Automation and Robotics

    Enhance Your Industrial Network Security to Fortify IT/OT Convergence

    Following the pandemic, the past two years have been synonymous with a rapidly changing global environment. More than ever, businesses are encountering uncertainties, such...

    Autonomous Robots in Manufacturing: Pros and Cons

    Robotic systems have been crucial to modern manufacturing since their introduction to the industry in 1961 by inventor George Devol. With the first manufacturing-centred...

    StickBot: A Robot Made of Sticks

    Powered by four AA batteries, connected by a maze of wires and blinking lights, StickBot's wooden arms now thump up and over, powering the...

    Multi Functional Caterpillar like Soft Millirobots

    When you hear the term "robot," you might think of complicated machinery working in factories or roving on other planets. But "millirobots" might change...

    Robot that Draws Circuits with Conductive Ink

    Recent technological advancements have paved the way for the creation of increasingly sophisticated robotic systems designed to autonomously complete missions in different familiar and...

    New Robots Require New Ways to Think about Processors

    We’re on the cusp of a revolution in robots. After years of relatively moderate growth, sales of commercial and industrial robots are slated to...

    Accelerating the Commercialization of Stretchable Electronics

    Carnegie Mellon mechanical engineering researchers have developed a new scalable and reproducible manufacturing technique that could accelerate the mainstream adoption and commercialization of soft...

    Pneumatic Energy System for Assistive Robotics

    Mechanical engineers at Rice University's George R. Brown School of Engineering have built a handy extra limb able to grasp objects and go, powered...

    Aquabots the Ultrasoft Liquid Robots

    In recent years, roboticists have developed a wide variety of robotic systems with different body structures and capabilities. Most of these robots are either...

    Aiming to Enhance Human-robot Collaboration with AI

    Artificial intelligence (AI) methods have become increasingly advanced over the past few decades, attaining remarkable results in many real-world tasks. Nonetheless, most existing AI...

    Scratching the 6G Surface

    “We can imagine completely autonomous systems; or multi-sensory extended reality which integrates the five traditional human senses with the digital world; or real-time remote...

    Sensor Fusion Comes of Age

    Over time, sensors have morphed from simple analog and mechanical constructs to chip-based digital devices that connect to a machine to monitor the machine’s...

    New Mobile Robots for Safe and Effective Collaboration

    Teams of mobile robots could be highly effective in helping humans to complete straining manual tasks, such as manufacturing processes or the transportation of...

    Simple Actuators for Complex Motions

    Inflatable soft actuators that can change shape with a simple increase in pressure can be powerful, lightweight, and flexible components for soft robotic systems....

    A Major Revolution in Maintenance: AI/IoT-Guided Predictive Maintenance that Prevents Downtime

    Manufacturers in all industries know the key to better productivity is keeping the production equipment running smoothly without unexpected stops. Short stoppages often do...

    Related News