All articles starting with R

Robotic sortation

Robotic sortation is the use of robots instead of fixed mechanical sorters to identify parcels by label and direct them to destination bins, chutes, or containers.

Robotic thymectomy

Robotic thymectomy is a minimally invasive operation in which a surgeon uses a robot-assisted system, typically the da Vinci platform, to remove the thymus through small chest incisions.

Robotic thyroidectomy

Robotic thyroidectomy is a surgical technique that removes all or part of the thyroid through incisions in the axilla, breast, or behind the ear, avoiding a neck scar.

Robotic total station

A robotic total station (RTS) is a surveying instrument that measures angles and distances to a prism while automatically tracking it, letting one operator do work that once needed two.

Robotic vacuum cleaner

A robotic vacuum cleaner is an autonomous robot that vacuums, and in many models mops, household floors without human control, returning to a charging dock between runs.

Robotic welding

Robotic welding is an automated manufacturing process in which an industrial robot performs and controls a weld, pioneered in automotive body shops and now common in shipbuilding and aerospace.

Robotic-assisted thoracic surgery

Robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) is a minimally invasive technique where a surgeon at a console drives wristed robotic instruments inside the chest, most often for lung resection.

Robotica is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering robotics and automation, published by Cambridge University Press since 1983 and an official journal of the International Federation of Robotics.

Robotics

Robotics is the science and practice of designing, manufacturing, and applying robots, a field spanning factory manipulators, mobile transport robots, medical and surgical systems, and consumer devices like robotic vacuums.

Robotics and Autonomous Systems (journal)

Robotics and Autonomous Systems is a monthly peer-reviewed robotics journal published by Elsevier in the Netherlands, affiliated with the IAS Society, covering theoretical and experimental aspects of autonomous systems.

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (RCIM) is an international, peer-reviewed research journal published by Elsevier since 1984, covering industrial robotics, cloud-based manufacturing, and cyber-physical production systems.

Robotics and Mechatronics Center, German Aerospace Center

The Robotics and Mechatronics Center is the German Aerospace Center's competence center for robotics and mechatronics research in Oberpfaffenhofen, Bavaria, known for lightweight robots, the SpaceMouse, and space robotics.

Robotics Business Review

Robotics Business Review is a business-to-business trade publication covering the commercial robotics industry, launched in 2010 and known for the annual RBR50 awards and the RoboBusiness conference.

Robotics Education and Competition Foundation

The Robotics Education & Competition Foundation is an American nonprofit founded in 2011 that organizes student robotics and drone competitions, reaching 320,000 students in 125 countries.

Robotics engineering

Robotics engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with designing, building, programming, and operating robotic systems, blending mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering with control theory.

Robotics Institute

The Robotics Institute, founded in 1979 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, is described as the world's largest university-affiliated robotics research group and offered the first robotics PhD.

Robotics Library (software)

The Robotics Library (RL) is an open source C++ library for robot kinematics, dynamics, motion planning, and control, free for commercial use under a BSD license.

Robotics Society of Japan

The Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ) is a Japanese professional society for robotics research, founded in 1983 and publishing the Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan.

Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB

The Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB is a free, open-source set of MATLAB functions for robot manipulators and mobile robots, created by Peter Corke and first released in 1995.

Robotics Toolbox for Python

The Robotics Toolbox for Python is an open-source Python library by Peter Corke and Jesse Haviland for kinematics, dynamics, motion planning, and control of arm-type and mobile robots.

Robotino

Robotino is a mobile robot platform made by Festo Didactic, introduced in 2006 for education and research, with an omnidirectional three-wheel drive and support for ROS, MATLAB, and Python.

Robotiq

Robotiq is a Canadian robotics company, founded in 2008 as a Université Laval spinoff, that makes adaptive grippers, force-torque sensors, and vision systems for industrial and collaborative robots.

ROBOTIS

ROBOTIS is a South Korean robotics company headquartered in Seoul, best known for its DYNAMIXEL networked robot actuators, plus controllers, humanoid platforms, and educational robot kits.

Robotman (Cliff Steele)

Robotman (Cliff Steele, also briefly Automaton) is a DC Comics Doom Patrol hero, a racecar driver's brain in a robot body after a crash; created by Haney, Drake, and Premiani in 1963.

Roboto

Roboto is Google's neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface by Christian Robertson, released 2011 with Android 4.0, default system font of Android and Material Design, revised in 2014, with Slab, Mono, and Condensed variants.

RobOtol

RobOtol is a teleoperated surgical robot for ear surgery that holds an endoscope or micro-instrument and assists cochlear implant electrode insertion, reaching clinical use in Paris.

Robotran

Robotran is a software environment for modeling and simulating multibody systems, whose equations of motion are generated symbolically; it was developed at UCLouvain in Belgium.

Robotron: 2084

Robotron: 2084 (ロボトロン2084) is a 1982 Williams Electronics arcade twin-stick shooter by Vid Kidz (Eugene Jarvis, Larry DeMar); dual-joystick controls, wave-based survival, rescuing the last human family from Robotrons.

Robots (2005 film)

Robots is a 2005 American computer-animated comedy film directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, about a young inventor who battles a corporate villain in a robot world.