News tagged with actuation
Robot snake 'Uncle Sam' now climbs trees (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Uncle Sam, Carnegie Mellon's latest robotic snake, has been taught to climb trees. The snake is the newest version of "modsnake" created by the Biorobotics Laboratory at the Carnegie Mellon ...
Sep 07, 2010 |
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NIST's new scanning probe microscope is supercool
The discoveries of superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect and the fractional quantum Hall effect were all the result of measurements made at increasingly lower temperatures. Now, pushing the regime of ...
Dec 12, 2010 |
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'Flying carpet': Princeton team's plastic sheet can hover above ground (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A thin sheet of plastic has been making headlines at Princeton as a magical flying carpet, after the publication of a paper describing experiments by the team with their prototype sheet of ...
Oct 01, 2011 |
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New Smart Material Bends Under Internal Heat Source
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have developed a new smart material that can bend under the influence of an internal heat source. The material could be used as an aerodynamic flap in cars, in order to stabilize ...
Feb 06, 2009 |
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Jellyfish Robot Swims Like its Biological Counterpart
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Jellyfish are one of the most awesome marine animals, doing a spectacular and psychedelic dance in water," explain engineers Sung-Weon Yeom and Il-Kwon Oh from Chonnam National University ...
Jun 26, 2009 |
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A new paper made of graphene and protein fibrils
(Phys.org) -- Researchers led by Raffaele Mezzenga, a professor in Food and Soft Materials Science, have created a new nanocomposite made of graphene and protein fibrils: a special paper, which combines the ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 07, 2012 |
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Whether grasping Easter eggs or glass bottles -- this robotic hand uses tact
Researchers at Saarland University together with associates in Bologna and Naples have developed a robotic hand that can accomplish both tasks with ease and yet including the actuators is scarcely larger than ...
Mar 30, 2012 |
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Do it yourself guy builds train detector to automatically shut bedroom window
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a nice display of can-do thinking leading to positive action, a guy by the name of Ed Rogers has devised a device that automatically shuts the window in his bedroom whenever a train passes ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 16, 2011 |
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Smart memory foam made smarter
Researchers from Northwestern University and Boise State University have figured out how to produce a less expensive shape-shifting "memory" foam, which could lead to more widespread applications of the material, such as ...
Sep 24, 2009 |
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New Study Helps Explain the Surprising Behavior of Tiny 'Artificial Muscles' (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using neutron beams and atomic-force microscopes, a team of university researchers working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology may have resolved a 10-year-old question ...
Apr 27, 2010 |
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Heated AFM tip allows direct fabrication of ferroelectric nanostructures on plastic
Using a technique known as thermochemical nanolithography (TCNL), researchers have developed a new way to fabricate nanometer-scale ferroelectric structures directly on flexible plastic substrates that would ...
Jul 18, 2011 |
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Microfabrication breakthrough could set piezoelectric material applications in motion
(PhysOrg.com) -- Integrating a complex, single-crystal material with "giant" piezoelectric properties onto silicon, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists can fabricate low-voltage, near-nanoscale ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 17, 2011 |
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New magnetic-field-sensitive alloy could find use in novel micromechanical devices
(PhysOrg.com) -- Led by a group at the University of Maryland (UMd), a multi-institution team of researchers has combined modern materials research and an age-old metallurgy technique to produce an alloy that ...
Nov 23, 2011 |
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New 'nanobead' approach could revolutionize sensor technology
Researchers at Oregon State University have found a way to use magnetic "nanobeads" to help detect chemical and biological agents, with possible applications in everything from bioterrorism to medical diagnostics, ...
Apr 26, 2011 |
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Vest to prevent balance disorder patients falling
(PhysOrg.com) -- A vest being developed by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) could help people with balance disorders to regain their balance. This could cut short the rehabilitation ...
Apr 06, 2010 |
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