Textbooks that provide a broad algorithmic perspective on the mechanics and dynamics of robots almost unfailingly serve students at the graduate level. Introduction to Autonomous Robots offers a ...

Most robots use electric actuators, but this little fella packs a lot more punch. Researchers have created a new type of minuscule combustion engine that gives this tiny frog robot explosive leaping ...

The team of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder was inspired by organic muscles to develop the soft "actuators." The technology could streamline bulky metal androids and enable them to ...

Many of the robotic systems developed in the past decades are inspired by four-legged (i.e., quadruped) animals, such as dogs, cheetahs and horses. By replicating the agile movements of these animals, ...

The Chinese robotics company LimX has given its CL-2 humanoid robot new actuators with high-torque electric motors. Thanks to their new design, the new actuators have a positive effect on body balance ...

Why and how the flexible actuators were fabricated. How they were used in an aerial micro-robot. The performance obtained with these actuators. While the electronics for drones and aerial robots of ...

In this chapter, I will present a few useful “cookbook” applications for real-time control circuits designed to perform some specific low-level task and interface with a master controller for ...

Most animals can quickly transition from walking to jumping to crawling to swimming if needed without reconfiguring or making major adjustments. Most robots cannot. But researchers have now created ...