An innovative new automatic cell for manufacturing tubular automotive parts exploits an articulated robotic arm to manage intervening movements and transfers. The arm eliminates the need for the ...

For 90-degree and acute bends, Smith suggested sequencing bends from the outer most bend line inward toward the center. For ...

The bending of pipe and metal plates into useful shapes is increasingly automated by robotics. Recall that just a few years ago, Kuka Robotics Corp., The bending of pipe and metal plates into useful ...

With its ability to change shape instantly, this Matryoshka doll-inspired robot is more than a clever design—it may be the ...

A kirigami-skinned soft robot powered by pneumatic muscles achieves crawling, steering and obstacle avoidance, advancing ...

Picture a robot controlled by micromotors so small and light that it suspends itself over water like a bug. With engineers at ...

Pipe bending machines make short work of twisting and shaping metal tubes into everything from car exhausts to trombones. Yoshihito Isogawa’s pipe cleaner bending robot works essentially the same way, ...

In limbless animals, propulsion across flat terrain depends on three synergistic elements—a highly deformable soft body, rhythmic axial contractions ...