The earliest evidence of the invention of the wheel pops up around 5,500 years ago in Uruk, ancient Mesopotamia, which has to ...

Toyota Applies for New Patent, Actuator Technology May Experience Significant Breakthrough. Recently, the National Intellectual Property Administration released a patent applicati ...

Within the air brake systems of trucks and trailers, actuators play a vital, but largely unsung, role. Brake actuators are the devices that convert the compressed air force within a truck or trailer's ...

The basics How do electric actuators contribute to productivity in today's motion-centric automation environment? John Exlar: The flexibility provided John • Exlar: The flexibility provided by ...

Harold Beck & Sons, a manufacturer of precision industrial actuation, has unveiled its latest engineering advancement: the ...

Linear actuators are a great help when you’re moving something along a single axis, but with so many options, how do you decide? [Jeremy Fielding] walks us through some of the high level tradeoffs of ...

The global actuators market is projected to reach USD 100.41 billion in 2030 from USD 71.22 billion in 2025, exhibiting a CAGR of 7.1% during the forecast period according to a new report by ...

Many of the projects we serve up on Hackaday are freshly minted, hot off the press endeavors. But sometimes, just sometimes, we stumble across ideas from the past that are simply too neat to be passed ...

In three distinct occurrences, the KC-46A Pegasus’s refueling boom has caused over $22 million of damage every bit of it traced to the same design flaw: too much stiffness in the boom’s telescoping ...

First of all, we’ve got a fancy new name. While “Robotics Roundup” was nothing if not very technically accurate, it lacked the kind of panache one ought to strive for when rounding up robotics.