Last fall, I grabbed a robot arm from Robot Geeks when they were on sale at Thanksgiving. The arm uses servos to rotate the base and move the joints and gripper. These work well enough but I found one ...

Also known as inertial sensors, accelerometers are critical elements in key applications such as automotive air-bag deployment, smartphone motion tracking, and industrial predictive maintenance. These ...

The company claims an offset error over life and temperature of ±4mg for x and y axes, and ±6mg for z, for the unit, dubbed SCA3400-D01. (‘g’ in this article is ...

Kionix’s low-noise KXR94 and KXD94 accelerometers feature high data-sampling rates, and internal low-pass filter, and multiplexed output for consumer- and automotive-grade applications. The tri-axis ...

In a conference room at Analog Devices (ADI), Howard Wisniowski holds a demo board a little bigger than a commemorative stamp about a meter above the table top. An ADI motion sensor and associated ...

Sherborne Sensors, a world leading company in the design and manufacture of superior precision accelerometers, inclinometers and force transducers, today launched its A545 range of highly accurate and ...

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TOKYO: 6981) (ISIN: JP3914400001) has introduced a 3-axis accelerometer for the industrial market that combines high offset stability over temperature and time, good ...

Three-axis silicon-based accelerometers have been gaining momentum for the past 18 months, as equipment manufacturers have begun employing them on applications ranging from washing machines to cell ...

Intended to address applications such as gaming control or other user motion-detection, the MMA62xxQ MEMS-based twin-axis accelerometer measures small forces resulting from tilt, motion, positioning, ...