In tests, a knee-like joint optimized with the new method corrected misalignment by 99 percent compared with a standard joint ...

Consider the marvelous physics of the human knee. The largest hinge joint in the body, it has two rounded bones held together ...

What has opposable thumbs and is the most dexterous tool on the planet? The human hand, obviously. Well … not anymore. At ...

That was three years ago, and since then, campus robots, billboards and an explosion of campus commercialization have cheapened the lifestyle of our campus and community.

Foundational Concepts in Programming Industrial Robots. Before you can get a robot to do anything useful, you need to ...

There were no idle hands at Sharpa's CES booth. The company's humanoid may have been the busiest bot at show, autonomously playing ping-pong, dealing blackjack games and taking selfies with passersby.

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Abstract: This paper presents a robot path generation system using Mixed Reality (MR) for 6-DoF robot programming. The system requires only the robot arm, MR glasses, and a printed marker to ...

In the future, a caregiving machine might gently lift an elderly person out of bed in the morning and help them get dressed. A cleaning bot could trundle through a child’s room, picking up scattered ...

The best way to improve amputees' control over a bionic hand is to give the hand a mind of its own, a new study argues. A bionic hand that's controlled by an artificial intelligence program, but under ...

If you’re going to kill animals for food, don’t waste their parts – that’s just rude. Use everything, snout-to-tail, and not just bones for glue or stomachs for drink-bags, either. Get creative! And ...

In September 2005, MD+DI published a story about researchers at Michigan State University who had built a robot designed for remote breast exams. The robot combined ultrasound technology and video ...