According to Celera Motion, every design is open-source and consists of a fully customizable and fully documented Altium project.
Harmonic Drive launches HPF series of hollow shaft gear units
The HPF hollow shaft gear unit series from Harmonic Drive is suitable for a range of industrial applications, including robotics.
Celera Motion launches the company’s most compact servo drives
The Denali Series by Celera Motion are compact, ultra-fast servo drives created for a variety of service robots, surgical robots, and more.
Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid work at a ‘construction site’
With a new routine where Atlas assists at a simulated job site, Boston Dynamics engineers have pushed the humanoid one step closer to performing real-world manipulation tasks at human speed.
How motion engineering helps develop next-gen surgical robots
The single-column, multiple-arm design of conventional surgical robots limits the angle of approach when multiple instruments are deployed. This is the main challenge that needs to be overcome.
Webinar: motion control in logistics robotics made easy
Mobile robotics is a high-growth market both in and outside the logistics sector. This webinar will teach you how Novanta simplifies the application development process.
How Dusty Robotics used a refrigerator to diagnose & fix a hardware bug
Even a simple robot like FieldPrinter has hundreds of components, each of which can have unpredictable failure modes.
NVIDIA teaches dexterity to a robot hand
NVIDIA used its Isaac Gym RL robotics simulator to train an Allegro Hand, a lightweight, anthropomorphic robotic hand.
Stereolabs launches ZED-X cameras for indoor, outdoor robots
With new SDK and multi-camera control, Stereolabs launched deployment-ready 3D perception hardware and software.
LEMO launches single pair ethernet 1000BASE–T1
1000Base-T1 is designed to operate over a single twisted-pair copper cable supporting an effective data rate of 1 Gbit/sec in each direction simultaneously.
Nidec to acquire Italian tool maker PAMA
Nidec, the Japanese electric motor maker, announced that it acquired PAMA, an Italian machine tool manufacturer.
Micropsi control software now compatible with FANUC robots
MIRAI controller generates robot movements directly and in real time through human demonstration.
Robotics Engineering Week to address critical development issues
Robotics Engineering Week’s sessions are focused on critical topics for robotics and automation professionals.
Celera Motion introduces Everest S servo drive
Everest S is about 30% smaller than its predecessor, includes Dual-BISS-C feedback support and is designed for surgical robots, exoskeletons and other robots.
Clearpath Robotics launches outdoor autonomy software
Clearpath Robotics’ new OutdoorNav technology provides GPS-based navigation for Clearpath’s outdoor mobile robots and third-party vehicles.
Realtime Robotics raises $14.4M for motion planning software
RapidPlan software creates and choreographs robot movements without the need for brand-specific robot programming.
Nikon adds 2 actuators to C3 eMotion lineup
Nikon announced the expansion of its C3 eMotion intelligent actuator unit lineup with the IAU-30 and IAU-300 types.
What’s the difference between a servo drive and motion controller?
There can be a fine line between what is considered a motion controller and what represents a basic servo drive. It is critical to understand the functionality and intelligence of both.
Realtime Robotics releases RapidPlan software
Realtime Robotics’s software streamlines production of complex cells with offline programming that synchronizes to live operations.
Celera Motion expands Omni+ direct drive motor platform
Offering a combination of motion smoothness and torque density, the direct drive motors are designed for cobots, surgical robots and more.
ROS 2 driver now available for UR cobot arms
Developed by Universal Robots, PickNik Robotics and FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, the driver is compatible across the entire line of UR cobots.
MIT CSAIL develops soft, pneumatic actuator
Soft, pneumatic actuators can provide high response rates and power to input ratios, but creating them can be tedious.