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What is Scribing Robot and How it Reduces Layout Work -

Scribing robot for marking layout lines in construction projects

Scribing robots are designed to automate one of construction’s most precise and repetitive tasks — the layout or marking process. In traditional building projects, workers manually mark floors, walls, and ceilings to indicate where partitions, openings, or utilities should be installed. This step is critical, as every trade depends on these markings for accurate alignment. However, manual scribing is time-consuming and prone to human error. By contrast, scribing robots use advanced sensors, digital layout data, and precision control systems to mark construction surfaces automatically. They can complete layout work much faster and with a higher level of consistency. As construction sites become increasingly digitized, scribing robots are helping bridge the […] Read More

Speeding up Robot Design: Brax – Google’s Free Physics Engine -

Ever crashed a pricey robot prototype into a wall during testing? Or waited days for one trial-and-error run to wrap up? If you’re into robots—whether for fun, factories, or the future—those headaches are real. But what if you could simulate thousands of bots at once, tweaking their brains in hours instead of weeks? Enter Brax, Google’s free open-source physics engine that’s revolutionizing how we “teach” robots to walk, grab, and navigate. Picture this: No more dusty warehouses or risky resets. Brax runs on your GPU or TPU (fancy hardware for speedy math), letting you parallel-test robot designs like a digital assembly line. Built on JAX (a supercharged Python toolkit), it […] Read More

Upcoming Major Robotics Events -

Major Robotics Events

Below, we’ve curated a chronological guide to major international robotics conferences, exhibitions, and symposia through the end of 2026, highlighting opportunities to explore emerging technologies, forge collaborations, and stay at the forefront of this dynamic discipline. International Robot Exhibition (ROBOTWORLD) 2025 – November 5–8, 2025 – Seoul, South Korea – https://eng.robotworld.or.kr/ – A major international exhibition showcasing a wide range of industrial and service robots, alongside the International Symposium on Robotics (ISR). IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) 2025 – December 2–5, 2025 – San Juan, Argentina – https://icar2025.inaut.unsj.edu.ar/ – A prestigious, long-running international conference covering a broad spectrum of advanced robotics research and applications, hosted by IEEE. IEEE/SICE […] Read More

Top Domestic Robots – October 2025 -

RobotMagazine.Com Top Domestic Robots List - October 2025

Domestic robots take over more and more tasks everyday. Below you can find a top robot list we have made for domestic robots, which means home, consumer, service and retail robots. You can find the general description of the methodology and the disclaimer below the table. Rank Robot Name Company Country 1 Roomba iRobot Corporation USA 2 Roborock Beijing Roborock Technology Co., Ltd. China 3 Deebot ECOVACS Group China 4 Automower Husqvarna Group Sweden 5 Dolphin Maytronics Israel 6 Litter-Robot Whisker USA 7 Aibo Sony Corporation Japan 8 Nuro Nuro, Inc. USA 9 Pepper Aldebaran Robotics France/Japan 10 LG CLOi LG Electronics South Korea 11 LocusBot Locus Robotics USA 12 […] Read More

Multirotor / Quadcopter Design Primary Goals -

Multirotor drones, and mainly quadcopters are the most popular and versatile type of aerial drones, which found use in many fields, such as aerial photography, research, competitions and even military. With their X configuration, they are stable, efficient, easy to control and maneuver. In this post, we will list and describe high level design goals for multirotors / quadcopters. We will focus on components of the drone itself (e.g. frame, motors, flight control system etc…) in future posts, however we will still mention these components here as applicable, while talking about each main design criteria. When designing a multirotor, the following main criteria are taken into account, all of which […] Read More

What Is Robot Description Format -

urdf robot description format

When designing robots, there is the need for a system in standardized format, to describe physical and kinematic properties of a robot. This is achieved by a robot description format. There are several commonly used formats including but not limited to URDF, SDF, MJCF. URDF (Unified Robot Description Format) is an XML based format which describes physical and kinematic properties of a robot for use in robotics software, and mainly in ROS (Robot Operating System), which is open source and the most widely used robot design software today. Let’s take a closer look at what URDF specifically does: Therefore it is a great tool in visualization of the robot and […] Read More