Most robots use electric actuators, but this little fella packs a lot more punch. Researchers have created a new type of minuscule combustion engine that gives this tiny frog robot explosive leaping ...
Despite major advancements in robotics and the huge potential it has to make our lives easier, robots are still mostly stuck in industrial settings. We have seen a few robots enter homes, healthcare, ...
A team from NCCR robotics in Switzerland has devised squishy, air-powered actuators that can be combined to make remarkably flexible, squishy robots. Most autonomous machines rely on servomotors to ...
Remember those toys that sprang up into the air after you pushed them down? They're called poppers, and they've inspired an actuator that could one day allow soft-bodied robots to jump across rough ...
The robot, built by local robotics firm OryLab and called OriHime, offers guided walking tours to visitors to Japan’s capital ...
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Video: Atlas humanoid robot gets 3-fingered hands to lift delicate and heavy objects
Karl Price, mechanical engineer for Atlas, demonstrated the updated three-fingered gripper. The second-generation device has seven degrees of freedom and seven actuators, with two actuators for each ...
While advances in machine learning may make the robot apocalypse seem imminent, we can at least rest easy knowing that these robots are still too clunky and too slow to really chase us down. But, that ...
This article is part of a series of articles based on common questions in robotics. The previous article dealt with the question: What is a robot? Robots are machines designed to perform tasks – ...
Inexpensive robots of all forms are on the rise. Meka uses compliant actuators called series elastic actuators (SEAs) in nearly all joints of its robotic systems. A spring between motor and load ...
Engineers have developed a way to build soft robots that are compact, portable and multifunctional. The advance was made possible by creating soft, tubular actuators whose movements are electrically ...
Researchers have presented an edible robotic actuator, offering a potential leap forward towards the overall goal of an edible robot. Why edible robots? Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of ...
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