Rodney Brooks, a renowned roboticist who co-founded iRobot and is a former MIT researcher, has warned that current investments in humanoid robots are based on flawed assumptions and may not be ...

Abstract: This article presents the mechanical design of Otto, a lightweight 8-degrees-of-freedom (8-DoF) quadrupedal robot employing series elastic actuators, and a training framework for learning ...

After four years of hype, Optimus shows some progress, yet the humanoid struggles to prove it's worth beyond staged demos.

Abstract: Resource failures can be encountered in a practical automated manufacturing system (AMS), and thus, its robust supervisory control is an important issue to be addressed. This work uses Petri ...