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actuation

[ak-choo-ey-shuhn] / ˌæk tʃuˈeɪ ʃən /




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Physical AI agents are built on three key blocks: perception, cognition and actuation, the analysts note.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

The key detail in the weapon debris was the tail actuation system, which controls the fins that guide the GBU-39 to a target, according to Trevor Ball, a former U.S.

From New York Times May 29, 2024

"But what's really interesting here, is that we can reprogram that behavior, so that the cilia can be repurposed to have a completely different actuation."

From Science Daily Apr. 24, 2024

“This team has brought chemically powered actuation to impressive length scales for robotics while also demonstrating impressive capabilities for insect-scale machines,” says Ryan Truby, a materials scientist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

From Scientific American Sep. 18, 2023

As a babe is without malice negatively, so you must be positively and by actuation, that is, full of love and meekness; as the babe is unresisting, so must you be docile, and so on.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson




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