Robots generally have a single arm that has from two to six axes of motion. With a typical six-axis robot, the arm is positioned in three axes and the robot wrist is positioned in the other three.

Robot builders make a convincing case that in 2001, robots are where personal computers were in 1980-poised to break into the marketplace as common corporate tools and ubiquitous consumer products ...

Sam Kriegman, a professor at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, is something of a local celebrity. He can often be found on television shows explaining the wonders of his new invention – ...

It took nature millions of years to create intelligent, adaptive species. Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois ...

This video is part of TechXchange: ROS: Robot Operating System This is a presentation and short overview of some ROS 2 courseware that's useful in learning about the open-source, Robot Operating ...

Artificial intelligence can design an autonomous robot in 30 seconds flat on a laptop or smartphone. It’s not quite time to panic about just anybody being able to create the Terminator while waiting ...

Smart homes have come a long way from app-controlled lights and voice assistants. Now, the next leap may be far ...

A research team from the Robotics and AI Institute (RAI) has developed a two-wheeled, bicycle-like robot platform called the ...

The easiest way to get kids interested in robots is to show them Star Wars, but that’s admittedly a limited experience. The next best thing might be Sphero’s new kid-friendly robot called indi which ...

How do you approach your robot designs? Maybe, you do it from a ‘oh, I have these cool parts’ position, or from a ‘I want to make a platform on wheels for my experiments’ perspective. In that case, ...