Simple control tasks can be candidates for pneumatic, electropneumatic, and hybrid pneumatic controls. Purely pneumatic controls must be used in certain cases, as in the explosive environment found in ...

Bob is a service technician who is well trained and nationally certified. However, he sometimes suffers from the same confusion that all technicians occasionally do - the facts that he gathers may or ...

Festo introduces the HPPH two-finger pneumatic parallel gripper, a compact, lightweight design that integrates control, ...

As with nearly any actuation technology in industrial automation applications, there is no shortage of opinions around the use of electric or pneumatic motion control. These predilections tend to get ...

Pneumatic actuation harnesses compressed air to generate mechanical force and motion with inherent compliance, high power density and rapid response. Traditional pneumatic cylinders remain ubiquitous ...

Directional-control valves are vital in any pneumatic circuit, directing or blocking airflow to control the speed or sequence of operations. One method of classifying directional-control valves is by ...

A research team develops 3D-printed pneumatic logic modules that control the movements of soft robots using only air pressure. These modules enable logical switching of the air flow and can thus ...

In the future, soft robots will be able to perform tasks that cannot be done by conventional robots. These soft robots could be used in terrain that is difficult to access and in environments where ...