Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of advanced systems that can move around in their ...

Justin Bieber will join robotics company Tosy at CES 2012 on Wednesday, but we got a look at some of the company's other robots and they're pretty awesome. Bonnie Cha was a former chief correspondent ...

After a decade of planning, one lab has created a device that might make a common procedure safer and simpler. Late one night in 1982, a Yale University medical student named Martin Yarmush witnessed ...

If you grew up playing with LOGO on an old 8-bit computer, you’re probably familiar with the concept of a drawbot. It’s a simple robot that drags a pen around to draw on paper. [Tim] decided to build ...

Artists everywhere, take heed: there's a robot pining for your jobs, and it's pretty good at what it does. The mDrawBot is a 4-in-1 robot that is able to hold a pen or pencil and draw images onto ...

Force/torque (F/T) sensors are critical components of robot systems used for assembly, test, and other applications. Sensor systems help robots verify part insertion, apply a constant force during ...

This article is part of a series of articles based on common questions in robotics. The previous article dealt with the question: What is a robot? Robots are machines designed to perform tasks – ...

As one of the most important components in robots, sensors can be categorized into proprioceptive sensors and exteroceptive sensors. Proprioceptive sensors measure internal data such as joint speed, ...