PyBullet is an easy-to-use Physics simulation engine that is used extensively by the robotics community for making various queries involving Collision detection, Ray intersection, Forward and Inverse-kinematics, and dynamics computations. As it is a wrapper on top of the Bullet physics SDK, it has become a handy tool for various…

Robot-Assisted surgeries have been a thing since their emergence. They have served their share in the operating theatre to enhance the recovery of patients and they have aided in reducing the complexity and risk of many surgeries. Their contribution to medicine is remarkable as they have, and are being accepted…

Universal robots are being used extensively in many domains. From packaging to surgeries, they have found their application in many places. They are also very famous and robust because of the active community they have created with their huge developer base. I believe that the universal robots forum is a…

Robots have been aiding the industrial and manufacturing sectors for a very long time. And similarly, many other sectors like entertainment (eg mocoBot) have embraced robots for their own betterment and Unsurprisingly, Their induction into the surgical space enabled the surgeons to perform surgeries in a better way. …

To put the problem statement in simple terms, Imagine that you are posed with the task to fix light bulbs to illuminate a room that is in the shape of a polygon with n vertices. Let us assume that the cameras have an infinite range and 360 degrees of visibility…

One essential and crucial concept in today’s Computation geometry is Convex Hull. As it finds applications that are spread out diverse in various domains of engineering and sciences the research scope for optimizing its algorithms continues even today. …

Robotics being a generic domain, it involves and converges vast and different domains like Mechanical, Electrical, and Computer science engineering. So, it requires a niche and peculiar management workflow and project tracking methodology for rapid development and prototyping. There is no popular tool that is specifically built for robotics project…

The book begins with the narration of an incident wherein the question “Why should I live?” is being posed to cognitive scientist and Harvard professor Dr. Steven pinker. For a young man or woman dealing through his/her quarter life crisis, this question, his response and how it kindled his interest…

An essay for the Gandhi peace foundation — Introduction:- Impractical, less-masculine, exaggerated are words that are nowadays used to criticise Ahimsa. A large number of people have that perception in today’s intolerant and chauvinistic times. But Ahimsa is a way of life that continues to evolve with time and adopts its tone, tenor and color as it moulds…