Pneumatics is the use of pressurized air to do a mechanical motion. Pneumatic power is used in industry, dentistry, construction, mining, and other areas.

Pneumatics works by taking the air around us and compressing or ‘squishing’ it into a smaller volume which increases it’s pressure. That pressure is then used to apply a force to create a movement. To understand, think of those joke snakes in a can, when it is out of the can, it just lays there, but when pushed into the small space it wants to extend, so when the lid comes off, “pow”.