In many modern aviation, naval ship, nuclear facilities, and industrial projects, confined spaces and hazardous environments are very common. Traditionally, many of these applications have required ...

Brian Roe playing with Roy’s brain (battery) @Maker Faire Meet Roy. He’s a swell guy, really. He’s also a robot made largely out of parts cut on a laser cutter, and with your help on Kickstarter, you ...

Makerarm is a robotic 3D printer, laser cutter, drawing and ink printer, fabricator and assembly machine all rolled into one that fits on a desktop and promises to make pretty much anything – ...

Fabricating metal provides an ideal use case for automation. Processes often are repetitive and require a high amount of precision – the perfect working conditions for an industrial robot. Laser ...

If you’ve got more than a handful of 3D printers or other devices running at a time, it’s a full-time job keeping them going — removing and packaging products, tweaking settings, pushing “OK” after ...

Here at Hackaday we’ve covered a bunch of DIY laser diode projects. And for good reason, they are just cool. We’ve seen people add lasers to their 3D printers, stick one in a milling machine, use a ...

Back in the previous century, one of the most common expectations about the future was that it would include robot assistants for all. The Jetsons had one, the crew of the C-57D had one, the Robinsons ...

For the budding roboticist, omniwheels might be the next step in design patterns from your everyday “getting-started” robot kits. These wheels consist of tiny rollers that sit on the perimeter of the ...

Swiss medtech company Advanced Osteotomy Tools AG (AOT) has announced its first clinical use (first-in-man) of CARLO. The medical device with the LBR Med from KUKA was successfully used in the Oral ...