For the vacuum cleaner, we could use wheel encoders to measure how far the robot has moved, as well as optical flow sensors to provide additional motion information for comparison and calibration.

Amir Hooshiar, 2018 Concordia Public Scholar and Director of the Surgical Robotics Centre in the Department of Surgery at McGill University, is collaborating with Tannaz Torkaman, Majid Roshanfar, and ...

A team of roboticists at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is preparing Atlas, a 6-foot-2-inch-tall, 330-pound humanoid robot that can climb stairs, open doors, and ...

A swarm of 100 robots took a trip down the Sacramento River yesterday in a field test organized by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley.

Another step toward more lovable robots: a new type of sensor might enable us to poke a robot as if it had the squishy belly button of the Pillsbury Dough boy.

Open-source robot project Qbo has gained a new set of sensors, in the shape of a custom ASUS Xtion tiara that allows the 'bot to 3D map his environment, autonomously navigate and – most ...

Robots these days, especially humanoids, have one problem: it doesn’t feel nice or lifelike when you touch them. This is where an invention by Japanese robot startup Touchence comes in. Their so ...

Pipe inspection using guided acoustic wave sensors integrated with mobile robots. NDT & E International , 2023; 139: 102929 DOI: 10.1016/j.ndteint.2023.102929 Cite This Page : ...

UC Berkeley Tests Floating Robot Sensors to Track Water Flow, Environmental Concerns. By Kerry Davis. May 9, 2012 8:10 pm PDT. It’s been a couple of years and a couple of million dollars.

Robot subs and seals with sensors to help ambitious Antarctic mission A Royal Research Ship, the RRS James Clark Ross, leaves the Rothera research station in Antarctica in January 1998. Pete ...

Finally, researchers and graduate students who have spent years developing intelligent water sensors released them into the Sacramento River on Wednesday, about 80 miles east of San Francisco. Topics ...