Apollo astronauts discovered an unexpected enemy on the Moon. Fine dust, kicked up by their movements and attracted by static ...

PPG introduced electrostatic coating application to the shipping industry just over a year ago, and the technique is designed to provide an increased transfer efficiency compared to airless spraying, ...

Researchers are developing a real-life tractor beam, with the goal of pulling defunct satellites out of geostationary orbit ...

A cheap robotic hand developed by a company called Grabit offers something most of the other mechanical limbs we've seen before don't: the ability to pick up objects using electrostatic attraction.

Spiders may trap unsuspecting prey by sucking them in using electrostatic attraction, new research suggests. The new study, published today (July 4) in the journal Scientific Reports, found that the ...

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One of the projects at the recent Hacker Hotel hacker camp in the Netherlands appeared to have achieved the impossible. A vertical PCB surface was holding pieces of paper as though they were pinned to ...

The sticky effect seen when you rub a balloon on your hair could be used to help robots pick things up, greatly expanding what machines can do in factories. Grabit’s gripper has flexible electrostatic ...

ON May 26 Messrs. A. Johnsen and K. Rahbek, two Danish engineers, gave a most interesting demonstration to the Institution of Electrical En gineers of new electrostatic microphones, telegraphic relays ...