It contained details on refined plasma actuator technology, which uses ionized gas to improve aircraft control.
Since each vibrating actuator is independently controlled, the pad can deliver a myriad of rich sensations simultaneously.
More efficient actuator technologies would benefit, not only robotics systems, but all actuated systems, such as prosthetic limbs.
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They turned an electroactive polymer into an actuator so that the material could change to exert force with an electrical signal, basically creating an exomuscle.
If you tend to type between the O and P, the keyboard will learn this and shift the touch actuator to lie between the two keys.
The entire camera assembly includes everything you see below, which includes the clear optics (lenses), actuator (second black module from the left), sensor, and the black piece-parts that hold everything together.
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It turned out that the linear actuator had uses in a variety of industries and today his invention is found in industrial and farming equipment, ergonomic office furniture, and healthcare equipment.
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This technology replaces the phone's speaker with a ceramic actuator, which turns sounds into vibrations that travel through the body directly to the eardrum, making the phone audible even in loud environments.
Three years later, he introduced the linear actuator.
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Two: In the course of designing Stompy, the Project Hexapod crew developed a position-controlled hydraulic actuator capable of generating 18, 000 pounds of force with a two-foot stroke that's two orders of magnitude cheaper that comparable hardware.
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Its second-generation Ankle Mimicking Prosthetic Foot (AMP-Foot 2.0) uses a pair of force sensors to determine the leg's relative position and let an actuator build energy when the foot bends, locking the power away to use only when the owner pushes off.
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The AL13SE is the first 10, 000 RPM class model enterprise drive from Toshiba to achieve 900GB capacity and is also the first of Toshiba's 10, 000 RPM drives to employ a dual-stage head positioning actuator that provides additional performance gains, including a 32% increase in sustained transfer rate.
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