Vertical gardens have emerged alongside the increase in urban density and land scarcity to reintegrate greenery in the built environment. Existing maintenance for vertical gardens is labour-intensive, time-consuming and is being increasingly compleme...
False ceilings are often utilised in residential and commercial spaces as a way to contain and conceal necessary but unattractive building infrastructure, including mechanical, electrical, and plumbing services. Concealing such elements has made it d...
More recently, artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content (AIGC) is fundamentally transforming multiple sectors, including materials discovery, healthcare, education, scientific research, and industrial manufacturing. As for the complexities and...
Socially assistive robots are widely deployed in interventions with children on the autism spectrum, exploiting the benefits of this technology in social behavior intervention plans, while reducing their autistic behavior. Furthermore, innovations in...
This paper focuses on the development of a novel climbing robot that is designed for autonomous maintenance of vertical gardens in urban environments. The robot, designed with a unique five-legged structure, is equipped with a range of electrical and...
The design of robots is highly dependent on their applications. For agricultural robots, terrain, weather, and crop diversity need to be considered, and work efficiency, cost, and reliability must be evaluated. These factors are important to determin...
This study examines the effect of a COVID-19 Officer Robot (COR) on passersby compliance and the effects of its minor design manipulations on human–robot interaction. A robotic application was developed to ensure participants entering a public buildi...
In this paper, a conceptual design of a Delta robot is developed by means of a mechatronic design methodology. A fully integrated conceptual design, clarifying the recurrence of the conceptual design process using black-box/white-box analysis, is pre...
This paper proposes a design methodology for a six-wheeled rover that adapt to different stairs and maintain its stability based on the robot’s parameters, the kinematics constraints, the maximum height, and the minimum length of the step requi...
Space robots are one of the most promising solutions for on-orbit servicing (OOS) duties like docking, berthing, refueling, re-pairing, upgrading, transporting, rescuing, and orbital trash disposal. Numerous enabling techniques and technological demo...
Robots are main elements in Industry 4.0. Research on the design optimization of robots has a great significance in manufacturing industries. There inevitably exist various uncertainties in robot design that have an important influence on the reliabi...
Hexapod walking robots have been widely addressed in the literature with a very large number of design and engineering solutions. However, specific design approaches and solutions are needed to cope with specific novel applications. This paper aims t...
This work presents the solutions adopted for the design and the implementation of an autonomous wheeled robot developed for the exploration and mapping of air ventilation ducts. The hardware is based on commercial off-the-shelf devices, including sen...
This article presents the design, simulation, and experimental validation of a novel modular aquatic snake robot capable of surface locomotion. The modular structure allows each unit to function independently, facilitating ease of maintenance and ada...
The number of individuals with upper or lower extremities dysfunction (ULED) has considerably increased in the past few decades, resulting in a high economic burden for their families and society. Individuals with ULEDs require assistive robots to fu...
The development of functional legged robots has encountered its limits in human-made actuation technology. This paper describes research on the biomimetic design of legs for agile quadrupeds. A biomimetic leg concept that extracts key principles from...
This paper presents the design, development, and experimental evaluation of a hybrid wheel–leg guide robot intended to assist blind and elderly people with mobility tasks indoors and outdoors. The design requirements are derived from an analysi...
Complex and unknown areas in deep space exploration present major challenges to the motion ability of current space robots. Different from the traditional single-mode motion space robot, a compound motion robot with flexible movement and strong obsta...
This paper presents the computational design, fabrication, and control of a novel 3-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) soft parallel robot. The design is inspired by a delta robot structure. It is engineered to overcome the limitations of traditional soft seri...
Redundancy resolution techniques have been widely used for the control of kinematically redundant robots. In this work, one of the redundancy resolution techniques is employed in the mechanical design optimization of a robot arm. Although the robot a...
This paper carried out a series of designs, simulations and implementations by using the physical-like mechanism of a bionic quadruped robot dog as a vehicle. Through an investigation of the walking mechanisms of quadrupeds, a bionic structure is pro...
The current building industry is facing challenges of labor shortages and labor-intensive practices. Effectively collaborating with robots will be crucial for industry upgrading. This research introduces a MR iterative design and robot-assisted const...
The article aims to describe stages of development of a mobile, anthropomorphic robot. The individual phases of the bio-inspired model-based design of a two-legged robot are described, from the analysis of human walking patterns, through the creation...
Aiming at the disadvantages of traditional manual docking, such as low assembly efficiency and large positioning error, a six-DOF dual-arm robot system for module docking is designed. Firstly, according to the operation tasks of the cabin docking rob...
This article presents the design process of a supernumerary wearable robotic forearm (WRF), along with methods for stabilizing the robot’s end-effector using human motion prediction. The device acts as a lightweight “third arm” for the user, extendin...
