One of the most basic problems with robotic arms and similar systems is keeping the weight down, as more weight requires a ...

Cable-driven ... or parallel to make much more complicated structures. To demonstrate, the researchers designed a gripping tentacle, a bird’s claw, and a lizard-like walking robot, but much ...

Cable cars are certainly handy for transporting cargo up steep mountain slopes, but what if you want to do the same sort of ...

A team of engineers from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University (NC State) ...

The team demonstrated that the soft ring robot could travel along tracks as thin as a human hair, or as thick as a straw.

Making use of machine learning to analyze canine motion, researchers from TU Delft and EPFL designed a system of springs, cables ... bioinspired robotics use compliance-driven designs to mimic ...

Engineers reveal a soft ring robot powered by infrared light that can climb a wire like a cable car but without any wheels.