One of the more fascinating sights of an autumn evening is the flocking behaviour of starlings as they lurch and swoop in extraordinary demonstrations of aerodynamic synchronisation. It turns out that ...

Robot programming is many students' first exposure to the world of computer programming. As with so much of the computing world, however, different robot platforms are generally incompatible.

PaR-PaR, a simple high-level, biology-friendly, robot-programming language uses an object-oriented approach to make it easier to integrate robotic equipment into biological laboratories. Effective ...

Teaching a robot a new trick is a challenge. You can't reward it with treats and it doesn't respond to approval or disappointment in your voice. For researchers in the biological sciences, however, ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

Kids, and Hackaday editors, love robots! The Open Roberta project (OR) takes advantage of this to teach kids about programming. And while the main focus is building a robot programming language that ...

STÄUBLI TEC-SYSTEMS is launching the uniVAL pi software that will allow robot programming to be implemented via the PLC, using Plug & Play in Siemens TIA Portal. Thanks to this optionally available ...

Cozmo was supposed to be the new face of robotics for Anki, previously known for its collection of connected toy cars. After Cozmo’s launch last October, the company offered SDKs for research groups ...

Intended for use with handling and assembly automation applications, the CS8 and compact CS8M robot controllers offer a new operating system, as well as VAL3, a new generation robot programming ...

In this article, I’m going to show how to use a Python robot framework to develop control software, describe the control scheme I developed for my simulated robot, illustrate how it interacts with its ...