... xswang@seu.edu.cn 28 01 2026 16 03 2026 06 04 2026 © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Rebar binding robot Robot design Automated construction Error compensation Construction industry The National Key...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Robot design Climbing robot Metal mesh structure climbing Rope-aided climbing The proposed RASARC uses a rope-aided climbing motion pattern. As illustrated in the schematic diagram in Figure 2 , the robot is equipped with a pair of ropes, each...

... analysis Drive system performance analysis Robot design Prototype testing Dalian Science and Technology Innovation Fund 2021JJ13SN50 Dalian Shield Safe Technology Ltd. 2020067 Key Research and Development and Achievement Transformation Project of Wuhu City 2023yf044 Dalian...

... Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Robot design Magnetic wheel Obstacle traverse Steel girders Inspection robot the “Pioneer” and “Leading Goose” R&D Program of Zhejiang; 2023C03186. Steel I-beam girders are widely used in steel...

...@fudan.edu.cn 13 10 2024 25 11 2024 08 12 2024 © 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Robot design Mobile robot Terrestrial-aerial robot Multimode motion Mechanics and control Mobile robotics is one of the most...

... Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Pipeline inspection robot Variable-diameter mechanism Mechanical analysis Robot design In the field of modern pipeline transportation, fuels, such as oil and natural gas, constitute a large proportion...

... 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Cable trench Inspection robot Robot design Climbing and obstacle-crossing Power grid security Cable trenches are critical infrastructure in power transmission systems (Xie et al., 2021), housing high-voltage...

... 02 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Friction stir welding Robot design Online patchings Nonrigid support High-speed passenger trains and large freight trains are two crucial development avenues due to the ongoing...

... framework can provide a platform for innovative laser-SLAM-based method testing in ACTs applications. Therefore, this study can effectively meet the high requirements of ACT for maturity and stability of the laser navigation technical. Automated guided vehicles (AGV) Robot design SLAM Positioning...

... docking, but also achieved super docking stability. Figure 1 Mechanical analysis of “cone–cone” docking mechanism The docking condition was shown in equation (4) : Mobile robot Robot design Modular automation Cooperative robots Cone-hole docking mechanism Docking stability Modular...

...-wheeled inspection robot designed by Canada Quebec Hydro (Figure 2) (Beaudry and Poirier, 2012) and the robotic inspection system developed by China North Vehicle Research Institute (Figure 3) (Zhang et al., 2017). As compared with the outdoor inspection in substations, the indoor one presents...

... be used in more research and applications with its extensibility. Grippers Robot design Dexterous hand With the idea of designing a scalable and practical modular dexterous hand, some basic requirements should be considered: the DOFs, the hand layout, the payload (Ponce and Faverjon, 1995...

..., they are mainly suitable for structured environments. Alternatively, soft robots are able to adapt to the environment, provide compliance to different objects and achieve high levels of safety when interacting with human beings. Grippers Robot design Compliant mechanisms Kinematic model Soft-rigid...

... regarding his pioneering efforts in starting robotic companies and commercializing technological inventions. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The interviewee is Brennard Pierce, a world-class robotics designer and serial entrepreneur. Pierce is currently consulting...

... of Exoskeletons, Founder and CEO of U.S. Bionics (DBA suitX), Founder of Ekso Bionics Robot design Exoskeletons Prosthetics Rehabilitation robots Man machine interface (MMI) Medical robots © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only 10...

... Redundant arms Workspace Dexterity and singularity analysis Machine learning Collision avoidance Humanoid robots Robot design Cooperative robots Neural networks Robotic manipulators are used widely in various fields for intensive and high accuracy operations. Robots used in industrial...

... for surgical assistance in confined spaces with applications to minimally invasive surgery of the throat, natural orifice surgery, cochlear implant surgery and dexterous bimanual microsurgery. Theoretical aspects of his research include robot design and kinematics. Originality/value Dr Simaan is a leading...

... of a wheelchair. Robotics Military Mobile robots Robot design Field robotics Hazardous Figure 1 Geoff Howe, Senior Vice President, Howe and Howe, Inc., a subsidiary of Textron Systems Figure 2 Brothers Geoff and Mike, known as “Howe and Howe Construction” since the age of six, built...

... rights only Grippers Robotics Robot design Artificial muscle Handling Flexible manufacturing Figure 1 Charlie Duncheon, robotics serial entrepreneur, CEO and cofounder of Celltrio Duncheon: I’ve had a lot of different jobs, but I think my favorite experience is successfully...

... Localization Mobile robots Robot design Construction industry Figure 1 Dr Tessa Lau, Founder and CEO of Dusty Robotics Lau: There are so many. I'm fascinated by this process of creating startups and turning them into viable businesses. I learned a lot from the mistakes we made at Savioke...