for computer interaction through soft, knit protrusions that serve as buttons, or planar pads for gesture sensing.
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The researchers at EPF told Recode that if you combine these gelatin actuators with other edible electronics — such as ingestible batteries, chips and cameras — you could one day have a fully edible robot.
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As you walk past this automata, though, you see a fat bunch of wires leading out of its back and into a compact engine of motors and actuators — quite literally pulling the strings.
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The Utah team has already built functional prototypes (they had to develop lightweight lenses and actuators first) and the state has helped them commercialized the technology with a new startup company called SharpEyes.
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"We have an arm that pulls out the burgers, but that's probably 5 percent of the complexity" of the full Creator robot run by 350 sensors, 50 actuators and 20 computers, Vardakostas scoffs.
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A new paper released by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) details the creation of gelatin-based actuators, a technology that could bring us closer to edible robots.
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The creation of the actuators is part of the team's ongoing research into soft robotics, a sub-field of robotics inspired by nature that make for components that better comply with their environment.
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It also boasts haptic feedback far more capable than the rumble motor console gamers are used to, with highly programmable voice-coil actuators located in the left and right grips of the controller.
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To win U.S. approval, United Technologies agreed to sell two Rockwell Collins' businesses: One that sells systems that de-ice planes and one that sells trimmable horizontal stabilizer actuators that help aircraft maintain altitude.
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"Basically what you have underneath are electromechanical actuators that are synced with content that give you all of the texture of the road, all the curves," D-Box's VP Sales Yannick Gemme told TechCrunch.
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It mimics the natural behavior of knee movement during gait more accurately thanks to built in variable impedance actuators that continuously change the knee stiffness so it can adapt to irregular surfaces or obstacles.
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The microphone would be able to detect the whirr of the rover's actuators, listen as the wheels crunch across the Martian surface, and much more, allowing engineers to pick up on any potential issues.
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The state of play: Today's cars typically have as many as 100 electronic control units (ECUs), each dedicated to a separate function — the engine, the window actuators or the lane-keeping system, for example.
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Soft robots like this aren't new (supermarkets use them for handling fruit without bruising, for example), but rather than being made from plastic, these actuators are made from a combination of gelatin, glycerin, and water.
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Some engineers have looked at using soft, insulating materials called dielectric elastomers as an alternative to pneumatic actuators, but they also require rigid components and high voltage to deal with their complex and inefficient circuitry.
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"We used standard biosensors measuring skin conductance commonly associated with physiological arousal, which we integrated with our new actuators to provide a visual or tactile representation of the measured arousal," Umair said in an email.
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The video, above, shows the cube in an unsolved position and then the actuators jump into action, slamming squares into place like some kind of crazed version of Will Smith's character in The Pursuit of Happyness.
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Instead of actuators at each joint, the team used a reduced set of wing joints, letting the thin (56 micrometers), silicon membrane that stretches over the wings and dorsal tail help control wing deformity and flight.
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This is the reason there's a suitcase-sized box filled with pneumatic actuators, which the company says has been rapidly shrinking and will be much smaller by the time the product exits the dev kit phase.
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To win U.S. approval for the deal, UTC agreed to sell two Rockwell Collins' businesses - one that sells systems that de-ice planes and another that sells trimmable horizontal stabilizer actuators that help aircraft maintain altitude.
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These edible actuators are covered in gelatin, which is already used safely as an outer layer in medicine capsules available over the counter, and filled with air or fluid that reacts to chemicals, causing them to move.
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"Electricity is easy to store and deliver, but until now the electric fields required to power actuators in soft robots has been too high," said Mishu Duduta, a Harvard engineering graduate student and the paper's lead author.
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It's sort of like robotic LEGOs, and, in fact, the team that helped the snake go modular recently spun off to form HEBI, a startup that develops plug and play robotic actuators adapted from their snake design.
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There it will be chilled to the deep-space temperatures at which it will have to work, and engineers will actually focus the telescope, twiddling the controls for seven actuators on each of the 18 mirror segments.
