National Instruments’ LabVIEW has been used with robots for decades. It mostly has been employed by developers looking to take advantage of graphical programming tools (see “LabVIEW: Graphical ...

WHAT is twice as fun as a motor? Two motors. Last week, we learned how to meet their power-hungry needs. Now, we can double up – and because the micro:bit can control them, we can make a robot that ...

Lyu Jae-cheol, CEO and president of LG Electronics, held a press briefing at CES 2026 on the 7th (local time) and announced, “We will begin a home robot, a household robot, verification project next ...

From R2-D2 to Optimus Prime, Wall-E to The Iron Giant, robots have long captured our collective imaginations. In today’s world, their influence is far less limited to fictional settings; robotics are ...

YOU have battled batteries, mastered motors and conquered coding. Now, far from the humble reading light you made in week 2, you should be able to build an autonomous line-following robot to bring the ...

A developer who writes all the software would need expertise in real-time programming, motor control, AI, maybe some image and video processing, and so on. Fortunately, platforms like ROS (Robot ...

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First released in 2007 by two Stanford PhD students who observed their colleague’s lack of entry into the robotics field, the Robot Operating System (ROS) was developed to be a distributed and modular ...