When the Armatron first came out, in 1981, robotics engineers started contacting Watanabe. “I wasn’t so much hearing from ...

Dexter, an open-source, high-precision, trainable robotic arm has ... can move the joints of the arm and record the motion for playback. The image here shows position data from one arm being ...

Thus the robot can be operated position, velocity and torque controlled ... As the required torque decreases over the length of the arm, three different types of the motor design are used (85, 70 and ...

At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route ... rover is the WATSON camera attached to the end of the rover's robotic arm. In the fine tradition of tortured acronyms at the space agency ...