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The DEAnsect, so called for being made of "dielectric elastomer actuators," is an attempt to create a robot that combines locomotion, intelligence and efficiency into a single package — even if it's only a little bit of each.
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HaptX Glove Pain level: Gloveless snowball fight Microfluidic actuators in the glove press into your skin to create the sensation of movement, texture, and weightiness, replicating the skittering of a spider or the sting of an ice shard.
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To further minimize the robot's weight, instead of using heavy pneumatic actuators that require hoses attached along the arm's length to pump hydraulic fluid, the Giacometti Arm takes advantage of lightweight artificial muscles to move its individual segments.
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Some cars, like certain Volkswagens, currently use actuators in different ways — like at the base of a car's windscreen to emit a fizzy noise depending on your driving mode, or in the exhaust system to enhance engine sound.
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Along with controlling the drones, the SDK will also make it possible to easily integrate third-party hardware like multispectral sensors or custom actuators with DJI's drones, expanding what customers will be able to do with their drones.
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From the journal paper:[U]nlike man-made legged robots for which many tiny parts, sensors and actuators are manufactured, assembled and integrated, the insect–computer hybrid robots directly use living insects as Nature's ready-made robot platforms.
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"The purpose is to utilize the latest in miniaturized electronics, sensors and actuators towards developing truly affordable, fully functioning spacecraft that can be rapidly launch into space in a matter of month," the researchers write in their paper.
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For hobbyists basing their own smart home-style gadgets on the Pi, the increased connectivity will help with linking up sensors and actuators—Upton gave the idea of a Bluetooth switch to turn a heater on, for instance.
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Fuel tanks wouldn't feed, engine compressors failed — causing cockpits to fill with toxic fumes — nose wheels came off, faulty tail plane actuators set trim wrong and airplanes flying at high speeds and low levels dove into the ground.
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In our case, and what I saw and the reason I ended up leaving SRI to lead this company was, we developed under that DARPA program some more lightweight actuators, electric muscles that we were integrating into clothing.
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According to this research, the hydraulic system of the Pacific bluefin tuna integrates its skeletal muscles, fin bones, and vessels—the biological equivalent of a mechanical hydraulic system's pumps, vessels, and actuators—to expand and retract the fish's fins.
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With the vibrotactile (vibrating) actuators on the palm side of the fingers, the partner wearing the "Feel" glove can move his or her hand to different parts of their body, adjusting the pressure to fit their needs and desires.
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The arm, described in a study published today in Science Robotics, is made of seven plastic actuators that look like rectangular boxes stacked up on top of each other and stretching up to 27.5 inches (70 centimeters) in length.
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The vibration motors and actuators are used throughout the system in a fun, playful way — you'll feel cute little bumps when swiping away notifications or adjusting camera settings that enhance your connection to what's going on behind the pixels.
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Powered by a 64-bit quad-core CPU and a rechargeable battery good for about two hours of playtime, the new Aibo is brought to life with custom-designed compact actuators that allow the robot to move along 22 different axes.
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Sony's Koov kit has been kicking around Japan for a while now, and should be pretty familiar to anyone who's spent time with Lego's educational initiatives — it's a set of blocks, sensors, motors and actuators that pair with a mobile app.
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And her creators and support team have clearly humanized her, going so far as assigning her a gender based on a pair of large actuators that cause her chest plate to jut out on either side of the NASA logo.
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Underneath the bench is an array of haptic actuators that correspond to the movements of the virtual character, giving the real person sitting on the bench the sense that a physical being with weight and impact is sharing the bench with them.
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But make no mistake, Orion's arms and legs weren't built purely for transportation: The spacecraft is loaded with actuators (thrusters) that allow the capsule to orient and navigate deep space, dock to additional elements such as a habitat, and safely reenter Earth's atmosphere.
