An impact driver gives you extra power when driving fasteners, but that isn't always necessary. Here are some situations when you'll want to avoid it.

For more than a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how a falling cat lands on its feet with such astonishing ...

Here's how manufacturers and distribution centers can build automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) with carefully orchestrated motion control.

A leading space company turned to Electroimpact to build large composite structures for a reusable carbon fiber rocket. In this project, REDEX precision gear racks and slew ...

Researchers discover how woodpecker skull geometry keeps powerful pecks stable, allowing the birds to hammer wood thousands of times safely.

A team at Yamaguchi University in Japan has identified a mechanical property of the feline spine that helps explain how cats can rotate midair to land on their feet. Their peer-reviewed study, ...

The new Ferrari Amalfi Spider was unveiled today: a V8 2+ spider with a front-mid-mounted engine that embodies the perfect balance between contemporary sportiness and versatility within the Ferrari ...

The first M3 in 1986—the square boxy one—was loosely based on the E30 3-Series and had a four-cylinder engine. That M3 really was a homologation special, spun off a car created for racing. Back then, ...

Teaching a humanoid robot to move naturally is less a software trick than a data marathon. Behind the polished demos of ...

Silicon Sensing Systems’ inertial sensor platform underpins a newly introduced navigation instrument for north orientation from Kongsberg Discovery AS, with a live showing planned at Oceanology ...

As humanoid robots move from demonstrations to cautious pilot deployments globally, Indian automation firms face a harder version of the same question: how do you build a machine capable enough to be ...

Researchers have discovered a rotational motion that plays a critical role in the ability of breast cells to form the spherical structures in the mammary gland known as acini. This rotation, called ...