My favorite shape, the cycloid, has all of these. It arises from a natural question: If you follow a point on the rim of a wheel as it rolls along a road, what shape is traced out? More ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

Researchers at Texas A&M University have constructed a robot with cycloidal wheels, marking a significant step forward in using robotics in all-terrain environments. The Adaptive Robotics and ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of ...

With the popularity of robot dogs, many people have gotten on the bandwagon and tried building DIY versions. Most of them end up attaching a gearbox to an off-the-shelf brushless motor and call it ...

Rather than scrolling through photos from a recent trip, José Naranja (previously) remembers his travels through exceptionally detailed sketchbooks with notes, illustrations, and ephemera collected ...

BERLIN, GERMANY - AUGUST 31: A visitor tries out an HP Spectre XT laptop computer featuring an ... More Intel Ultrabook processor at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) 2012 consumer ...

At Cycloid, Infrastructure As Code is in the company DNA since the beginning. To help our new customers adopting this best practice, we decided to build Terracognita to convert an existing ...

The template takes care of the margins, pagination, formating, references, appedices, etc. To compile/typeset the thesis template you will also need the cycloid graphic pdf file below. This graphic is ...