robotics

The 2020 Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics & Automation Award went to Photoneo and its high-resolution MotionCam-3D scanner that captures quick-moving objects and delivers the sharpest eyes for industrial robots. The novel…

Wireless charging is common in consumer and medical electronics applications. Now, scientists have created a control strategy that dynamically changes transmitter currents for wireless charging in robots and electric cars. In a recently…

MIT just developed a system that optimizes a robot’s shape based on an application’s intended terrain. The system simulates different shapes to establish which design is best for what the robot must do and where they will do it. Dubbed…

COVID-19 has undoubtedly changed the way the world works—in some cases permanently. And, in a sense, some of the changes have even been for the better—particularly some of the new uses we’re finding for technology. Some of the coolest…

Biologists have always been the world’s biggest fans of fruit flies, with Drosophila melanogaster considered superstars for their contributions to the science of genetics. Now, they’re being studied by engineers who, by examining how fruit…

Even pre-engineered robotic cells are expensive. The ArcWorld 1200 welding cell costs approximately $150,000 USD, about the same as a custom cell, but with the advantage of being plug and play. Recently though, engineers at the…

By 2016, 50% of our seafood was the product of aquaculture. With a sea cage holding up to 200,000 farmed salmon, aquaculture is big business. If the cage sustains damage, such as a hole in the nets, the fish could swim out through the…

Columbia Engineers first to demonstrate a robotic finger with a highly precise sense of touch over a complex, multicurved surface. Researchers at Columbia Engineering announced today that they have introduced a new type of robotic finger…

UCLA engineers have developed minuscule warehouse logistics robots that could help expedite and automate medical diagnostic technologies and other applications that move and manipulate tiny drops of fluid. The robots are disc-shaped…

For self-driving vehicles to become an everyday reality, they need to safely and flawlessly navigate one another without crashing or causing unnecessary traffic jams. To help make this possible, Northwestern University researchers have…