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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

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

In robotics, physics engines and simulators serve different but complementary roles. A physics engine handles the mathematics of simulation such as computing forces, collisions, and the dynamics that make objects move and interact realistically. A simulator builds on these engines to provide a complete virtual testing environment, by adding sensors, 3D environments, visualization tools, and interfaces for communication with frameworks like ROS 2. In short, the physics engine provides the underlying math and realism, while the simulator delivers the interactive and visual layer needed for full robotics development and testing. ROS 2 (Robot Operating System 2) is an open-source middleware framework that enables communication between robot components such as sensors, […] Read More

When we talk about robots, the first images that come to mind are often machines that move, sense, and act here on Earth. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, twin spacecrafts launched in 1977, don’t fit that stereotype, but they share the same fundamental qualities. They are machines equipped with sensors, mechanisms for movement, decision-making routines, and the ability to act independently. In that sense, they are robotic explorers—though their mission takes place in deep space, billions of kilometers away. Each Voyager spacecraft was designed to study the outer planets and then continue into interstellar space. To do this, they carry a suite of instruments that measure magnetic fields, charged particles, […] Read More

In robotics, an encoder is a sensor that measures physical movement and converts it into electrical signals, such as measuring how much a motor rotates, which is converted into electrical signals, which can then be processed by a robot’s motion control system. It is possible to group encoders in a few ways such as: Incremental vs. Absolute which is to keep track of positions, Rotary vs. Linear for measuring rotational or linear movement Or the system that is used to measure the movement such as magnetic, optical, capacitive and a few more. As an example, (see figure below) an optical encoder works by a light source emitting a tiny amount […] Read More

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