If you are in the market for a small yet powerful portable pump capable of offering three devices in one, you may be interested in the GIGA. Designed to be in an air pump, vacuum pump and lantern the ...

An inflatable-heat-shield prototype designed to protect spacecraft on other worlds has passed its first key step: making sure it fits into a rocket. In a recent test, the 9-foot-diameter (3 meters) ...

In principle, industrial vacuum pumps are merely compressors run with the inlet attached to the vacuum system and the outlet open to exhaust. In smaller sizes, compressors and vacuum pumps are often ...

I'm just wondering why you can't throw a garbage bag into a standard shop vac... and to answer one of your questions, my shop vac has a filter which keeps stuff from getting sucked into the vacuum ...

Automated picking and sorting of mixed packaging is challenging for intralogistics applications. Knowledge of the fundamentals of vacuum gripping can help overcome those challenges, improve throughput ...