NEW YORK — Imagine a robot. Not just any robot, but the kind that goes into nuclear accidents for industrial clean-up, or out in the field on bomb disposal duty. It's a rough life for a robot. But you ...

Controlling robots in complex environments is not an easy task, but it would greatly increase their usages. Yet living organisms are facing complexity and successfully dealing with it. So why not ...

One of the major challenges of animatronics is creating natural looking motion. You can build something with an actuator for every possible degree of freedom, but it will still be disappointing if you ...

The Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the DLR cooperates with several robot manufacturers. The main issues are to improve the dynamic performance of industrial robots by optimizing feedforward ...

Figure 1: Mobile soft-robotic systems inspired by a range of biological systems. The key challenge for creating soft machines that achieve their full potential is the development of controllable soft ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...