iRobot, a bomb disposal and exploratory robot maker, now has a highly advanced, comprehensive controller for its line-up of unmanned vehicles — all from your Android tablet.

Controlling several robots from the same controller will certainly save you money, but is it a smart control strategy? It can be, as the experience of thousands of users has demonstrated since the ...

Robots are connected to the network using POWERLINK, the real-time Ethernet standard. When using a higher-level controller, the controllers for the Stäubli robots are switched into passive mode, which ...

Explore how researchers are using quantum computing to enhance the movement of robots, making them more efficient and smooth.

Robots designed for neurorehabilitation, specifically for supporting arm and leg movement and motor relearning, are ...

Why not apply lessons from nature to robotics? This is what did researchers from Japan and U.K. who built an interface between a plant and an omnidirectional hexapod robot. The interaction loop ...

Conventional approaches to robot control assume rigidity in the linkage structure of the robot and are a poor fit for controlling soft bodies, thus soft materials require new algorithms.

Universal Robots' latest cobot, the UR8 Long, has the reach of the UR20 but with less mass and advanced motion control.