it uses small motors and gearboxes to drive the wheels, with some of the gears being 3D printed. [Shane] has posted the full details of this cute little robot, complete with 3D models, code ...

So when a team of five students from UC Davis got together and built a machine that got the job done with two hooks, some very clever gears, and two motors, we have to say that we’re impressed.

move and follow electromagnetic commands like a remotely controlled robot, even though it lacks any motor or internal gears. "You can transform between a material and a robot, and it is ...

Until now, typical micro flying robots have used motors, gears and other complex transmission systems to achieve the up-and-down motion of the wings. This has added complexity, weight and ...

Hydraulic power gives it a lot more strength than the electric motors found in most other humanoid robots, but the trade-off is they're a bit more difficult to control. In turn, ATLAS is also ...

Robot. Death (or at least maiming) to the losers. The winner takes home a 20-pound trophy of a brass gear and claims championship ... an aluminum blind strip and a motor. They were graded over ...

IT WOBBLES like a jelly, but could make robots more flexible than ever before. Soft artificial muscles have been used to make a motor with only a few parts, and no gears, bearings or cogs.

But these won't be typical robots with gears and motors; they will instead be made of carefully designed chemical shells-within-shells, with receptors on their surface. Instead of software and ...

Engineers at Princeton University in New Jersey, USA, have developed strange new 'metabots' that can change shape, move and dance without motors or gears. Controlled entirely by magnetic fields ...

Five-year-old pool cleaning company Aiper is launching the Seagull Pro, which the company says is the world’s first quad-motor pool-cleaning robot. The flagship vacuum is a CES 2023 Innovation ...