[Tristan Shone], aka Author & Punisher, found a way to make industrial music even heavier. This former mechanical engineer from Boston crafted his one-man band in the university fab labs of Southern ...

We’ve seen plenty of motor projects, but [Jeremy]’s DIY Tubular Linear Motor is a really neat variety of stepper motor in a format we certainly don’t see every day. It started as a design experiment ...

Abstract: Hybrid linear actuators (HLAs) are versatile devices capable of high ratio extensions. Although HLAs have been utilized in some industries, civilian applications are still limited. In this ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the trajectory tracking problem of a micro linear piezoelectric actuator (LPA) based on a Variable Forgetting Factor Iterative Learning Control (FFILC). Compared to ...

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 ...

Metal Frameworks and Structural Elements in Robotics Every robot you’ve ever seen, whether it’s one zipping around ...