Orbital Robotics reaches out with a plan to build robotic arms that use AI

Orbital Robotics, a space startup founded by Blue Origin veterans, is recruiting partners in its quest to build AI-powered ...
Michigan Technological University

Gamifying Neuroscience: Michigan Tech Researchers Turn Motor Control Into Play

Inside Michigan Tech's Aging, Cognition and Action Lab, space debris rains down on a screen as players scramble to deflect it ...
ZME Science

World’s Smallest Programmable Robot Fits on a Fingerprint Ridge and Carries Its Own Computer

Measuring just 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers — smaller than a grain of salt and roughly the size of a single-celled paramecium ...
Becker's Spine Review

Palm Beach Orthopaedic Institute adds Mako shoulder robot

Brian Hill, MD, debuted the Mako shoulder robot at West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Palm Beach Orthopaedic Institute, according to a Jan. 13 news release. Stryker’s Mako shoulder is designed for shoulder ...
IEEE

Multi-Sensor Fusion for Quadruped Robot State Estimation Using Invariant Filtering and Smoothing

Abstract: This letter introduces two multi-sensor state estimation frameworks for quadruped robots, built on the Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (InEKF) and Invariant Smoother (IS). The proposed ...
IEEE

Design and Tracking Control of a Robot Arm for Climbing the Outer Wall of a Pipeline

Abstract: Owing to the confined spatial constraints on the exterior of oil pipelines, the capability of a wall-climbing robot to inspect the welds is impeded by its lack of rotational mobility. To ...