and he’s messing around with Series Elastic Actuators right now. In an earlier part of the project, he built a small robotic arm to demonstrate the motion capture suit he’s going to use to ...

you get a responsive robotic actuator with a hefty holding torque of over 16 Nm, which [Aaed] demonstrates by having the actuator shake around some dumbells on a long lever arm. Walking robots ...

At MD&M West 2025, Henry Kim, a regional sales engineer at Harmonic Drive, demonstrated advancements in actuator design.

the robot operated at a depth of 10,600 meters in the Mariana Trench. Using the same actuator technology, a soft gripper mounted on a submersible’s rigid arm successfully retrieved sea urchins ...

In situations of harsh impacts, damping injection directly on the link of an articulated soft robot is challenging and usually requires high actuator torques at the moment of impact. In this work, we ...

A team of robotics researchers at the University of Edinburgh have designed a robot arm powered by AI that can serve people coffee and carry out other tasks. The researchers put Kinova to the test ...