Actuators make robots leap and run and do backflips and lift 500-pound pipes (different robots, mind you, thank God). The electric car? That’s impressive as hell, but just the beginning.

Technology nowadays can really spur creativity and there's nothing you can't do with a 3D printer, CAAD and some skills. Like a surveillance military robot.

Learn how to make a solar-powered Autobot robot with this fun and educational DIY tutorial! 🤖☀️ Using basic electronics and creative crafting, build a transformer-style Autobot robot that ...

While Tesla will constantly promote ever more advanced versions of Optimus, the humanoid robot it's working on—at least ...

When I talk to roboticists, one scenario that keeps them up at night is the possibility of their robots making an unexpected movement and hurting someone. An industrial arm could accidentally wallop a ...

For example, to use a DC motor in a robot leg, one might expect to need a gearbox, a motor driver, plus an encoder for position sensing.

The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful.

Part 1: • One-Motor CVT Robot Arm #1 - Gearbox Last time, I started a project to build a robot arm which only has one main drive motor, and uses a series of clutches to drive three separate axees.

The old song tells us that the leg bone is connected to the hip bone, but how are we to know if the articulated cam can connect to the brushless motor?

The robot moves, but with a jerking motion, and keeps making unintended turns. The primary cause of this seems to be the wobbly rotors, which mean that the output torque fluctuates throughout the ...