Video Friday: StickBot
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the … Read More
Tesla’s Optimus robot: transformative or dystopian?
A rendering of Tesla’s humanoid, known as Tesla Bot or Optimus. | Credit: Tesla As I write this, we are all eagerly and skeptically awaiting Elon Musk’s update on Tesla’s … Read More
ANYbotics opens commercial order for ANYmal quadruped
ANYmal X is an autonomous quadruped robot that can perform scalable inspections. | Source: ANYbotics ANYbotics opened up commercial orders for ANYmal X, the company’s quadruped robot. The company has … Read More
Robo-Ostrich Sprints to 100m World Record
For a robot that shares a leg design with the fastest running bird on the planet, we haven’t ever really gotten a sense of how fast Agility Robotics’ Cassie is … Read More
Stanley Robotics to use Velodyne Lidar sensors in its parking robots
Stanley Robotics’ Stan robot, which uses Velodyne Lidar sensors, attaches to the front of cars to park them. | Source: Stanley Robotics Velodyne Lidar announced it signed a multi-year agreement … Read More
iRobot Crams Mop and Vacuum Into Newest Roomba
Robots tend to do best when you optimize them for one single, specific task. This is especially true for home robots, which need to be low cost(ish) as well as … Read More
Flying Robots 3D-Print Structures in Flight
Flying 3D-printing robots modeled after wasps and birds may one day repair and build structures at remote sites beyond the reach of standard construction teams, a new study finds. Construction … Read More
Video Friday: Humans Helping Robots
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the … Read More
UCSF partners with FDA for robotic surgery trial
Intuitive’s Da Vinci SP and Da Vinci Xi surgical systems. | Source: Intuitive UCSF Health, part of UC San Francisco, is preparing for the only FDA-approved study of the use … Read More
Circle of Circuits
The Big Picture features technology through the lens of photographers. Every month, IEEE Spectrum selects the most stunning technology images recently captured by photographers around the world. We choose images … Read More
Video Friday: Loona
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the … Read More
Faster, Meaner, Deadlier: The Evolution of BattleBots
Earlier this year, friend-of-IEEE-Spectrum and fashiontech designer Anouk Wipprecht gave a peek of what it’s like to be a competitor on Battlebots, the 22-year-old robot combat competition, from the preparation … Read More
Video Friday: DARPA ANCILLARY
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the … Read More
FTC investigating Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has officially started an antitrust investigation into Amazon’s plans to acquire robot vacuum maker iRobot for $1.7 billion. Politico reports the FTC is investigating a number … Read More
Drone Lands on Astonishingly Steep Surfaces
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Drones are able to complete a wide range of useful tasks, but they often … Read More
Prosegur Security launches new quadruped patrol option
Prosegur has equipped the Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped with a unique sensing payload for use in guard patrols. | Credit: Prosegur There’s a new security dog in town and his … Read More
Intel Labs research helps robots learn new objects after deployment
The iCub robot, developed by the Italian Institute of Technology, modeling human learning and development in a real-world setting. | Source: Intel Corporation Intel Labs, in collaboration with the Italian … Read More
Video Friday: In Der Natur
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the … Read More
Aerial Dragon Robot Reconfigures Itself into a Flying Manipulator
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. A couple years ago, we wrote about the Dual-rotor embedded multilink Robot with the … Read More
Fraunhofer taps NVIDIA’s simulation skills to improve robot designs
Fraunhofer developed O3dyn to explore new concepts of AMR motion and dynamics for logistics operations. | Credit: Fraunhofer IPA The Fraunhofer Institute in Germany conducts practical research in a number … Read More
NFI deploying Boston Dynamics’ Stretch robot in $10M deal
Boston Dynamics’ Stretch robot. | Credit: Boston Dynamics NFI, a leading third-party logistics provider (3PL), is spending $10 million to deploy Boston Dynamics‘ Stretch robot across its U.S. warehousing operations. … Read More
iRobot addresses privacy concerns amid pending Amazon deal
iRobot’s Roomba j7 robot vacuum has a front-facing. iRobot has over the years discussed its approach to protecting customer data collected by its Roomba robot vacuums. And it’s doing so … Read More
Meijer deploys BeBot, Pixie Drone to clean up the beaches of the Great Lakes
The Bebot robot can clean 32,000 square feet of beach per hour. | Source: Meijer Meijer, a midwestern retailer, is using the BeBot and Pixie Drone to clean up midwestern … Read More
Video Friday: Make This Face
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the … Read More
Boston Dynamics focuses on data insights with Spot 3.2 quadruped
Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped is designed to move across a facility to gather real-time information about different assets. | Source: Boston Dynamics Boston Dynamics announced the latest update for its … Read More
Berkeley researchers announce DayDreamer algorithm
Researchers were able to use DayDreamer to teach a quadruped to walk in just an hour, and even taught it to withstand pushes and roll back onto its feet quickly. … Read More
Video Friday: Dark Side Spot
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the … Read More
myBuddy, a Dual-Arm Collaborative Robot Powered by Raspberry Pi
In July 2022, Elephant Robotics released myBuddy—a dual-arm, 13-axis humanoid collaborative robot powered by Raspberry Pi with multiple functions—at an incredible price. It works with multiple accessories such as suction … Read More
Xiaomi Builds a Humanoid Robot for Some Reason
Xiaomi, a large Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer, has introduced a full size bipedal humanoid robot called CyberOne. It’s 177 centimeters in height and weighs 52 kilograms, and it comes with … Read More
Xiaomi demos new CyberOne bipedal robot
Xiaomi’s recently unveiled bipedal robot CyberOne. | Source: Xiaomi Xiaomi unveiled its bipedal robot CyberOne at an event in Beijing earlier this week. CyberOne joins the company’s quadruped, CyberDog, in … Read More