laboratory and manufactured by SINTERS. For both of them, we discuss design and control issues.  …

autonomously. Design/methodology/approach – Focuses on the electro‐mechanical mechanisms required to make the Segway RMP autonomous …

Purpose – Aims to describe design, prototyping and characteristics of a pole climbing/manipulating robot with ability … of passing bends and branches of the pole. Design/methodology/approach – Introducing a hybrid (parallel/serial) four … degree of freedom (DOF) mechanism as the main part of the robot and also introduces a unique gripper design for pole climbing …

programming. We have explored the use of spoken language for programming robots. Design/methodology/approach – Two applications … implications – It is proposed that service robot design should start with investigating the way end‐users will communicate with the … robot. This is encapsulated in the “corpus‐based” approach to robot design illustrated in this paper. This results in more …

. Design/methodology/approach – In order to achieve limb actuation similar to that of human muscles, a novel actuator with … adaptable compliance is proposed. Three principal design paradigms currently exist in the development of artificial muscles that …

, configurations on the hexapod robotic platform SILO6. Design/methodology/approach – Dynamic simulation of this hexapod is used to …

able to realize. Design/methodology/approach – This is a theoretical paper aimed to highlight a double meaning of …

audio/visual reconnaissance payload, and survive impacts from 3 meters. Design/methodology/approach – The platform uses a … two‐wheel, two‐motor design that delivers high mobility with low complexity. DROP extends microspine climbing technology …/value – This robot is the first wheeled robot to use microspine technology. Various aspects of the prototype robot's design and …