Cost Function Design: Needs to balance path length, safety, energy consumption, and dynamic feasibility (for instance, robotic arms need to avoid joint limits). Industrial case: An AGV (Automated ...

Dr. Lydia E. Kavraki’s list of accomplishments, accolades, and titles is almost too much to process—the computer scientist is currently the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and ...

More than 25 years after Northwestern Engineering researchers advanced the concept of collaborative robotics, or “cobots,” researchers in the Center for Robotics and Biosystems have designed ...

XI'AN, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- In a breakthrough for bio-inspired robotics, a team of Chinese engineers has designed a robot that flaps its wings and is capable of autonomous takeoff, much like a bird.

Athletes jumping off a diving board. A duck circling a pond. Planets rotating in space. What do all these things have in common? They—or at least, their robotic representations—are products of a ...

Abstract: While free-flying robots hold great promise in supporting NASA missions, we currently lack knowledge regarding how they can effectively be designed to collaborate with users and integrate ...

Based on a study of both hatchling sea turtles and "FlipperBot" -- a robot with flippers -- researchers have learned principles for how both robots and turtles move on granular surfaces such as sand.