Researchers at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a robot capable of identifying materials, thanks to a tactile sensor. The so-called BioTac sensor mimics the human finger ...

and direction of the flow of salt walter and freshwater through the river. Called the Floating Sensor Network project, the robots provide a network of sensors that "can be deployed rapidly to ...

Now comes another step toward more lovable (or at least soft) 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.

With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...

The team is working on artificial “flow sensors” that can be added to robots, creating bendable systems that vibrate in the wind. Receptors at the base of the whisker can then be read and ...

BigDog is a four-legged, three feet tall and three feet long, 240 pound dog-like robot (Image ... from these sensors to provide estimates of how BigDog is moving in space. Other sensors monitor BigDog ...

This would allow the microbots to be self-powered using tiny photodiodes to feed sips of electricity to the robot's computer, sensors, and memory circuits. The idea is that the microbots would ...

The knees of this robot are actuated using a pair of motors with ball screws, which are not back drivable. This means that external sensors are needed to allow the motors to actively respond to ...

This is where an invention by Japanese robot startup Touchence comes in. Their so-called ShokacCube, made of polyurethane, is the world’s first soft touch sensor specifically designed for robots.

Each ADAR sensor offers a 180×180° field of view, allowing autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to safely navigate around people and objects. The beamforming technology behind ADAR—used in SONAR, RADAR, ...

Guided acoustic wave sensors have helped detect and localise multiple defects on a three-metre-long steel pipe inspected by mobile robots. Led by Professor Bruce ... required inspections without ...