Developing different robotic platforms for farm operations is vital to addressing the increasing world population. A harvesting robot significantly increases a farm’s productivity while farmers focus on other relevant farm operations. From the...
We introduce Pepita, a caricatured huggable robot capable of sensing and conveying affective expressions by means of tangible gesture recognition and projected avatars. This study covers the design criteria, implementation and performance evaluation...
(1) Background: Social robot interaction design is crucial for determining user acceptance and experience. However, few studies have systematically discussed the current focus and future research directions of social robot interaction design from a b...
This paper presents an application of Hierarchical Systems (HS) technology in conceptual and detailed design of Brain Computer Interface (BCI) system to control a mobile robot. The BCI is a biomechatronic system that includes biological (brain), comp...
It is challenging for robots to improve their ability to pass through unstructured environments while maximizing motion performance in cities and factories. This paper presents an omnidirectional deformable wheeled robot based on a heterogeneous sens...
While the concept of humanoid robots stems from the goal of replicating human movement, these systems have yet to match the elegance and efficiency of human locomotion. A key reason for this gap is that current humanoid robots differ from humans in t...
This paper develops a new vision-based robot customized for table tennis juggling tasks. Specifically, the robot is equipped with two industrial cameras operating as a sensing system. An image-processing algorithm is proposed that allows the robot to...
This paper presents the development of the JET humanoid robot, which is based on the existing THORMANG platform developed in 2015. Application in the industrial and service fields was targeted, and three design concepts were determined for the humano...
This study outlines the design and evaluation of a biomimetic robotic hand tailored for Human–Robot Interaction (HRI), focusing on improvements in tactile fidelity driven by material choice. Thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) was selected over po...
Due to their high kinematic characteristics, six-bar tensegrities have great potential application value in the field of robotics, especially in the field of deep space exploration robots. In this paper, an ultralight six-bar tensegrity robot is desi...
Traditional manual assembly is limited in terms of both efficiency and quality. In contrast, robots are characterized by rapidness and accuracy and can cooperate with humans to perform complex tasks. Human–robot collaboration may hold the poten...
In this paper we present a wheeled robot platform for child-parent robot collaboration. The new robot, named Big STAR (BSTAR), is fitted with a tail that can act as a ramp to carry and deploy a child RSTAR that can crawl between small cracks and unde...
The grabbing of phosphorite rocks is an important process in the mining industry. Traditional grabbing technology based on rigid robots faces challenges such as heavy weight, low flexibility, and insufficient safety. This study presents the structura...
Robots designed for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have demonstrated potential in promoting social engagement and emotional learning. This study presents the design and preliminary evaluation of JARI, a social robot developed to support...
To conduct a comfortable lift for the care-receiver, it takes a lot of time and operations to design the motion trajectory for each care-receiver before transfer tasks. To solve this problem, this paper proposed a method to design a lift trajectory f...
Tele-examination based on robotic technologies is a promising solution to solve the current worsening shortage of physicians. Echocardiography is among the examinations that would benefit more from robotic solutions. However, most of the state-of-the...
Patient transfer has always been a difficult problem in the hospital. For medical staff, there are problems including high risk of infection, heavy physical labor and low efficiency of transfer; for patients, there are problems including poor comfort...
In this paper, we propose a method to efficiently design joint motors, which are the key elements that drive a cooperative robot. Designing joint motors with more power than the required capacity increases the volume and weight of the robot. On the o...
The urgent need for complex terrain adaptability in industrial automation and disaster relief has highlighted the great potential of octopedal wheel-legged robots. However, their design complexity and motion control challenges must be addressed. In t...
Developing guidelines for designing robot-inclusive spaces has been challenging and resource-intensive, primarily relying on physical experiments and observations of robot interactions within the built environment. These conventional methods are ofte...
The better application of crawl robots depends on their ability to adapt to unstructured environments with significant variations in their structural shape and size. This paper presents the design and analysis of a novel robot with different locomoti...
The process of agricultural robot design is a complex system requiring the cooperation and integration of agricultural, machinery, automation, and information technology. These demands create great challenges for the innovative design of agricultural...
In metal sheet processing for automotive application, it is crucial to guarantee high robot dynamics for reduced cycle times and adequate components accuracy to be competitive in the market. Since the two aspects are closely and inversely related, th...
The current study investigated the geometry optimization of a hybrid-driven (based on the combination of air pressure and tendon tension) soft robot for use in robot-assisted intra-bronchial intervention. Soft robots, made from compliant materials, h...
The operational effectiveness of a railroad track robot that is designed for railcar undercarriage inspection is provided. Beyond describing the robot’s design details and onboard imaging system, the paper analyzes the recorded video images and...
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