Switches, breakers and controls cover a wall in the industrial maintenance lab that Tony Sandutch oversees at the Penn State Hazleton campus. Students work with that equipment through a nine-month ...

Like a conductor leading an orchestra, mechatronics experts combine many disciplines into one. Mechatronics, a blend of computing and engineering, is essential to automation and manufacturing. If you ...

Four of the college’s eight Sun Corp. automation trainers used in its MECH-54 course. As manufacturing operations increased in the U.S. for the first time in years, a significant part of the ...

I will be publishing a series of tutorials regarding Analog Mechatronics on Planet Analog over the next few months. Originally, Ko Kikuchi, President of Yasakawa Electric Company, coined the term.

The idea of building a machine from isolated parts, each with its own setup and software, no longer fits how modern automation works.

Robotics vs Mechatronics: The divide between robotics and mechatronics has become more nuanced and important in 2026 because to the convergence of sophisticated materials, high-speed connection, and ...

Mechatronics, a high-end technology incorporating electronics, machine learning and mechanical engineering, has been in vogue, of late. With growing prominence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ...