Any robot that moves needs actuators—motors that move parts of the robot around. While robot actuators have been around since the dawn of machines, they have some issues. For one, it is very difficult ...

This time he’s made himself a Nitinol wire inchworm, which actually moves across the table when you apply a switching electrical current to it! Nitinol is a shape memory alloy which has a cool ...

If you’re wondering why they’re so expensive, some napkin calculations of the nitinol coil have somewhere between 100 ft – 200 ft of wire per wheel, and at $1-2/ft, the raw materials alone ...

Fort Wayne Metals-melted Nitinol is available in custom-shaped wire, bar, and shape-set assemblies ... complex medical devices, and cutting-edge medical technologies. With these latest ...

Description: A heat engine consisting of a loop of Nitinol wire running on two pulleys. When the smaller pulley is dipped into a cup of hot water the loop of wire rotates. We have a model of a loop ...

Memry Inc.'s Bethel facility is wired for production. The producer of super-elastic Nitinol wire and tubing recently opened a 20,000-square-foot wire-drawing plant to make thin-gauge strands out ...

The difference between the loaded wire and the released wire can be as much as 20° C (36° F). The cooling device is thus quite simple in concept. It uses a rotating cylinder covered in nitinol ...