Category: Robotics
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Academic and industry center to solve digital twin challenges for manufacturing
Digital twins could make manufacturing more efficient with early defect detection, just-in-time maintenance and personalized worker assistance.
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Knee exoskeletons to relieve arthritis pain, preserve mobility
Extending a motorized brace approach to take the load off arthritic knees, a U-M research team shifts from boosting strength to reducing joint contact forces.
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Robots and AI to help shipbuilding stay on track
American and Japanese researchers will develop robots and AI to help shipbuilders pivot when the built ship deviates from the planned design.
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Robotics, advanced manufacturing and national security: Q&A with Chinedum Okwudire
University of Michigan Engineering’s Okwudire and Dawn Tilbury are providing expertise for a new Special Competitive Studies Project commission.
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Open-source, modular robot for understanding evolution
A cost-effective, customizable quadruped could help researchers discover the particular advantages related to the length and segmentation of animal limbs.
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World’s smallest programmable robots perform tasks
Microscale swimming bots developed by U-M and Penn take in sensory information, process it and carry out tasks, opening new possibilities in manufacturing and medicine.
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Robotic systems for advanced manufacturing applications
The core of robotic manufacturing is flexibility, adaptability and efficiency.
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A common language to describe and assess human-agent teams
Using a new taxonomy, an analysis of testbeds that simulate human and autonomous agent teams finds a need for more complex testbeds to mimic real-world scenarios.
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Expanding a commercial robotic prosthetic leg’s benefits with advanced control
Paired with custom control software, Össur’s powered knee prosthesis helped study participants sit, stand and walk more easily.
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Simulated humanoid robots learn to hike rugged terrain autonomously
Now able to learn locomotion and navigation together, robots develop balanced gaits and safe routes.
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Digital twins for manufacturing: industry collaborators wanted
Focusing on precompetitive problems, such as enabling communication between digital twins, U-M and ASU are seeking industry partners for an NSF research center.
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Leadership in networked and logic control systems
NAE profile: Dawn M. Tilbury, robotics