When the Armatron first came out, in 1981, robotics engineers started contacting Watanabe. “I wasn’t so much hearing from ...

Ever wondered how a collaborative SCARA robot manages those precise, lightning-fast movements while safely working alongside humans? These remarkable machines perfectly combine traditional SCARA ...

A new bacteria-inspired robot uses 12 spinning arms to move around the same way bacteria does and scientists want to make it ...

Allentown High School’s Redbird Robotics team has designed and built its own robot, Orca, and are competing in the world championship in Houston.

Robotic tools are too big for ‘keyhole’ brain surgery – but a new miniature technology using magnets could change all that.

This creates challenges in scaling down the instruments, because of difficulties in making the parts of the system, assembling the mechanisms ... robots. Now, the team wants to make sure the ...

The fault lay not with the docking mechanism, but with a stuck thruster ... Modules (MPLM), which get berthed to the station by a robotic arm. In 2011, SpaceX hopes to be the first U.S. business ...

[JesseDarr] recently wrote in to tell us about their dynamic Arm for Robitc Mischief (dARM), a mostly 3D printed six degrees of freedom (6DOF) robotic arm that’s designed to be stronger and more ...

A flexible robotic arm that functions like an elephant’s trunk − capable of twisting while staying pliable in other ...