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Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
A panel of experts explains how robots are playing a larger role in manufacturing.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
These hands, with a large grasping force, enable safer human-robot interactions.
Briefs: Automotive
This detector could help robots, drones, and self-driving cars avoid collisions.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
An invention similar to an elephant’s trunk has potential benefits for many industries where handling delicate objects is essential. UNSW Sydney developed a soft fabric robotic gripper that...
INSIDER: Data Acquisition
Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) working in collaboration with colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of St Andrews and the University of...
Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Will Mobile Docking Stations Become an Essential Part of Underwater Exploration?
An INSIDER story this month highlighted an innovative way of supporting underwater robots: mobile docking stations.
Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Medical Robotics - November 2020
From the operating room to the assembly line, robots are changing the medical industry. Check out the latest advances and amazing applications in this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Medical...Briefs: Imaging
MIT engineers are envisioning robots more like home helpers.
Briefs: Imaging
See how tantalum disulfide is supporting new kinds of optics, and potentially new kinds of application for VR and self-driving cars.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
This form of thermal management can help enable untethered, high-powered robots to operate for long periods of time without overheating.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The Tentacle Bot can grip, move, and manipulate a wide range of objects.
Briefs: Imaging
Future robots could be taught how to outperform humans.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This technology enables robots, electronic devices, and prosthetic devices to feel pain through sense of touch.
Briefs: Energy
Adaptable automation reduces manufacturing time and costs.
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The robot blocks jump, spin, flip, and identify each other.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
NASA’s DuAxel, a pair of two-wheeled rovers each called Axel, can split in half with each half connected only by a tether that unspools as the lead axle approaches a hazard.
Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Would You Use a ‘SwingBot?’
A “SwingBot” robotic arm from MIT can learn the physical features of a handheld object through tactile exploration. Instead of using cameras or vision methods, the robot’s grippers use GelSight tactile sensors that measure the pose and force distribution of the object. Watch the demo on Tech Briefs TV.
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
A robot being tested at the University of California San Diego takes after an aquatic invertebrate that has a jet-like way moving through the water: The Squid.
Blog: Energy
Researcher Nina Mahmoudian is finding a new way for underwater robots to recharge and upload their data, and then go back out to continue exploring, without the need for human intervention.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers created a way to send tiny, soft robots into humans. Doctors would use magnetic fields to steer the soft robot inside the body, bringing medications or treatments to places that need them.
Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Aerospace & Defense - October 2020
In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs and Aerospace & Defense Technology, you'll learn about NASA's return to the moon with Apollo's twin sister Artemis, how autonomous...Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This mini robot improves precision and control of teleoperated surgical procedures.
Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
Accelerometers, actuators, hexapods, and more.
Articles: Motion Control
By consolidating tasks traditionally performed by multiple devices into a single, high-performing controller, manufacturers can improve operations.
Briefs: Motion Control
A soft hydrogel, driven by an oscillatory chemical reaction, produces an autonomous integrated pump for microfluidic applications.
Briefs: Unmanned Systems
This capability will optimize performance of the vehicle through different phases of flight.
Briefs: Materials
This method could impact optical technologies such as smartphone cameras, biosensors, or autonomous vision for robots and self-driving cars.
Briefs: Imaging
Tiny aircraft that weigh as much as a fruit fly could serve as Martian atmospheric probes.
Articles: Imaging
New collaborative robot-based vision systems are changing how manufacturers can inspect their parts.
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