actuation
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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