Imagine an oversized claw machine at an arcade, but instead of trying to grab cheap toys, your prize is the assortment of waste that sinks to the bottom of the sea. That's essentially what an ...

Abstract: A vacuum lifter is widely used to hold and pick up large, heavy, and flat objects. Conventionally, when using a vacuum lifter, a human worker watches the state of a running vacuum lifter and ...

A new rootin' tootin' cowboy is taking on Texas, but he's more interested in dishing out heavy-handed compliments than he's apt to ride a horse through the Wild West. Videos of a child-sized, ...

Autonomous delivery robots are already starting to change the way goods move around cities and warehouses, but most still need humans to load and unload their cargo. That’s where LEVA comes in.

When the robot G1 or H1 picks up an object the object puts force on the robot which causes the robot to move in that direction. In order to compensate for this we want to measure how much tilt the ...

In this 3 minutes long one-take video, our CL-1 takes on the challenge of continuous heavy objects loading among shelves in a simulated warehouse, showcasing the advantages of the general-purpose form ...

Turf Tank, a robotic field painter, is being used by schools and parks in the Peoria area. The robot, which costs around $60,000 to purchase or $11,000-$16,000 to lease annually, significantly reduces ...

Caption:MIT researchers developed a hopping robot that can leap over tall obstacles and jump across slanted or uneven surfaces, while using far less energy than an aerial robot. Credit: Melanie Gonick ...

PROVO — Although the world might not ever have super soldiers like Captain America, engineers at BYU are building robots that could rival Steve Rogers' strength. But strength isn't the only aim of ...

PROVO, Utah (KSTU) — For BYU graduate student Curtis Johnson, a simple quest guided him to create a robot with a novel approach: What if robots were more helpful? Johnson and his mentors at the BYU ...