Fluid robot motion is the result of design choices among five options including pneumatics and strain wave gears.
This multi-objective setup encourages natural walking behavior rather than rigid or inefficient movement. A four-stage ...
Researchers have demonstrated a caterpillar-like soft robot that can move forward, backward and dip under narrow spaces. The caterpillar-bot's movement is driven by a novel pattern of silver nanowires ...
NorthWest African Cheetahs at Chester Zoo. Image by Steve Wilson via Wikipedia (CC BY 2.0) NorthWest African Cheetahs at Chester Zoo. Image by Steve Wilson via Wikipedia (CC BY 2.0) Researchers from ...
A small drone takes a test flight through a space filled with randomly placed cardboard cylinders acting as stand-ins for trees, people or structures. The algorithm controlling the drone has been ...
While the capabilities of robots have improved significantly over the past decades, they are not always able to reliably and ...