Robotics

The merge of numerical control and remote manipulation created a new field of engineering, and with it a number of scientific issues in design and control which are substantially different from those of the original […]

So, you are interested in robotics and want to get a job working with them…Robotics is a huge field spanning areas such as Electronics, Mechanics, Software engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Psychology and Biology.   Testing of […]

If you observe an ant colony you will notice that there is no single or group of ants organising proceedings. However, ants are able to build relatively large complex structures and forage for food in […]

Artificial Intelligence, or A.I., refers to machines with intelligent properties, such as reasoning, planning and learning. The term was introduced in 1956 by John McCarthy, a leader in the field, who along with others helped […]

  Robots are unlikely to take over the world, but just in case they do, better have a killer playlist ready!   The Robots by Kraftwerk The Robots (originally Die Roboter) is a single by […]

  2016 has been a tough year for robots everywhere. But with every fall a lesson is learned. Let’s relive some of those lessons here…     Robots, Don’t Drink and Drive!       […]

Space is a hostile environment. There is no air and, with little or no atmosphere for protection, everything gets very hot when the sun shines and very cold when it doesn’t. Robots can handle these […]

A computer is the brain of every robot, it is the logic engine and ultimately the controller. The computer is the second of the required three components that a robot must have, the other two […]