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Hydraulic cylinders
Hydraulic cylinders
Hydraulic cylinders
Hydraulic cylinders
Hydraulic cylinders
Cylinders & Actuators

Hydraulic Cylinders: Comparing Custom and COTS Offerings

Off-the-shelf cylinders may be “good enough,” but custom ones often offer the best solution.
Miriam Doerr/Dreamstime
Robot playing a piano
Robot playing a piano
Robot playing a piano
Robot playing a piano
Robot playing a piano
Cylinders & Actuators

Robot Uses Pneumatic RAM to Play Piano

Researchers devise an air-powered computer memory that can control robots.
Actuator photo collage
Actuator photo collage
Actuator photo collage
Actuator photo collage
Actuator photo collage
Cylinders & Actuators

Comparing Electric and Fluid-Power Actuators

Why are electric actuators increasingly replacing hydraulic and fluid-power actuators in demanding applications?
Emerson
Photo collage
Photo collage
Photo collage
Photo collage
Photo collage
Cylinders & Actuators

Selecting Standard-Compliant Pneumatics for Railway Applications

In this article, we’ll discuss some pneumatics rail applications and their corresponding international standards.
Boy Driessen/Dreamstime
Actuators over coronavirus backdrop
Actuators over coronavirus backdrop
Actuators over coronavirus backdrop
Actuators over coronavirus backdrop
Actuators over coronavirus backdrop
Cylinders & Actuators

Post-Pandemic Future of the Pneumatic Actuator Market

The transportation, industrial automation and mining industries are slated to have a major impact on the pneumatics actuator market going forward.