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Earlier creations like Italian researcher Ceclia Laschi's swimming octobot relied on stiff actuators, control systems, and power packs to move around — which limits the robots squishability, an attribute scientists are actively striving for in robots that could interact with (and run into) people.
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In order to create such a well-rendered structure on this scale, the Femto-ST Institute team had to integrate several different technologies—lab-on-fiber systems, optical sensing techniques, robot actuators—into one device, which the researchers call the μROBOTEX platform.
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SMAC claims to be taking advantage of its wide technical edge over old tech competitors such as pneumatic or electric ball screw and moving magnet actuators, and has carved out an expanding number of applications to overcome known problems in a variety of industries.
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Called Bentley Dynamic Ride, it uses a 48-volt system to adjust electronic actuators front and rear and keep the car from leaning too much in corners, while still offering the ability to set the ride to a comfortable setting with the air suspension.
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To win U.S. approval for the $23 billion deal, UTC agreed to sell two Rockwell Collins' businesses - one that sells systems that de-ice planes and another that sells trimmable horizontal stabilizer actuators that help aircraft maintain altitude, the Justice Department said on Monday.
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His team, which focuses on engineering the next generation of wearable and haptic devices, is exploring the endless possibilities if wearables could intentionally share parts of our body for input and output, allowing computers to be more directly interwoven in our bodily senses and actuators.
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Combining these actuators with other advancements in edible electronics — batteries that can safely pass through a digestive tract, or chips and cameras that are already on the market that can be ingested — could one day make for a fully edible robot, the researchers from EPFL told Recode.
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Digital technologies interfaced with the physical world give policy makers new tools to shape outcomes in response to on-the-ground conditions — think digital signs or physical actuators like movable barriers or lighting that can be pre-programmed and change in response to events in the environment.
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The Sprites, which weigh about four grams each and cost only $25 to make, have basic sensors like magnetometers and gyroscopes, but Manchester hopes to upgrade them with actuators for mobility, as well as more advanced sensors like chemical detectors that would allow them to explore alien environments.
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Using a combination of mechanical actuators, sensors, and even surface electromyography pads that can detect the electrical signals the brain is sending to the wearer's neck muscles, the robotic brace can restore about 70 percent of an ALS patient's autonomous movements and range of motion in their head.
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"The research findings represent an important stepping stone towards providing the Solider an autonomous freeform fabrication platform – next-generation 3D printer, which can print functional materials and devices – to generate soft actuators and potentially tetherless soft robots on demand, on the fly and at the point of need," Habtour adds.
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In these environments using high bandwidth virtual compliance, made possible by low impedance actuators, will allow the robot's legs to actively conform to the terrain producing a more efficient and swift mode of locomotion as compared to a statically stable crawling gait which requires accurate terrain mapping and explicit foot step planning.
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The little robot features touch sensors, expressive eyes with a built-in camera and live-streaming capabilities, the ability to communicate via onboard speakers, microphones and gestural motion actuators, obstacle avoidance smarts and wheels that can handle room crossing from one room into another, as well as multiple types of floors and carpets.
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Michael Tracy, a Michigan-based auto manufacturing consultant, said Google sees the potential of several different revenue streams from its self-driving technology, including licensing its mapping database and vehicle control software, as well as an integrated package of software, sensors and actuators that would form the backbone of a self-driving vehicle.
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ClearMotion, a company that's building an alternative chassis for vehicle makers that replaces traditional physical shock absorbers with digital, software-driven adaptive actuators, has readied $100 million in a Series C round, led by a group of clients advised by J.P. Morgan's asset management wing and with participation from NEA, Qualcomm Ventures and more.
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Photo: Robins Air Force BaseUsing actuators, sensors, a robotic arm, and even its own power system, the robot can operate a plane's yoke (essentially used for steering the craft) push on the rudder and brake pedals, make throttle adjustments, and flip switches on the dashboard as needed to make proper and legal flights following the same FAA guidelines that human pilots have to abide by while in the air.
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