End-of-arm tooling that combines vacuum and mechanical gripping comes as close as possible to the one tool that does it all and reduces the number of tool changeovers to a few or zero. The optimum ...

A knit solution Okamura and her colleagues designed a battery-powered pneumatic ... Lab to manufacture the Haptiknit sleeve prototype on a knitting machine, with space for eight actuators arranged ...

Weiland Professor, Stanford University Okamura and her team designed a battery-powered pneumatic ... Lab to produce the Haptiknit prototype using a knitting machine, featuring space for eight ...

Image Credit: Susan Williams, MIT Self-Assembly Lab Wearable haptic devices ... Okamura and her team designed a battery-powered pneumatic system using pressure actuators, which are small inflatable ...

Okamura and her colleagues designed a battery-powered pneumatic system with pressure actuators that were essentially small ... They worked with a team at MIT's Soft Assembly Lab to manufacture the ...

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California 91109, United States ...

Published in Science Robotics, the design generates realistic sensations, outperforming vibrational systems in user tests ...

Automation and mechanical motion systems have become integral to industries ranging from manufacturing to healthcare.

These pneumatic actuators simulate touch by selectively inflating and expanding, pressing down against the skin as they do so. In order to press downwards sufficiently, the actuators have to be ...

Congratulations team and thanks to all the customers that have flown with us in 2024." Rocket Lab launched a private Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit today (Dec. 21) on the company's final ...

For fluid-compressed equipment, this means air and pneumatic actuators compress more, so attributes like load displacement ...