Design engineers tasked with custom robot development must often piece together scores of individual components. Nowhere is this more complicated than for the joints that allow humanoid robots and ...

Harvard SEAS researchers have developed a mathematical framework for optimizing the design of rolling contact joints, which are made of rolling surfaces and flexible connectors. To demonstrate their ...

Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) has released the EPC91122, a 3-phase BLDC motor drive inverter evaluation board engineered ...

Texas Instruments is developing GaN power devices to enable more compact and efficient motor joints for humanoid robots.

Melexis has cone up with Arcminaxis – a magnetic technology for affordable, high-precision position sensing in robotic joints. The MLX90384, the first product incorporating Arcminaxis, reduces the ...

A California-based company has introduced a robotic hand that can perform multiple tasks. Named Aero Hand Open, the TetherIA’s open-source, underactuated robotic hand is meant to solve the robotic ...

An implant is placed into each of the two bones of the forearm—the ulna and radius—and then a wrist-like artificial joint acts as an interface between these two implants and the prosthetic hand. There ...

[Tim] needed very small, motorized joints for a robot. Unable to find anything to fit the bill, he designed his own tiny, robotic joints. Not only are these articulated and motorized, they are ...

[John Lauer] has been hard at work re-thinking robot arms. His project to create modular, open source actuators that can be connected to one another to form an arm is inspiring, and boasts an ...

The design of a standard robot arm is, more or less, a mechanized representation of an idealized human arm, replete with elbow and wrist joints. Such designs tend to be unwieldy in confined spaces, ...

Valkyrie, a humanoid robot that was previously trained to assist NASA with Mars mission preparations, will soon return to the ...