University of California San Diego and French lab CEA-Leti have got together to create a novel high-voltage drive for electrostatic and piezoelectric actuators in mini-drones, describing the technique ...

Why and how the flexible actuators were fabricated. How they were used in an aerial micro-robot. The performance obtained with these actuators. While the electronics for drones and aerial robots of ...

One hard disk recently failed in the EEVBlog laboratory’s NAS. Keeping true to his catch phrase, [Dave “Tear it Apart” Jones] opened it up and gave us an inside tour of a modern hard disk drive. There ...

Researchers have developed improved forms of tiny magnetic actuators thanks to new materials and a microscopic 3-D printing technology. Researchers have developed improved forms of tiny magnetic ...

Most robots use electric actuators, but this little fella packs a lot more punch. Researchers have created a new type of minuscule combustion engine that gives this tiny frog robot explosive leaping ...

The DH0485A electrostatic actuator high-voltage IC, integrating a dc-dc boost converter and 16-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with SPI interface in a 6- by 6-mm QFN 33L package, suits portable ...