Robots are developed for a wide variety of uses. These include assembly, welding, monitoring marine life, rescue and recovery and even vacuuming the floor. Because of this, there is a multitude of ...

A technological and market evaluation of the sensors used in robots by sensor type and applications. Mobile robots, drones, industrial robotic arms, cobots, and service robots. Sensor types including ...

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 – ...

Robot Sensors is an overview of common sensors used with robots, their functions, and their applications. Sensors provide robots with an awareness of their environment and the ability to execute tasks ...

Think about robots, and up pop images of soulless automatons made out of metal and circuits. But a team from the University of Texas at Arlington has just won a $1.35 million National Science ...

The system was tested on the $16,000 Unitree G1 humanoid robot. It uses only built-in RGB cameras and relies fully on simulation-trained reinforcement learning. This lets the robot open many types of ...