Gitai is developing a family of inchworm robotic arms for use on the Moon and space stations. Credit: Gitai Gitai USA has demonstrated its lunar rover-mounted inchworm robotic arm scooping simulated ...

[Leo Goldstien]’s entry into the world of robotics has been full of stops and starts. Like many beginners, he found traditional robotics instructions overwhelming and hard to follow, bogged down with ...

On July 12, 2011, spacewalking astronauts Mike Fossum and Ron Garan successfully transferred the Robotic Refueling Mission, or RRM, module from the Atlantis shuttle cargo bay to a temporary platform ...

In spite of ongoing political tensions and disrupted spacewalks, the 37-foot-long arm is finally making its first tentative steps in orbit. Reading time 2 minutes The European Space Agency’s giant ...

This setup gives the robot an operational reach of up to 2 meters (6.6 ft), which it can use for tasks like grasping and carrying objects, pressing buttons such as those in elevators, and swiping card ...

A soft armband that lets you steer a robot while you sprint on a treadmill or bob on rough seas sounds like science fiction.

The robotic hand can crawl around on its own, grab small objects, and bring them back to the arm. The robotic hand can crawl around on its own, grab small objects, and bring them back to the arm. is a ...

Hinge joints are usually the simplest to use for robotic applications, but if you want motion that looks more organic, rolling joint (or rolling contact) mechanisms are worth a look. [Skyentific] is ...

Rise Robotics is setting its sights on getting its name in the Guinness Book of World Records for the world's strongest non-hydraulic robotic arm – a record that has remained uncontested for nearly a ...