The rapid proliferation of robots and electronic devices is placing the world under a new and growing environmental burden.

Global electronic waste reached approximately 62 million metric tons in 2022, with soft robots—widely ...

National Instruments’ LabVIEW has been used with robots for decades. It mostly has been employed by developers looking to take advantage of graphical programming tools (see “LabVIEW: Graphical ...

Engineers in Australia have developed a small robot designed to help clean up oil spills more safely and efficiently. The ...

Minimal-actuator robotic bicycle demonstrates high-speed mobility and obstacle-jumping using advanced control electronics.

WHAT is twice as fun as a motor? Two motors. Last week, we learned how to meet their power-hungry needs. Now, we can double up – and because the micro:bit can control them, we can make a robot that ...

Forward-looking: As devices become obsolete at an alarming rate, the issue of electronic waste has become increasingly pressing. A project has emerged combining measurement and robot technology with ...

YOU have battled batteries, mastered motors and conquered coding. Now, far from the humble reading light you made in week 2, you should be able to build an autonomous line-following robot to bring the ...

I remember when I was a young lad making simple robots using household items such as motors from vacuum cleaners (sorry mom). Robotic vision? Computerized control systems? Don't make me laugh! How ...

A developer who writes all the software would need expertise in real-time programming, motor control, AI, maybe some image and video processing, and so on. Fortunately, platforms like ROS (Robot ...