Robotics
Robotic Automatic Tool Changers (ATC): Machining Tolerances and Procurement Specs for EOAT | EOAT Machining
Published ATC data shows repeatability as tight as 0.0006 in (0.0152 mm), but cycle life and payload limits are model-specific and must be checked under your acceleration, moment, and utility-port loads.
added Oct 19, 2026
Read article →An Assistive Controller for a Lower-Limb Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation after Stroke, and Preliminary Assessment Thereof - PMC
The control architecture was implemented in a lower-limb exoskeleton and a preliminary experimental assessment was conducted in which a patient with hemiparesis resulting from stroke walked with assistance from the exoskeleton. The patient exhibited improvements in fast gait speed, step length asymm…
added Oct 16, 2026
Read article →(PDF) Passive Dynamic Walking
Finally, we confirmed that, with the limit cycle optimized on our NMPC, the bipedal walking robot achieves walking with energy efficiency comparable to that of past passive-dynamic-walking-based robots and of human walking.
added Oct 13, 2026
Read article →Design of a new composite underwater hull cleaning robot - ScienceDirect
Notably, NASA and the California Institute of Technology developed the M2000 wall-climbing robot (Jinyu, 2017), employing a wheeled walking mode and utilizing permanent magnet units for hull wall adhesion. Despite its high cleaning efficiency and speed, this robot is hindered by its intricate and ch…
added Oct 11, 2026
Read article →An automated apple harvesting robot—From system design to field evaluation - Zhang - 2024 - Journal of Field Robotics - Wiley Online Library
Field tests conducted on a V-trellis orchard showed that the system successfully picked 84% apples attempted, and the total cycle time to pick a single fruit was about 7.6 s. However, the orchard had been prethinned with clusters of foliage ...
added Oct 8, 2026
Read article →Enhancing weld quality of novel robotic-arm arc welding: Vision-based monitoring, real-time control seam tracking - ScienceDirect
A seam identification system with multiple morphological feature extraction methods and a constant [18] provides the convolution operator tracker (CCOT) technique for weld seam profiles. These methods monitor a critical weld seam profile region. [17] Images of a segment gap and welding pool were pro…
added Oct 6, 2026
Read article →Pop-Up MEMS: Origami-Inspired Micromanufacturing
This text is about the development of a technique for quickly fabricating microrobots and electromechanical devices at scale for industrial and medical applications.
added Oct 4, 2026
Read article →Super Ball Bot - Structures for Planetary Landing and Exploration - NASA
Achieving Objective 2: In Phase II we will attempt to show that control is robust and practical. In Phase II we propose to evaluate closed-loop control methods that allow the tensegrity to sense and navigate to a desired location.
added Oct 1, 2026
Read article →The Uninterruptible Robot: The Engineering Principles Behind Hot-Swappable Battery Systems
Lithium battery technology drives ... seamless. Hot-swappable battery systems allow robots to replace batteries without stopping, ensuring continuous operation and minimizing downtime....
added Sep 26, 2026
Read article →Thermal Management Strategies for High-Torque Robotic Actuators - Robotics Meta
If the internal temperature surpasses the Curie threshold, the permanent magnets will suffer a permanent loss of magnetic strength, leading to a significant and irreversible reduction in the motor’s torque capability. For applications requiring high duty cycles, such as industrial robot arms or high…
added Sep 24, 2026
Read article →Gotta Grow Fast: Design and Benchmarking of a Tip Mount for High-Speed Vine Robots
Integrating necessary payloads while maintaining high speeds, however, remains a significant challenge, particularly for soft robots, whose structures are lightweight and compliant. Vine robots, soft, inflatable robots that extend by tip eversion [4, 5], have demonstrated their potential in ...
added Sep 21, 2026
Read article →SafeFall: Learning Protective Control for Humanoid Robots
Upon detecting an irrecoverable fall, the system transitions from the nominal controller to a specialized mitigation policy trained to minimize impact damage. We learn this policy using PPO [17] with a reward function that explicitly models component vulnerability alongside motor mechanical ...
added Sep 19, 2026
Read article →Stop Blaming DDS: Tuning ROS 2 Executors to Fix Latency, Jitter, and CPU Spikes | Medium
When some callbacks are long, or lots of entities are ready at the same time, messages pile up in the middleware queues, and the executor walks those entities in a kind of round‑robin order — not strict FIFO across all messages. On a single robot this often shows up as jitter in timers or latency sp…
added Sep 17, 2026
Read article →Cut humanoid robot joint actuator weight by 40–50% | Patsnap
What are the maximum safe winding ... temperature must not exceed 100–120°C. A derating strategy of reducing torque by 10–15% is recommended if temperature exceeds 110°C....
