Cycloidal drives are fascinating pieces of hardware, and we’ve seen them showing up in part due to their suitability for 3D printing. The open source robot arm makers [Haddington Dynamics] are among ...

With the popularity of robot dogs, many people have gotten on the bandwagon and tried building DIY versions. Most of them end up attaching a gearbox to an off-the-shelf brushless motor and call it a ...

UK researchers have developed a new CT scanning method that produces the same image quality while also reducing radiation dose, according to a study published in Physical Review Applied. The technique ...

Trinity Industries Inc.'s subsidiary Halter Marine has been busy, delivering the Garth Foss—the second of two 155-foot (47.3-m), 8,000- hp enhanced tractor tugs equipped with cycloidal propulsion ...

Cycloidal propulsion systems represent an innovative class of marine and aerospace thrusters that employ a series of continuously rotating blades to generate thrust in multiple directions. This design ...

Researchers simultaneously substituted calcium at the bismuth site and ruthenium or iridium at the iron site to suppress the cycloidal spin structure, enabling room-temperature weak ferromagnetism and ...

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In 1816, having been named Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy Academy, Sylvanus Thayer went to France, to study the methods of instruction at the École Polytechnique, and purchase books and ...