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🔍 It's Midweek Mystery time at the International STEM & Robotics Championship! Can you unravel this enigma: What's the SI unit of electric current? Let's electrify our minds and share your answers below! #STEM #ScienceTrivia #MidweekMystery #ISRC

🔍 It's Midweek Mystery time at the International STEM & Robotics Championship! Can you unravel this enigma: What's the SI unit of electric current? Let's electrify our minds and share your answers below! #STEM #ScienceTrivia #MidweekMystery #ISRC

📌 SAVE the DATE – qbrobotics attends ICRA 2024 📣 📍From May 13th to 17th, 2024 in PACIFICO Yokohama, Japan, the 2024 edition of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024). 👉🏻 Visit the booth IC140 and discover the soft robotics inspired by human body. You will discover more qbroborics devices at Franka Robotics booth (IC050)! #ICRA2024 #qbrobotics #softrobotics #softhand2 #research #softhandresearch

This "personal appeal" of humanoid robots has sparked increased interest in developing humanoid robots for diverse applications, such as healthcare, customer service, education, and even space exploration - where human characteristics such as empathy, decision-making making, and personality are deemed valuable. This article provides insights into four of the leading humanoid robot projects from around the world. Check out the full article in collaboration with Mouser Electronics here: https://lnkd.in/ec4aWnYY

🌐 Excited to share this new research on bio-inspired soft robotic systems! The blog post provides quantitative insights into the design of bio-inspired soft slender manipulators using the concept of reachability clouds. The study integrates extreme mechanics and soft robotics to generate an atlas of 256 reachability clouds, offering powerful metrics to characterize reachable volumes and actuator redundancy. Check out the full article here: https://bit.ly/4cxAA6n #SoftRobotics #BioInspiredDesign #NewResearch

🚀 Exciting News! I am honoured to be one of the keynote speakers at the 40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA@40) in Rotterdam later this month. ⏳ I’ll be speaking in the last session of the last day and have only 10 minutes to share insights and inspire. With such a brief window to engage, I’m reaching out to you: 🤖 What key topics in continuum robotics would you be most excited to hear about? After almost 15 years of research in this field, which of our research results did you find most exciting? Let me know in the comments below what you think I should cover! #ICRA40 #Robotics #Keynote

Updates from Swiss Robotics Day! Relive the highlights of innovation in robotics from Swiss Robotics Day 2023 and mark your calendar for the upcoming session on November 1st, 2024! EPFL Robotics, #swissroboticsday #Innovation

In response to the rising number of wheelchair users, our study focuses on optimizing wheelchair-mounted assistive robots for essential activities of daily living (ADLs). Using advanced genetic algorithms, we've fine-tuned robots with 5, 6, and 7 degrees of freedom (DoFs) to cover key ADL workspaces while ensuring singularity and collision avoidance. Excitingly, our optimized designs show significant coverage improvements, offering tailored support where it's needed most. Dive into the full findings here: https://lnkd.in/eJ6Gpexr #AssistiveTechnology #Robotics #Research"

Which inertia do you have to use to predict the outcome of an impact for a torque-controlled robot with flexible joints? The answer to this question has implications for impact-aware robot control as well as safety in physical human-robot interaction (pHRI). I started looking at this problem with Vincent Padois at UPMC in Paris in 2017 (now he is at INRIA Bordeaux). We've managed to experimentally validate that fully rigid robot models combined with nonsmooth impact laws provide useful prediction, as long as you correct the motor inertia with the torque-control gains. This work was was conducted in collaboration with Franka Emika (now Franka Robotics) in the context of the I.AM. H2020 Project . The work has been just published in IEEE R-AL. You can find the link below. #robotics #impactawarerobotics #tueindhoven #eindhoven

Highlighting Innovative Mobile Robot Design at Robotrix Hackathon I'm excited to share our team's project from the recent IEEE NITK Robotrix hackathon! We tackled the challenge of programming a mobile robot that navigates autonomously through checkpoints while balancing a red ball on an integrated Stewart Platform. The Stewart Platform is a fascinating mechanism in mobile robotics. Its unique design allows for 6 degrees of freedom (DoF) movement, enabling precise control of a platform's position and orientation. This opens doors for novel applications in various fields. Our approach involved integrating a Stewart Platform with a differential drive robot. This fusion presented a unique challenge: deriving the inverse kinematics to control the Stewart Platform's actuators. We successfully addressed this by implementing a PID control system for point-to-point navigation, ensuring the robot's autonomous maneuvering with maximized accuracy. #Robotrix #IEEE #MobileRobots #StewartPlatform #Hackathon