(NewsNation) — Bryan Vladek Hasel should be celebrating his 27th birthday with his loving family in Florida on Saturday, but instead, his seven siblings and father are marking another year without him ...

Actuators are the input and output devices that connect electronic, hydraulic or pneumatic control systems to their environment. They convert external forces or conditions, such as temperature, into a ...

Abstract: This article presents a novel variable stiffness actuator (VSA) capable of wide-range stiffness regulation and has a compact structure. A cam-circular beam mechanism is proposed in the ...

Abstract: This article proposes a lightweight variable stiffness actuator (LVSA) driven by a novel mechanism with four sliders on a shared crank (FS2C). The FS2C mechanism allows the LVSA to ...