If you see what looks like a hamster ball rolling around a cornfield, it doesn’t mean that someone’s pet is incredibly lost. It may be an experimental robot developed by the Robotics and Cybernetics ...

Can a robot be a better waiter than a human being? To answer this question, Dr. Luis Figueredo, senior scientist in the team of Prof. Sami Haddadin, sets up a robotic arm from the specialized robot ...

A PENDULUM which is free to swing over a segment of a sphere has possible paths which vary from a rotation resembling an engine governor ball to the swing of a simple pendulum in a plane; which plane ...

A spherical roving robot designed to detect and report intruders has been developed by a Swedish start-up company. The design was first developed with planetary exploration in mind, at the Ångström ...

Keywords: Quintuple Friction Pendulum Isolator, Spherical Sliding Isolator, Multi-stage Adaptive Behavior, Analytical Model, Computational Model Abstract: This report describes the Quintuple Friction ...

Researchers at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine intelligence (MIRMI) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a model that enables a robot to serve tea and coffee faster ...