Key to Humanoid Progress: Managing the Power Behind the Robots
This episode of Designing the Future is brought to you by Murata Power Solutions. Robotics, perhaps the most anticipated technology of the 20th century, is finally delivering on the science fiction promise of truly useful, general-purpose, humanoid machines. Speed, mobility, dexterity, vision and the user interface, are all progressing so rapidly that hardly a week goes by without a major advancement. Engineers however, who must deliver on that promise, know that the essence of motion is
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