Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

As workplace robots become more common in retail stores, hospitals, and warehouses, their human coworkers need to know how to use and reprogram them. Yet most people lack that kind of highly technical ...

For years, I've watched capable engineers explain exactly how a robot should behave to solve their problems, then get told they need to hire a specialist to implement it. A facilities manager who ...

Overview:  Reinforcement learning in 2025 is more practical than ever, with Python libraries evolving to support real-world simulations, robotics, and deci ...

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Abhishek Patil (MSR '16) talks about robotics in construction and how his time in Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program prepared him to help develop cutting-edge ...

In this article, I’m going to show how to use a Python robot framework to develop control software, describe the control scheme I developed for my simulated robot, illustrate how it interacts with its ...