Automation and robotics technology is expected to improve the productivity of the
construction industry as well as to solve problems such as labor shortage and safety risks …

In recent decades, skyscrapers, as represented by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and Shanghai
Tower in Shanghai, have been built due to the improvements of construction technologies …

Now in its third edition, this textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the multidisciplinary
field of mobile robotics, which lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computational …

This paper presents a novel garbage pickup robot which operates on the grass. The robot is
able to detect the garbage accurately and autonomously by using a deep neural network for …

Climbing soft robots are of tremendous interest in both science and engineering due to their
potential applications in intelligent surveillance, inspection, maintenance, and detection …

The maintenance and inspection of large vertical structures with autonomous systems is still
an unsolved problem. A large number of different robots exist which are able to navigate on …

Contribution: Prior studies have shown that project-based learning (PBL) is an effective
approach on engineering education. This study further identifies the impact of a design …

In this article, a robot system for intelligent water surface cleaner named IWSCR is
developed to collect floating plastic garbage. It is able to accomplish three major tasks …

Water is one of the most precious resources. However, industrial development has made
water pollution a critical problem today and thus water quality monitoring and surface …

There is an acute shortage of human coconut tree climbers to harvest coconuts in India and
other develo** countries. The consequential diminished availability of skilled tree …