He showed how the basic RC servo motor ... size Ultron robot swinging its arms around, someone could get hurt. Which led him to designing his own prototype Series Elastic Actuators using an ...

It may instead be achieved by electronics that measure current flow through the actuator coils with high precision thereby allowing a sensed torque to be inferred. This paper focuses on servo ...

A humanoid race exposed the measure of mechanical precision and patience required to develop two-legged robots. Plus, a look ...

Motors and their gears, the actuators ... handle both radial and axial loads. The servo as a whole is designed to fit neatly into the joints of the robot arm itself, and has external mounting ...

These robots go through their motions precisely and relentlessly, and anyone who gets in the way could be seriously injured. Robots with soft actuators that cannot harm humans, on the other hand, are ...

At less than 1.5 inches tall, the latest bipedal robot from Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering can navigate smaller spaces than any other two-legged robot in the world.

Despite major advancements in robotics and the huge potential it has to make our lives easier, robots are still mostly stuck in industrial settings. We have seen a few robots enter homes ...

"If a soft robot hit a person ... Previous versions of HSA soft actuators used common servo motors to twist the materials into extended and expanded states. But the researchers only achieved ...

Once the actuator is released, the resultant amplified boost propels the tiny robots upward, allowing it to maneuver over obstacles at roughly the same speed as the real bug. The movement ...