actuation

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The key detail in the weapon debris was the tail actuation system, which controls the fins that guide the GBU-39 to a target, according to Trevor Ball, a former U.S.

From New York Times • May 29, 2024

Together with collaborators at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Dartmouth College, they recreated the material computationally in order to get another view of how the clamping affects the actuation under applied electric voltage.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2024

“This team has brought chemically powered actuation to impressive length scales for robotics while also demonstrating impressive capabilities for insect-scale machines,” says Ryan Truby, a materials scientist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

From Scientific American • Sep. 18, 2023

The actuation unit was previously owned by Rockwell Collins, a company sold to United Technologies in 2018.

From Reuters • Jun. 14, 2023

Suggests the electrical actuation of tuning-forks and the electrical transmission of their tones.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery by Iles, George