BIOMOD: Road to Molecular Robotics

Presentation Manual for BIOMOD

The road to RoboCup 2050 - IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine

he ultimate goal of the RoboCup initiative is stated as follows [1]: By mid-21st century, a team of fully autonomous hu-manoid robot soccer players shall win the soccer game, comply with the official rule of the FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup. We consider this goal from the perspective of how close we are to it and what has to be done to reach it. What does it mean to imp...

The road ahead for rehabilitation robotics.

Joseph Hidler, PhD; Peter S. Lum, PhD During President Barack Obama’s acceptance speech on the evening of his 2008 Presidential election victory, he spoke about Ann Nixon Cooper, a 106-year-old woman who had voted in her first election. He spoke of all the great things she had seen in her long life, then stated, “If my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what chang...

Automation and Robotics for Road Construction and Maintenance

With rising road construction and maintenance costs and the lack of productivity improvement, automated road construction and maintenance equipment will provide an attractive alternative for the execution of routine work tasks in the future. This paper reviews the typical tasks applicable to this domain, as well as existing and future automated equipment for task execution. The distinction betw...

A Road to Practical Dielectric Elastomer Actuators Based Robotics and Mechatronics: Discrete Actuation

Fundamental studies of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) using viscoelastic materials such as VHB 4905/4910 from 3M showed significant advantages at high stretch rates. The film’s viscous forces increase actuator life and the short power-on times minimize energy losses through current leakage. This paper presents a design paradigm that exploits these fundamental properties of DEAs called di...