The earliest evidence of the invention of the wheel pops up around 5,500 years ago in Uruk, ancient Mesopotamia, which has to go down as the most innovative society in human history. These guys, best ...

The manipulator can rotate 360 degrees on the column and tooling axis, and 300 degrees on the intermediate axis. It can lift a maximum load of 500 kilograms. It has a maximum working radius of 4,000 ...

A rack and pinion steering system consists of a pinion (a circular gear) with a rack (a linear gear). The system works by converting a revolving motion into linear motion. Most cars, small trucks, and ...

Gilbane Building Co., headquartered in Providence, R.I., has selected Trunk Tools as its enterprise-wide construction site artificial intelligence partner, signing a seven-figure agreement to roll out ...

Shanghai Kepler Robotics Co., Ltd. announced a major update to the locomotion of its humanoid robot K2 “Bumblebee,” releasing what it describes as China’s first demonstration of a “hybrid-architecture ...

Abstract: In this article consider a class of robotic systems composed of high-elongation linear actuators connected at universal joints. We derive the differential kinematics of such robots, and show ...

Abstract: A new design of linear piezoelectric actuator using “A-shaped” structure was proposed, designed, fabricated, and tested. By fusion design of the piezoelectric transducer and the mechanical ...

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