added Sep 15, 2026
Read article →Humanoid Robot Actuators: The Complete Engineering Guide
Without active cooling, it ends in one of two ways: the control system detects the temperature and shuts down the motor (thermal throttling), or the winding insulation fails and the motor is destroyed. Industrial motors solve this problem with airflow. Fans blow air across finned housings, carrying …
added Sep 13, 2026
Read article →Variable Compliance Control for Robotic Peg-in-Hole Assembly: A Deep-Reinforcement-Learning Approach
Our method enables a position-controlled industrial robot manipulator to safely learn contact-rich manipulation tasks by controlling the nominal trajectory, and at the same time, learning variable force control gains for each phase of the task.
added Sep 11, 2026
Read article →Simultaneous calibration of hand-eye and kinematics for industrial robot using line-structured light sensor - ScienceDirect
After calibration and compensation ... 3.967 mm to 1.001 mm. The proposed simultaneous calibration method for hand-eye relationship and kinematics dramatically improves the robot's positioning accuracy....
added Sep 9, 2026
Read article →A Robust Disturbance Rejection Whole-Body Control Framework for Bipedal Robots Using a Momentum-Based Observer - PMC
This approach eliminated the dependency on a precise dynamic model and demonstrated rapid push recovery capabilities. In contrast, the current study differs in two key aspects: First, the focus has shifted to disturbance rejection, whereas the previous work primarily addressed basic standing ...
added Sep 6, 2026
Read article →Harmonic Drive vs Cycloidal Drive: Which Gearbox for Your Robot Joint | PlaPivot
Harmonic drives win on precision ... for the flexspline. Cycloidal drives win on torque density and shock resistance, but often have a small amount of backlash (3-5 arc-min) unless preloaded, which can introduce ...
added Sep 4, 2026
Read article →A robotic device using gecko-inspired adhesives can grasp and manipulate large objects in microgravity | Science Robotics
We also introduce and experimentally ... microgravity show that robotic grippers based on dry adhesion are a viable option for eliminating space debris in low Earth orbit and for enhancing missions in space....
added Sep 2, 2026
Read article →Bilateral teleoperation with delayed force feedback using time domain passivity controller - ScienceDirect
In [20], Hannaford and Ryu proposed a Time Domain Passivity Control (TDPC) for guaranteeing the passivity of haptic interfaces. This approach does not require the power variables to be transformed into wave variables. Instead, a straight-forward notion of energy is used to define passivity of the sy…
added Aug 31, 2026
Read article →Design, modelling and validation of a novel extra slender continuum robot for in-situ inspection and repair in aeroengine - ScienceDirect
Hence, a deep understanding of the fundamental kinematics and statics of the new extra slender continuum robots is needed. In this paper, to develop a novel in-situ aeroengine maintenance technology, the technical requirements for performing invasive repair of aero-engines via borescope inspection p…
added Aug 29, 2026
Read article →Snake-arm robot - Wikipedia
University of Nottingham: Research into continuum robots for in-situ repair applications ... OC Robotics: manufacturing for the aerospace sector (automated assembly of aircraft), security (robotics for counter-terrorism), nuclear (decommissioning and asset management), and other industries (inspecti…
added Aug 29, 2026
Read article →Event Cameras, Event camera SLAM, Event-based Vision, Event-based Camera, Event SLAM
By leveraging event-based vision and SNNs, our solution achieves high-speed optical flow prediction with nearly two orders of magnitude less complexity, without compromising accuracy. This breakthrough paves the way for efficient real-time deployments in various computer vision pipelines.
added Aug 27, 2026
Read article →Universal robotic gripper based on the jamming of granular material | PNAS
Here we demonstrate a completely different approach to a universal gripper. Individual fingers are replaced by a single mass of granular material that, when pressed onto a target object, flows around it and conforms to its shape.
added Aug 25, 2026
Read article →2DLIW-SLAM:2D LiDAR-Inertial-Wheel Odometry with Real-Time Loop Closure
While wheel odometry substantively contributes to the positioning process, seamless cooperation among various sensors, coupled with adept loop closure detection, effectively counteracts wheel odometry drift errors as figure 5(b), culminating in remarkable positioning and mapping precision.
added Aug 23, 2026
Read article →An Overview of Cable‐Driven Parallel Robots: Workspace, Tension Distribution, and Cable Sagging - Tho - 2022 - Mathematical Problems in Engineering - Wiley Online Library
Richard Verhoeven and Manfred Hiller [61] provide a method for determining the cable tension of CDPRs with more than one DORs, this method is based on convex polyhedron analysis of the solution space region for the equilibrium equation. The optimal result is a solution that minimizes the tension of …
added Aug 21, 2026
Read article →ISO 10218 & ISO/TS 15066: Robot Safety Guide | AMD Machines
Type 3 safety laser scanners monitor 2D floor areas and support multiple configurable zones — useful for implementing speed and separation monitoring in custom robotic cells. Safety-rated speed control allows personnel to operate near the robot at reduced speed during setup, programming, and mainten…
added Aug 20, 2026
Read article →Magnetic Microrobots for Drug Delivery: A Review of Fabrication Materials, Structure Designs and Drug Delivery Strategies - PMC
This enables microrobots to achieve a variety of movement modes, such as rolling, tumbling or spiral swimming, so that they can accurately navigate in the sticky fluid and blood vessel network without carrying fuel. In addition, the magnetic field can penetrate human tissue with extremely small atte…
added Aug 18, 2026
Read article →Series Elastic Actuators in Robotics
A Series Elastic Actuator (SEA) is an actuation system in which a compliant (elastic) element is intentionally inserted in series between a motor and its load. This design imparts controlled mechanical compliance, with substantial impact on ...
