To make a robotic arm as slender as possible, the actuators can’t be mounted on the arm itself but must instead drive the arm remotely. There are a number of ways of doing this, and though [Gear ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. One man, one robotic arm, dozens of electrodes—these are the elements of a breakthrough experiment that’s ...

We all might dream of having an industrial robot arm at our disposal, complete with working controller that doesn’t need constant maintenance and replacement parts, and which is able to help us ...

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a unique way to teach general-purpose robots new ...

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"I'll use the robot arm to clean the table surface," the robot ... the experiment is a "proof-of-concept for a robot control ...

Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, announced on Tuesday that it is launching a study to test its implant for a new use: allowing a person to control a robotic arm using just their ...

Their method involves aligning data from varied domains, like simulations and real robots, and multiple modalities, including ...

A fresh call for (human) guinea pigs has been launched. Neuralink's next project seeks to enable patients to control a robotic arm simply by the power of their thoughts. This innovation follows on ...