Abstract: Recent years have seen a surge in service robots built on the ROS framework, where effective path planning algorithms are crucial for their successful operation. However, real-world ...

Humanoid robots capture the public imagination, and investors are backing them. That means a lot of reports will be incoming, propelled by marketing bucks. A good time to present the facts, minus the ...

There's a fluffy robot, about the size of a guinea pig, sitting on my couch, and it's squeaking. My friend's dog Wylie sits watching it, suspicious of its every move. Moflin is an AI companion robot ...

Abstract: Wire-driven robots have wide applications. The structure of the driver is simple but bulky, with too many motors and no tensioning mechanism. A driver for a dual-wire coaxial wire-driven ...

In a Tesla earnings call Wednesday, the world’s richest man pondered the future of his company’s Optimus robots—and his control over them. Musk has also made it clear that he wants to get paid, a lot.