added Aug 16, 2026
Read article →Fully-Actuated Aerial Manipulator for Infrastructure Contact Inspection: Design, Modeling, Localization, and Control - PMC
Health assessment of transport ... robot presented in the paper includes a 3DoF lightweight arm with a sensorized passive joint which can measure the contact force to regulate the force applied with the sensor on the structure....
added Aug 14, 2026
Read article →Multi-Agent Path Finding with Real Robot Dynamics and Interdependent Tasks for Automated Warehouses
In summary, we propose a novel approach to address the lifelong MAPF problem in a realistic and challenging warehouse setting: with constrained space, interdependent tasks and complex real robot dynamics. Our contributions are the following: ... We introduce the Interleaved Prioritized Planning ...
added Aug 12, 2026
Read article →Supervised autonomous robotic soft tissue surgery | Science Translational Medicine
Inspired by the best human surgical practices, a computer program generates a plan to complete complex surgical tasks on deformable soft tissue, such as suturing and intestinal anastomosis.
added Aug 11, 2026
Read article →Robotic Servicing Arm - NASA
With such a high level of maneuverability, this arm is ideally suited for missions requiring autonomous capture and dexterous operations; from grabbing a satellite for on-orbit servicing, to extracting a boulder from a spinning asteroid, to ...
added Aug 9, 2026
Read article →Bioinspired soft robots for deep-sea exploration | Nature Communications
High pressure and low temperature are the greatest challenges faced by scientists to explore deep oceans, which remain largely unknow to us today. Li et al. review these challenges and give insight into designing soft robots, inspired by deep-sea creatures, that enable resilient operations ...
added Aug 7, 2026
Read article →Frontiers | Autonomous diode laser weeding mobile robot in cotton field using deep learning, visual servoing and finite state machine
Autonomous laser weeding offers a more precise and efficient method of weed control compared to traditional methods, potentially reducing herbicide use and promoting sustainable agricultural practices with minimal environmental risks.
added Aug 6, 2026
Read article →Programmable self-assembly in a thousand-robot swarm
We report a system that demonstrates programmable self-assembly of complex two-dimensional shapes with a thousand-robot swarm. This was enabled by creating autonomous robots designed to operate in large groups and to cooperate through local interactions and by developing a collective algorithm for s…
added Aug 4, 2026
Read article →Isaac Sim-to-Real: Reinforcement Learning based Locomotion for Quadrupeds
The policy is subsequently validated on the Unitree Go1 quadruped through extensive hardware experiments, a performance benchmark against the platform’s integrated controller. ... An end-to-end RL-based locomotion policy with a zero-shot transfer to the Unitree Go1. ... Techniques in domain randomiz…
added Aug 2, 2026
Read article →Distributed and stretchable tactile sensing for dexterous robotic hands based on a crosslinked interpenetrating network | Science China Materials | Springer Nature Link
This design results in a thin, soft, transparent, and stretchable tactile sensor array that integrates seamlessly with a commercial dexterous hand. The sensor array exhibits high interlayer tensile strength, high sensitivity, low hysteresis, along with excellent long-term reliability over 10000 load…
added Jul 31, 2026
Read article →Vision-Language-Action Models and the Search for a Generalist Robot Policy
As I said above, VLAs have both a “vision-language model” head — a general purpose visual encoder, which converts images into tokens — and a diffusion policy (-ish) output.
added Jul 29, 2026
Read article →Artificial Muscles: Electrostatic Actuation and Design Tradeoffs
By combining electrostatic zipping with hydraulic pressure, jumping robots with spider-inspired electrohydraulic joints can achieve jump heights ten times their own height [9]. Other antagonistic joints can be created by pairing HASEL actuators with electrostatic clutches to achieve full ranges of m…
added Jul 27, 2026
Read article →Humanoid Robots Are Coming To Factories. But Not The Way You Think
Traditional industrial robots — massive, quick, purpose-built, accurate to many nines — already do enormous amounts of work, and that will keep growing. Humanoids will show up in factories, warehouses, logistics, farms, and homes. But we ...
added Jul 26, 2026
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