How to Use servo in a Sentence

servo

noun
Definition of servonext
  • The brakes are the same electro-servo system used in the NSX but with slightly less aggressive tuning.
    — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The second five words in the list — milliamp, neodymium, degauss, aileron, servo — are much more commonly known by men.
    — Kara Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2022
  • Howe holds the long string of cables attaching it to an Arduino unit, which controls the servos that bend and straighten each body segment.
    — Matthew Francis, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2018
  • All the gears are indirect, with the famous—and flawless—Porsche servo-ring synchromesh.
    — Car and Driver, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Critically, all of the functional parts of the robotic hand, apart from the servos and the pressure sensors, were produced in a single printing job.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023
  • His approach cost his helicopter the servos, and upon his landing more NVA fire took out the main rotor blades and transmission.
    — Barry Barnett, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2024
  • The device features rigid bones modeled on MRI scans of human hands and elastic tendons that can be connected to servos to curl the fingers in toward the palm.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023
  • This information is transmitted to a system of fans and servo motors that controls how much of each of each scent to release.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2016
  • Step 6: To limit the noise the arms make during movement, the servos were custom-made using worm-gear motors and Hall-effect position sensors.
    — Dan Dubno, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2017
  • While quadcopters steer by changing the speed of the four rotors, tricopters need variable-pitch propellers, controlled by a small servo motor.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
  • So much depends upon a red puzzle cube, pinned by servo motors, inside Mitsubishi.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 6 June 2024
  • As such, the rider gets a lovely, mechanical feel at the handlebar, not one fettled by outside servo motors.
    — Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 6 May 2022
  • With some cameras and servos, plus a nifty interface that looks a lot like a small version of a 1980s arcade game, your gunner can operate his weapon while safely tucked inside the vehicle.
    — David Axe, WIRED, 12 Aug. 2009
  • That’s an astonishing 17 percent improvement in the servo’s efficiency, which means more cars coming off the line faster.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2018
  • That includes a brushless motor, two servo motors, a battery, a gear unit, and a number of circuit boards for radio, control, and localization.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2020
  • The two-wheeled device is an engineering marvel, of course, full of sensors and servos, including camera systems to see its path and gyroscopes to keep it upright.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The nozzle moves on tracks or gantries (some have two axes, some more), assisted sometimes by actuators, servo motors, rack-and-pinion structures, or slide guides.
    — WIRED, 28 Aug. 2022
  • This new head, combined with new servo tech that precisely controls the flow of tape through the system, allows for a positional accuracy of under 7nm.
    — Sebastian Anthony, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Dauntingly, the vehicle does without ABS, a brake servo or any electronic driver aids.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2022
  • One big upgrade is that the control system now uses data from the on-board inertial measurement unit, or IMU, a Microstrain device running at 1 kilohertz, the same frequency of the servo controllers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2023
  • While this is just a prototype, the half-edible drone does actually fly, achieving speeds of about 10 meters per second with the addition of a motor, some servos to actuate the tail surfaces for control, and a small battery.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The car was outfitted with a suite of servos to control throttle, brake, steering, and shifting, while Mardenborough’s control interface was a bone-stock Sony DualShock 4 controller.
    — Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Each of its motion points is connected to a flexible cable that runs out from its lower torso, which is then attached to a proportional servo motor located just 60 feet away from the figure’s body.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2022
  • In addition, the Flipper can help debug hardware by generating various test signals, including PWM, which can be used to test a servo, for example.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2023
  • For example, servo — an engineering term describing something that regulates a mechanism — is known by more than 60 percent of men but by less than 30 percent of women.
    — Kara Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2022
  • The remote control airplane features a 1,400Kv brushless motor and servo, plus comes with decals, but the radio transmitter, receiver, and charger are sold separately.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Well after Horch the man departed, the automaker was cranking out dual-overhead-cam straight-eights, servo-actuated brakes, four-wheel independent suspension, transverse leaf springs, and five-speed gearboxes.
    — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 25 May 2019
  • Alcohol reservoir, servo actuator, and nozzle not (yet) included.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Importantly, the car retains its original engine, carburetor, ignition, radiator and shroud, oil cooler and remote filter, brake servo, alternator, four-speed manual transmission and differential and even toolkit.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2022

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