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.

Dr Charles Buhler has been the lead NASA scientist on Electrostatics. An experiment last month was sent to the moon and ...

The team had already observed adhesion due to electrostatic charge in previous drop tower experiments. Because only about nine seconds of measurement time in microgravity were possible there ...