With fully interactive products now the norm, mechanical-control circuitry has emerged as an integral part of embedded-system design. Although designers have since the early days of electronics used ...

Mechatronics date all the way back to 1969, when the Japanese firm Yaskawa coined this term blending the words "mechanical" and "electronics." Steady advancements in technology -- especially 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.

Some observers claim there's "nothing new" about mechatronics. "It's just another name for electromechanical technology," they say. Those who really know design, however, realize mechatronics is much ...