Robotics

A man wearing a face mask touches a computer screen in a lab with robotic arms in the foreground.

Solving a Robotics Puzzle During a Summer Internship at NIST

January 26, 2022

For nine years, I have been obsessed with the Rubik’s Cube. It is a puzzle that has simultaneously stumped and interested the whole world since it was first

Creating and Commercializing the NIST RoboCrane

November 3, 2021

The RoboCrane — now hard at work at the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear cleanup sites — is a good example of a successfully commercialized technology invented

Search and Rescue Robotics: A Q&A With NIST's Adam Jacoff

May 7, 2021

Adam Jacoff has been a robotics research engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) since 1988. His research has focused on

Need Some Good News? NIST’s 2020 Highlights

December 22, 2020

2020 has been a challenging year, but we at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have worked as hard as we can to fulfill our mission for

A.I. for Smarter Factories: The World of Industrial Artificial Intelligence

September 2, 2020

As the digital age moves forward, it’s becoming impossible to avoid interacting with artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Computer assistants and AIs perform

The Cybernetic Revolution: The Influence of Metrology on the User Experience in Human-Robot Interaction

May 1, 2019

I was told there would be robots. We are living in a world in which we are surrounded by technology tailored to our needs. Our clothes are treated with

Flying Drones Compete to Complete Unprecedented Feat

August 1, 2018

Whether it’s the effort to redefine the kilogram or researching the Harry Potter realm of quantum mechanics where things can somehow be in two or more places at

Timothy Zimmerman checking connections in the Cybersecurity for Smart Manufacturing Systems testbed

Ensuring the Cybersecurity of Manufacturing Systems

October 6, 2017

Cybersecurity, at this point in the technological age, has become a household word. Every week, almost like clockwork, it seems there is a story on the news

Making 'The Technology' for Exoskeletons a Reality

February 28, 2017

I grew up in a small farming community in southern Georgia. My main exposure to new technology was through the annual farm equipment exposition, science fiction

Taking Measure