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Blog: Software
A new algorithm finds robots the best path across uneven terrain — and the best placement for a robot’s arms and feet.
Articles: Motion Control
Explore manufacturers and products in over 25 motion-design categories.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
MIT researchers have designed a sharp-tipped robot finger equipped with tactile sensing to meet the challenge of identifying buried objects. Digger Finger was able to dig through granular media such as...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
USC researchers unveiled a new simulator for robotic cutting that can accurately reproduce the forces acting on a knife as it slices through common food such as fruit and vegetables. The...
Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Will ‘Air Power’ Boost the Use of Soft Robots?
Our second INSIDER story today highlighted William Grover and his UC Riverside team’s efforts to swap electronics with air.
Briefs: Transportation
Solid-state batteries offer a higher level of safety and potentially longer life than lithium-ion batteries.
Briefs: Transportation
The lightweight brake rotor design with high heat dissipation uses novel surface cooling technology.
Facility Focus: Manufacturing & Prototyping
WPI supports research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, cybersecurity, and fire safety.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The robot firmly but gently grasps objects as small as 1 millimeter in diameter.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Learn about widely used communications technologies for motion control.
Briefs: Materials
SMA tube elements drive rotary and ring gear motion in compact, powerful actuators.
Briefs: Aerospace
This below-the-hook device enables gentle crane placement to decrease the risk of property damage.
Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
An OEM must think about how to build a machine that will work on any kind of power system.
Articles: Semiconductors & ICs
These common pneumatic circuits can be used alone or as building blocks in larger pneumatics systems.
Application Briefs: Motion Control
RightHand Robotics combines machine vision with an intelligent gripper design to make more adaptable robots.
Briefs: Motion Control
This artificial muscle technology enables more human-like motion.
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
A connection between electricity and mechanical motion in soft, rubber-like materials could improve robot range.
Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Linear motion bearings, magnetic angle encoders, isolation valves, and more.
Briefs: Motion Control
Oscillatory and rotational motions of different parts are combined to pave the way to developing super-miniaturized mechanical devices.
Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A new generation of long-life electric linear actuators has emerged to give designers more flexibility.
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Learn the differences between bipolar and unipolar motors, their driving methods, and advantages and limitations.
Blog: Electronics & Computers
While soft robots hold promise in applications ranging from search-and-rescue efforts to wearable exoskeletons, the technologies are often held back by the electronics, says William Grover, a...
INSIDER: Motion Control
A team of scientists has uncovered how heavy, motorized objects climb steep slopes — a newly discovered mechanism that also mimics how rock climbers navigate inclines. The “micro-swimmers” are about 20...
INSIDER: Motion Control
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University developed a method that allows non-contact manipulation of small objects using sound waves.
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Engineers at UC Riverside developed an air-powered computer memory that can be used to control soft robots. Existing systems for controlling pneumatic soft robots still use electronic valves...
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
UC Berkeley engineers have created a lightweight and durable robot that achieves exquisite control and agility by modulating the electrostatic forces between its feet and surfaces.
Briefs: Materials
This system enhances processing via real-time, non-destructive defect tracking.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The system enables robots to predict what their human coworker will do next.
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