pneumatic

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MMX will gather samples using two methods: a coring sampler on an extendable arm to collect specimens from deeper than two centimeters and a pneumatic sampler to kick up material from the surface.

From Scientific American

"If you look at the basic building blocks of these robots, these are pneumatic artificial muscles, which are essentially rubber with a cleverly designed fibre mesh around it," Mr Trivedi explains.

From BBC

There, things shift into hyper drive: pell-mell running, whooshing through twisty pneumatic tubes, leaping onto floating brick roads — Mario is barely given time to catch his breath.

From Seattle Times

Regulators also sought to require the use of electronically controlled pneumatic braking systems that are designed to rapidly halt trains by applying brakes across their entire span simultaneously, instead of each car individually.

From Seattle Times

That rule required electronically controlled pneumatic, or E.C.P., brakes that would simultaneously slow down an entire train rather than individual cars.

From New York Times