How Robots Sense the World: A Guide to Robot Sensors
Learn how robots perceive their surroundings with cameras, lidar, touch, and motion sensors, and how sensor fusion turns raw data into awareness.
How robots work — from industrial arms and drones to humanoids and home robots.
Learn how robots perceive their surroundings with cameras, lidar, touch, and motion sensors, and how sensor fusion turns raw data into awareness.
A plain-English guide to ROS, the Robot Operating System: what it is, how nodes and topics work, and why so many robots run on it.
A plain-English guide to how quadcopter drones fly, covering motors, propellers, flight controllers, sensors, GPS and radio control.
A clear guide to the six main types of industrial robots — articulated, SCARA, delta, cartesian, cylindrical, and polar — and the jobs each does best.
Soft robotics swaps rigid metal for flexible materials. Learn how squishy robots work, why they matter and where they are already being used.