NEW YORK — Imagine a robot. Not just any robot, but the kind that goes into nuclear accidents for industrial clean-up, or out in the field on bomb disposal duty. It's a rough life for a robot. But you ...

Microsoft's Kinect may have had some troubles establishing itself as a consumer games console controller, but when it was put in the hands of hackers it became something else entirely. Microsoft ...

This is possible thanks to a POWERLINK interface on Stäubli's uniVAL drives that allows Generic Motion Control programs from B&R controllers to be transferred to the robots. In this way, robotics ...

Figure 1: Mobile soft-robotic systems inspired by a range of biological systems. The key challenge for creating soft machines that achieve their full potential is the development of controllable soft ...

When robots are built with biological materials, they have the potential to achieve remarkable behaviors typically only seen ...

It can be, as the experience of thousands of users has demonstrated since the technology was developed a decade ago. For this reason, most robot builders offer controller models that can manage two ...

The Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the DLR cooperates with several robot manufacturers. The main issues are to improve the dynamic performance of industrial robots by optimizing feedforward ...

One of the major challenges of animatronics is creating natural looking motion. You can build something with an actuator for every possible degree of freedom, but it will still be disappointing if you ...