WASHINGTON — A test firing of the first-stage motor of NASA’s planned Ares 1 crew launch vehicle will take place no earlier than Sept. 10 as NASA and its contractor, Alliant Techsystems (ATK), ...

How viral packaging motors generate enormous forces to translocate DNA into viral capsids remains unknown. Recent structural studies of the bacteriophage T4 packaging motor have led to a proposed ...

Electrostatic motors are now common in MEMS applications, but researchers at the University of Wisconsin and spinoff C-Motive Technologies have brought macroscale electrostatic motors back. [via ...

Wisconsin company C-Motive is betting on electrostatic drive rather than magnetism for its proposed industrial motors. “The rotors and stators are made from standard PCBs and have an optimised set of ...

C-Motive Technologies, Inc. is a Madison, Wisconsin based cleantech startup creating the world’s most energy efficient direct-drive motor technology. Through the use of electrostatic forces, the ...

It is pretty damn cool. I wonder if that may be the way to go for e.g. space. Anyone knows any more about such motors? I can't really find much online except for old patent applications and zillion ...