In robotics, movements must be precise and well-controlled. As robots are asked to do more as industry becomes more familiar with the technology, there will be an increasing need for high accuracy ...

[Pete] needed a rotary encoder for one of his project so he set out to build his own. As the name implies, a rotary encoder measures rotation by encoding “steps” into electrical signals which can be ...

HEIDENHAIN’s RENCO brand of encoders are well suited and available for use within a variety of mobile robot applications. Specifically, the modular RENCO R35i and RCML15 rotary encoders have proven ...

Encoders are critical to the production of advanced electronics, one of the fastest growing and advancing industries in the world. Rotary, angle and linear encoders are all used in one form or another ...

FLUX GmbH (FLUX), a high-precision encoder company, has announced the publication of a new whitepaper that examines the benefits of FLUX inductive technology in enabling next-generation performance ...

Quantum Devices, a United States based encoder manufacturer, designs and manufactures high quality, high performance incremental optical rotary encoders for a range of industries and applications. As ...

Electromate has added the Netzer Precision VLP-13 to its catalog, a miniature, absolute rotary encoder engineered for ...

From robotics and medical devices to green energy and automation, RLS magnetic encoders deliver precise motion control across countless industries. Our rotary encoders achieve accuracies down to ±44 ...

A prototype of the plywood kit. Note the rotary encoder is cardboard. [Credit: Dustin and David Andrews] Do you ever dream of building a robot army to take over the world, but you don’t quite have the ...

Book in collaboration with onsemi, exploring the transformative impact of robotics in scale, capability, context and more. What began as fixed industrial machines programmed for repetitive tasks are ...

[Erich] is the middle of building a new competition sumo bot for 2018. He’s trying to make this one as open and low-cost as humanly possible. So far it’s going pretty well, and the quest to make DIY ...