Robotic arms and legs provide robots with reach and the ability to affect the robot’s position and its environment. This book examines the process of controlling and tracking robotic limbs. It ...

A robotic arm is an excellent idea if you’re looking to get started with electromechanical projects. There’s linkages to design, and motors to drive, but there’s also the matter of control. This is ...

A Columbia Engineering team has created a robot that is able to learn a model of its entire body from scratch. In a nutshell, the robot created a kinematic model of itself and used it to “plan motion, ...

[Jochen Alt] is on a roll. We just covered his ball-balancing robot, Paul, only to find his phenomenal six-DOF robot arm in full retro style. Its name is “Walter” and it’s done up in DDR style (the ...

The BionicSoftHand should rotate a 12-sided cube so that a previously defined side points upward at the end. The human hand boasts a unique combination of power, dexterity, and fine motor skills. We ...

The design of a standard robot arm is, more or less, a mechanized representation of an idealized human arm, replete with elbow and wrist joints. Such designs tend to be unwieldy in confined spaces, ...

Introduction to EPFL's robotic arm and detachable hand. How the robotic hand was developed. How the hand can grasp and carry objects. Researchers at EPFL's (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) ...

Researchers examined the idea of using robotic arms for 3D food printing and what it would really take to automate kitchens.