BALTIMORE — Engineers at Johns Hopkins University have implemented a spherical motor that can roll in any direction, rather than rotate on a single axis as conventional motors do. Spherical motors ...

Engineers at Johns Hopkins have invented a globe-shaped motor that is capable of rotating in any direction. The device, which uses electromagnets controlled by a computer, could give robotic arms ...

TAIPEI, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Tensor Tech developed groundbreaking spherical motor technology that will help more commercial players enter the space industry. Based in Taiwan, Tensor Tech ...

Professor Ralph Hollis invented a robot with a special motor that has a very simple drive system about a decade ago called the ballbot. Fast-forward ten years and Hollis' invention called the ...

Imagine a computer mouse that can push back against a user's fingers to simulate braille dots. Or a robotic arm for fine-tuning circuit boards on orbiting satellites with greater accuracy than any ...

Johns Hopkins University in the US is developing a spherical stepper motor. Its stator is bowl-shaped with 16 electromagnets which interact with around 80permanent magnets in the 30cm spherical rotor.