[Navin Khambhala] chose instead to do it more like the real excavators, with hydraulics using syringes ... bolts on them move nuts attached to the syringe pistons to push and pull the pistons.

Hydraulic hydrogel actuators were actuated by pressurized water supplied from multiple programmable high-throughput syringe pumps (New Era Pump Systems, Inc.). Pressurized water from the syringe ...

The fluid is pumped through the circuit by a custom-built syringe pump driven by a linear actuator, and when the chamber is filled the reaction can begin. In this case, if the fluid contains ...

Used in laboratories to administer small amounts of liquid for drug delivery or chemistry research, syringe pumps can cost research labs hundreds or even thousands of dollars. But researchers from ...