Technical tutorials in this white paper explain how to use LabVIEW and NI hardware to design and prototype a variety of robotics applications.

Also, an applications note from National Instruments explains how a functional prototype is vital to robots in order to know how a robot will respond to different situations prior to production.

In a recent special digital issue Steve Bitton of UBM TechInsights dissected a robot and looked at what made it tick.

Got an idea for doing a teardown of your favorite robot? Send us a line to Nicolas Mokhoff.

Watch for the upcoming EE Times' digital edition on Robotics coming at the end of March, where robots like those from Mindstorms will be discussed.