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actuation

[ak-choo-ey-shuhn] / ˌæk tʃuˈeɪ ʃən /




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Physical AI agents are built on three key blocks: perception, cognition and actuation, the analysts note.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

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

As a babe is without malice negatively, so you must be positively and by actuation, that is, full of love and meekness; as the babe is unresisting, so must you be docile, and so on.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge




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