The Shadow Robot Company's take on the robotic hand, introduced in 2007, draws its power and dexterity from compressed air. Forty "muscles" made of rubber tubing are attached to various points on the ...

Spherical mobile robots represent a versatile class of autonomous systems that encapsulate the mechanical advantages of a sealed, omnidirectional shell with innovative internal actuation mechanisms.

A group of engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) has developed a four-legged robot dog. The team at EPFL's Computational Robot Design & Fabrication Lab (CREATE), ...

China’s humanoid robot Bolt hit 10 m/s (22.4 mph), tripling the 4 m/s record, showing what faster leg design can achieve.

Inverting the Fanuc LR Mate 200iD six-axis robot (rear, center) significantly reduced the machine’s footprint. A creative "vanishing tray" design uses pneumatic cylinders to drop empty trays through ...

In an interesting exploration of AI capabilities, researchers at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and EPFL have collaborated with OpenAI's viral chatbot ChatGPT to tackle a new challenge: ...

Built to measure the movement, location or displacement of an object along a linear or rotational path, position sensing in humanoid robots is needed to detect movement and convert it into signals ...