Many of the projects we serve up on Hackaday are freshly minted, hot off the press endeavors. But sometimes, just sometimes, we stumble across ideas from the past that are simply too neat to be passed ...

Researchers have taken inspiration from origami to create inflatable structures that can bend, twist and move in complex, distinct ways from a single source of pressure. Inflatable soft actuators that ...

Manufactured using shape memory alloys (SMA), a class of materials developed about 50 years ago by Raychem, NanoMuscle Actuators are designed to replace traditional small motors and solenoids in ...

SMAC’s new LPL80 line of electric linear moving coil actuators were designed for filling machines and come in the standard 80mm size. The actuators use a dc linear servo... The LPL 30 actuators from ...