In essence, without robust flexible cables, collaborative robots (cobots) and smart factory equipment would suffer frequent downtimes and failures, as standard cables cannot survive the dynamic ...

SAB Bröckskes introduces a new control cable for robot drag chain applications to the market, engineered for use in paint robots, axis 7. The cable is designed for use in robots particularly in drag ...

EtherCAT’s deterministic, on-the-fly frame processing and flexible topologies make it a strong real-time Ethernet backbone for autonomous mobile robots.

Professor Bülthoff, there are three motion simulators in the Cyberneum. What is the nature of the general interest in this research? We want to better understand how people’s senses interact when they ...

At a research facility near Montpellier in southern France, a mock-up of a heavy airplane wing is carefully manouevred across a test centre by At a research facility near Montpellier in southern ...

Although fiber optic internet cable has many advantages over metal cable, it frequently has to be distributed underground – this limits its usability. Facebook, however, has developed a robot that ...

A pod constructed from carbon-fibre rods is suspended by eight stout steel cables that are anchored in the walls of a large hall and are equipped with powerful motors. This, along with modern computer ...

A robot with a pair of grippers on its arms can untangle long, knotted cables. The technology could be used to fit electrical cables in aircraft or offer household assistance to older people, but at ...