Superminiature robots, called nanorobots, might find all sorts of exotic applications. Roboticist Eric Drexler has suggested that such machines might serve as programmable antibodies, searching...

Researchers are always striving to get more “computer power” into less physical space. This means superminiaturization of electronic components. This is especially important to the...

A motor converts electrical or chemical energy into mechanical energy.Electric motors are commonly used in robots. They can operate from alternating current (AC) or direct...

Whenever new technologies are developed, military experts look for ways in which the devices and systems can be used in warfare. Military robots have received...

Microwave data transmission refers to the sending and receiving of wireless data at extremely high radio frequencies. Microwaves are very short electromagnetic waves, but they...

Metric path planning is a scheme of robotic navigation in which the machine  attempts to find the optimum path between two points. This generally requires a...

Medical science has become one of the largest industries in the civilized world. There are many possible ways in which robots might be used in...

A mechatronics engineer unites the principles of mechanics, electronics, and computing to generate a simpler, more economical and reliable system. The term “mechatronics” was coined...

A computer does not work with words, or even with familiar base-10 numbers. Instead, the machine uses combinations of ones and zeros. These are the...

When mapping an image for use in a robotic vision system, it sometimes helps to transform the image from one type of coordinate system to...