For example, to use a DC motor in a robot leg, one might expect to need a gearbox, a motor driver, plus an encoder for position sensing.

Technology nowadays can really spur creativity and there's nothing you can't do with a 3D printer, CAAD and some skills. Like a surveillance military robot.

Hey robot futurist! We've got one word for you: Actuators. They're the motorized joints that make robots strong, agile, and precise and they're getting better all the time.

A team of researchers has come up with a system that allows anyone to make a walking robot using only a 3-D printer and an off-the-shelf motor.

The old song tells us that the leg bone is connected to the hip bone, but how are we to know if the articulated cam can connect to the brushless motor?

4. 3 V round disc battery. 5. Pancake motor (Vibration Motor DC3V 12000rpm Mini Vibration Motor) 6. Paper to make robot head and robot body. 7. Markers or crayons to decorate. Instructions: 1.

ShengShu's Vidar technology revolutionizes humanoid robot training by using AI-generated synthetic video, reducing required ...

The robot moves, but with a jerking motion, and keeps making unintended turns. The primary cause of this seems to be the wobbly rotors, which mean that the output torque fluctuates throughout the ...

Actuators make robots leap and run and do backflips and lift 500-pound pipes (different robots, mind you, thank God). The electric car? That’s impressive as hell, but just the beginning.