How to Use servo in a Sentence

servo

noun

• These two servos, combined with the carbon fiber frame and spiny feet, weigh only 11 grams.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Mar. 2016
• As the servos move, the angles between the cells determine Loopy’s overall shape.
  — Trevor Smith, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2024
• The second five words in the list — milliamp, neodymium, degauss, aileron, servo — are much more commonly known by men.
  — Kara Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2022
• He was tasked, along with other engineers from England, to design a servo control loop.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026
• So much depends upon a red puzzle cube, pinned by servo motors, inside Mitsubishi.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 6 June 2024
• Extra servos in the shoulders let the arms swing widely, while the leg joints allow crouching and shifting positions.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
• All the gears are indirect, with the famous—and flawless—Porsche servo-ring synchromesh.
  — Car and Driver, 27 Jan. 2023
• This information is transmitted to a system of fans and servo motors that controls how much of each of each scent to release.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2016
• Its knee joint servo motors can give the wearer a 40% boost in power by assisting their quads and hammies during a walk or hike.
  — New Atlas, 28 July 2024
• The receiving unit is mounted on a counterbalanced arm that can be precisely moved by a servo motor.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 2 Mar. 2026
• Howe holds the long string of cables attaching it to an Arduino unit, which controls the servos that bend and straighten each body segment.
  — Matthew Francis, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2018
• With simulation of the crawling gait, the driving torques of different joints contributed to the choice of servos and the size of links of legs.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2019
• The fin and body of the robot are constructed from silicone and six wooden fin rays actuated by servo motors.
  — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2018
• There’s no power steering, brake servo, ABS, or traction control.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2026
• While quadcopters steer by changing the speed of the four rotors, tricopters need variable-pitch propellers, controlled by a small servo motor.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
• The stylus is then lowered for play, with the grinding sounds of the servo simultaneously silenced.
  — New Atlas, 6 Mar. 2026
• As such, the rider gets a lovely, mechanical feel at the handlebar, not one fettled by outside servo motors.
  — Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 6 May 2022
• The brakes are the same electro-servo system used in the NSX but with slightly less aggressive tuning.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 24 Sep. 2020
• Housed in a durable aluminum alloy chassis, the robot uses high-voltage servos with metal gears and thermal protection.
  — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 23 Apr. 2026
• Tiny micro servos hidden inside the body control the robot’s arms, front hatch, eye movement and head articulation.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 May 2026
• Critically, all of the functional parts of the robotic hand, apart from the servos and the pressure sensors, were produced in a single printing job.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023
• The third mode, visual servo simulation docking, relied on a visual servo system.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Apr. 2026
• Every aspect of the laser assembly and servo has been optimized to reduce read errors, jitter and other forms of distortion.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• That’s more of a function of some stickiness in our servo gear train and our power-hungry microprocessor than any fundamental law.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Mar. 2016
• That includes a brushless motor, two servo motors, a battery, a gear unit, and a number of circuit boards for radio, control, and localization.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2020
• The nozzle moves on tracks or gantries (some have two axes, some more), assisted sometimes by actuators, servo motors, rack-and-pinion structures, or slide guides.
  — WIRED, 28 Aug. 2022
• His approach cost his helicopter the servos, and upon his landing more NVA fire took out the main rotor blades and transmission.
  — Barry Barnett, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2024
• That’s an astonishing 17 percent improvement in the servo’s efficiency, which means more cars coming off the line faster.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2018
• The power supplies that feed the motor and laser servo circuits are separated from the decoder stage that processes the digital audio signal.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• The end result is a climbing mechanism that uses one high torque-density servo to drive long steps up the wall, and one even smaller servo to actuate motion towards and away from the wall.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Mar. 2016