Transporting miniaturized components with speed and precision remains a persistent challenge for industries operating at microscopic scales. Friction from conveyor belts, rollers, and other mechanical ...

The idea has been floated previously to use sound waves to make objects levitate. Research confirmed it, but as you may expect, this requires a direct path of waves to the object – interrupt them by ...

What does the future of construction look like? Autonomous machines buzzing around a building site? Giant 3D printers extruding walls and floors? Looking forward even farther, researchers at the ...

For those that haven’t heard, ultrasonic levitation is a process by which two or more ultrasonic transducers are set opposite to each other and excited in such a way as to create a standing wave ...

A magnetic-levitation device can sort viruses and bacteria that naturally float in the air, making them ready for further analysis. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep ...

The average Hackaday reader is likely at least familiar with acoustic levitation — a technique by which carefully arranged ultrasonic transducers can be used to suspend an object in the air ...