Foundational Concepts in Programming Industrial Robots. Before you can get a robot to do anything useful, you need to understand how it works and the math behind its movements. It ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

A career in robotics is one of the most coveted things for those interested in engineering and automation. Presently, there is an explosion in the number of companies seeking innovative robotics ...

Robotics is entering a new phase where general-purpose learning matters as much as mechanical design. Instead of programming every behavior ...

Robots have long excelled at repetitive factory work welding, picking, placing, and packaging yet they’ve struggled with the messy, flexible, unpredictable tasks that dominate daily life. Folding a ...

In Professor Ioannis Poulakakis’ lab at the University of Delaware, a human-sized robot is almost ready to play its role in engineering a better future. The robot, which walks on two legs and looks ...

In this article, I’m going to show how to use a Python robot framework to develop control software, describe the control scheme I developed for my simulated robot, illustrate how it interacts with its ...