automation: Media

Videos

See how mechatronics help engineers create high-tech products such as industrial robots
Learn how the discipline of mechatronics combines knowledge and skills from mechanical,...
Video: © The University of Newcastle, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment with thanks to Jeremy Ley and Nick Parker from Light Creative (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

Images

Jacquard loom
Jacquard loom, engraving, 1874. At the top of the machine is a stack of punched cards...
The Bettmann Archive
feedback control system
Figure 1: The components of a feedback control system and their relationships.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
program control and feedback control
Figure 2: Relationship of program control and feedback control in an automated system.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
types of mechanical joints used in robot manipulators
Figure 3: Collinear and orthogonal are translational joints; rotational, twisting,...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
computer numerical control
Rows of computer numerical control (CNC) milling machines at the Taylor Guitars factory...
© Marcin Wichary (CC BY 2.0)