He built a push-pull mechanism that uses braided fishing line to transfer motion to the robot arm’s wrist using Bowden ... [RoTechnic] used an Arduino-powered RAMPS board as a controller ...

Once it’s affixed to the robot arm, [Owen] wants to remote control ... [Owen] replaced the motor controller with an Arduino and added an I/O port. The latter is a 3.5 mm stereo audio jack ...

The researchers have adapted traditional Arduino boards ... might detect and report touch with other robots, as well as sense a user’s arm motions. “We hope this work will enable further ...