The manipulator can rotate 360 degrees on the column and tooling axis, and 300 degrees on the intermediate axis. It can lift a maximum load of 500 kilograms. It has a maximum working radius of 4,000 ...

Imagine triangles spinning around a shower curtain rod inside a beer keg—that is an elemental description of the screaming Wankel rotary engine. This powerplant is beloved by gearheads the world over ...

Rotary indexer’s are standard issue in most machine shops. These allow you to hold or chuck a work piece, and then a graduated handle lets you to rotate the workpiece. Useful when you want to drill or ...

We haven’t seen the last of the spinning triangles. Back in March, Martijn ten Brink, Mazda Motor Europe's vice president of sales and customer service, ignited gearheads everywhere when he told Dutch ...

Reading over the 25 -page document, Mazda describes how a rotary engine is better suited for a hybrid layout over a traditional piston-driven ICE unit. Because of its compact nature, the rotary engine ...

Mazda’s rotary engine was fast, light, and iconic. So why did Mazda finally kill it off after decades of pushing the limits?

Rotary engines are already known for their high RPM; the smaller they get, the higher they tend to rev. So what happens when the world’s smallest rotary engine gets put to the test? Well, 30,000 RPM ...

Rotary engines, also known as Wankel engines, have some of the most rabid and loyal followings of lovabale nutjobs of any pretty-much-failed technology. I think rotaries are fantastic, but, let's be ...

Rejoice, Wankel fans—Mazda is thinking about bringing back the rotary. Granted, we’ve been down this road before and nothing came of it, but this is a different story. The rotary motor likely isn’t ...

Mazda's rotary engine could make a comeback, though its purpose will be much different compared to its previous life powering the automaker's sports cars. Instead, Mazda is toying with the idea of ...

Astron aerospace has shown a partial prototype of a new rotary combustion engine it claims runs at an extraordinary 60% thermal efficiency, burning totally clean with zero NOx emissions and nothing ...