A new GaN-based motor-drive inverter designed for tight robotic joints is pushing the limits of power density, thermal efficiency, and fast dynamic control aimed squarely at next-generation humanoid ...

An unexpected revisit to my earlier post on mouse encoder hacking sparked a timely opportunity to reexamine quadrature encoders, this time with a clearer lens and a more targeted focus on their signal ...

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Efficient Power Conversion Corporation (EPC) has introduced the EPC91120, a compact three-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motor drive inverter designed for integration within humanoid robot joints. The ...

OpenAI announced on Thursday it has acquired Software Applications, Inc., the makers of an AI-powered natural language interface for Mac computers called Sky. The software product, which had not been ...

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NLWeb is an open project developed by Microsoft that aims to make it simple to create a rich, natural language interface for websites using the model of their choice and their own data. Our goal is ...

Rutronik Adapter Board RAB7 is an open-source hardware Arduino shield designed for AI-powered Sensor Fusion with seven environmental and inertial sensors from Bosch, Infineon, and Sensirion. The ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. As robotics matures from simple process automation to more advanced AI-driven systems, engineers are faced with making critical design choices for a ...

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