Today's virtual reality games and content can be pretty immersive, but they largely miss the mark when it comes to haptic ...

This simple STM setup utilises a piezoelectric actuator constructed by deliberately cutting a piezo speaker into four quadrants. With individual drive wires attached to the four quadrants.

Scientists have developed a small-scale actuator tech that can impart omnidirectional, superimposable, dynamic forces to the ...

Clothes that can mimic the feeling of being touched, touch displays that provide haptic feedback to users, or even ultralight loudspeakers. These are just some of the devices made possible using thin ...

Researchers have created a tiny, shape-shifting robot that swims, crawls, and glides freely in the deep sea. Developed by a ...

Thus, he set out to build a better actuator to support his goals of building a high-performance walking bot in future. [Aaed] decided to try and build a quasi-direct drive actuator, similar to ...

So, you went and bought a mechanical dropper seatpost for your mountain bike, only to discover that smoother-moving, ...

A team of MIT researchers recently created the first synthetic muscle actuator that can flex in multiple directions. This ...

The need to validate new technologies and increasingly study more complex structural engineering designs demands new ...

Researchers at Empa are developing artificial muscles that could one day move like real ones. Using advanced 3D printing, they have created soft and elastic structures that contract and relax with ...

The F-16 Fighting Falcon's actuator nozzle produces a unique squeaking sound as it adjusts for thrust vectoring and engine performance. This distinctive noise, caused by the movement of the nozzle ...