Part 1 in a series of articles on motor control design starts with an introduction to motors and controllers. Electric motors consume almost half of the electricity produced worldwide. They, in fact, ...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a next-generation wearable device that enables people to ...

Accurate, repeatable positioning is crucial to a host of medical devices — everything from CAT scanners to blood-testing equipment to milling machines for lenses. And motion must often be in more than ...

Improvement in the design of medical equipment for better-streamlined functionality and performance is influenced by a number of critical factors. The research, design, modeling, testing, prototyping, ...

JOBY recently announced a new line of content creator microphones, and they’re not done yet. The Spin and Swing are two new motion control devices for mobile content creators. The Spin is a Bluetooth ...

A line of computer-controlled linear actuators, linear slides, rotary stages, mirror mounts, and other motion control devices offer flexibility in automating submicron positioning applications.

Come on baby, let’s do the locomotion. We have an interesting follow up on a newly discovered Nintendo patent. This refers to a patent for what appears to be a peripheral meant for the Switch 2.

Very early motion control systems used mechanical gearboxes and levers to select speeds and drive power, but these systems were quickly replaced by analog electronic controllers that provided much ...

Aerotech’s Sensor Fusion is a 3U data acquisition device integrated with the Automation 3200 (A3200) motion controller that provides precise time alignment of motion and data acquisition functions, ...

Dear readers, I have seen the future of gaming! Here, see for yourselves. Check out the preview for the upcoming sci-fi flick “Gamer,” and you’ll see a future in which video game enthusiasts use their ...

In theory, a distributed architecture simplifies equipment design by putting right-sized automation as close as possible to the driven machine elements. The SIMODRIVE POSMO series of distributed ...