Robotics

igus now offers fully assembled dress-packs for rapid replacement of energy chain systems on welding robots. A custom designed, drop-in replacement, these complete solutions can be connected quickly and easily to the robot, thereby minimising production downtime.  

For the past several years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been developing a class of walking "bio-bots" powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical and optical pulses. Now, Rashid Bashir's research group is sharing the recipe for the current generation of bio-bots. Their how-to paper is the cover article in Nature Protocols.

Quantum replicants of responsive systems can be more efficient than classical models, say researchers from the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore, because classical models have to store more past information than is necessary to simulate the future. They have published their findings in npj Quantum Information. The word 'replicant' evokes thoughts of a sci-fi world where society has replaced common creatures with artificial ma...

Manufacturing operations across a range of industries rely on dispense technology for adhesive and bonding applications. While in some cases manual dispensing is adequate, robot dispensing delivers greater accuracy and therefore ensure final product quality. Customised robot dispensing technology can prove critical to high quality fluid dispensing applications.

  After 112 years, the Natural History Museum, London have decided to remove the iconic Dippy the Diplodocus. The specimen will be replaced with the real skeleton of a blue whale that was found on an Irish beach in 1891. Dippy will now embark on a UK tour around eight venues. 

  The ability to perceive and understand the dynamics of the real world is critical for the next generation of robots. An EU initiative explored vision, which is essential for most robotic tasks. Robots need a way to adaptively select relevant information in a given scene for further processing.

This tutorial will show you to develop a python based wireless robot which can be controlled from anywhere around the world using WiFi.

They have appeared in several horror films, and one day will probably take over the world, but for now robots are landing in London for most of 2017. The Science Museum in London is hosting a major exhibition, and has extracted some of the most complex and bizarre robots ever created.

  Scientists at Heriot-Watt University are part of a consortium of experts delivering a human-robotics hybrid solution for the maintenance and operation of offshore wind farms. 

How do you make sure that a product can handle the wear and tear of an expected life cycle and that all safety and quality standards are met? You test it. Over and over again. Nothing is more repetitive than product testing – lending itself to one of the “3D jobs” that robots excel at: dirty, dangerous…and dull. Increasingly, collaborative robots – or cobots - are now being used for product testing.