Robotics projects are always a favorite for hackers. Being able to almost literally bring your project to life evokes a special kind of joy that really drives our wildest imaginations. We imagine this ...

Inverse Kinematics (IK) is a technique used in game engines and animation software to control the movement of a character's joints in a more realistic way. In this tutorial, let's go over the basics ...

The difficulty of inverse kinematics for cable-driven continuum robots stems from a fundamental property of their geometry: ...

Robot arms have a hidden mathematical problem that most people never think about: for a seven-joint robotic manipulator, there is not one correct answer to where the joints should be, but infinitely ...

Normally when you hear the words “rope” and “dog” in the same sentence, you think about a dog on a leash, but in this robot dog, the rope is what makes it move, not what stops it from going too far.

A kinematic model is a mathematical representation of a robot’s motion that focuses on the geometric relationships between elements and ignores external forces that affect motion. Kinematic models are ...

So you’ve built your Gothic castle-it’s time for your hero to dash into play and defend the battlements. Your gaming engine supports skeletons, an animation system called Inverse Kinematics (IK), and ...