Proprietary systems have traditionally dominated the control of three and four-axis wafer handling robots for in-vacuum and in-air wafer applications. As a result, these systems can be limited in ...

Automation technology suppliers are integrating robot kinematics directly into PLCs, simplifying programming, reducing costs, ...

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Built to measure the movement, location or displacement of an object along a linear or rotational path, position sensing in humanoid robots is needed to detect movement and convert it into signals ...

ARM Automation’s SplashBotix division has developed a compact, low-voltage submersible proportional valve intended for continuous underwater use in environments such as swimming pools and ocean water.

Lab faculty, staff and students engage in a range of advanced research and development activities. The vast majority of the Lab’s work involves the development of novel robotic control strategies and ...

While so far robots have predominantly been deployed individually, as teams, they can tackle a wider range of complex missions with remarkable speed and efficiency. For instance, they could help to ...

Homogeneous vector and plane, homogeneous transformation, position and orientation transformations, kinematics and inverse kinematic solutions of robot manipulators and mobile robots, Jacobian and ...