Abstract: A hybrid system combining rigid and soft robots (e.g., soft fingers attached to a rigid arm) ensures safe and dexterous interaction with humans. Nevertheless, modeling complex movements ...

Kaleidocycles are flexible polyhedral structures composed of rigid tetrahedra connected along their edges to form rotating ...

The Padres have not had many games go the way last night’s 8-3 loss to the Cubs did. You can read in Jeff Sanders’ game story (here) about how an impressive night ...

Switching from one smartphone to another is mostly a smooth procedure. You log into your accounts and your apps, preferences, and contacts should sync to the new ...

Abstract: We show how to compute globally optimal solutions to inverse kinematics by formulating the problem as a non-convex quadratically constrained quadratic program. Our approach makes solving ...