However, if the collision detection by the embedded joint torque sensor and the subsequent reaction fail due to the limited bandwidth of the sensor, the safety mechanism composed of purely mechanical elements such as springs and a cam follower absorbs the collision force.
Knocked From the Game Still, even the youngest bodies cannot always easily absorb the fiercest collisions in football.
She said it would cost little more to produce cars with life-saving technologies like air bags and crumple zones, which absorb the energy of a collision.
A specific role played by these methods in modeling energetic particle solid collisions is to absorb the excess energy wave generated by the collision that, if left unchecked, propagates through the material and reflects from the system boundaries.
Other smart touches include a cross beam set to car height, to help absorb the impact in a side collision.
Sales literature from the Massachusetts-based company asserted that the front section could "ride with the punch of a collision and absorb the shock of impact" while occupants in the rear section would be isolated from the crash.
Among the future possibilities: bridges that won't buckle under severe seismic stress, a new generation of Frank Gehry-inspired forms of improbably twisted steel, car frames that can absorb the shock of head-on collisions and, yes, knives that may never need sharpening.
If you fall, anything that can absorb the shock and diminish the impact of a head collision could help.
But it will take me a long time to absorb the ways of this place, its contradictions and odd juxtapositions, its collision of cultures.
Up close, the ball arriving on a player's racket in this power age feels more like a collision, as the strings and then the body absorb the impact.
