Robots for Home, Work & Entertainment
This episode of The Robot Report Podcast is sponsored by TE Connectivity. TE Connectivity designs and develops precise products and solutions that connect and protect the flow of power and … Read More
The Moxie companion robot. Credit: Embodied Embodied, a 2021 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award winner, will pilot its Moxie companion robot with the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and Golisano … Read More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for … Read More
TurtleBot 4 will be available starting in Spring 2022. Clearpath Robotics and Open Robotics today announced TurtleBot 4, the next generation of the popular open-source mobile robotics platform. TurtleBot 4 … Read More
For the past month, the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma has been erupting, necessitating the evacuation of 7,000 people as lava flows towards the sea … Read More
Last week, the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) conference took place in Washington, D.C. One of the exhibitors was Ghost Robotics—we’ve previously covered their nimble and dynamic quadrupedal … Read More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for … Read More
As quadrupedal robots learn to do more and more dynamic tasks, they’re likely to spend more and more time not on their feet. Not falling over, necessarily (although that’s inevitable … Read More
Hugo includes wristed instruments and 3D visualization to help surgeons perform minimally-invasive surgeries. | Credit: Medtronic Medtronic received CE mark approval in Europe for its Hugo robotic-assisted surgery system. Fridley, … Read More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for … Read More
It seems inevitable that sooner or later, the performance of autonomous drones will surpass the performance of even the best human pilots. Usually things in robotics that seem inevitable happen … Read More
Back in February of 2019, we wrote about a sort of humanoid robot thing (?) under development at Caltech, called Leonardo. LEO combines lightweight bipedal legs with torso-mounted thrusters powerful … Read More
When DARPA announced that the Subterranean Challenge Final Event would take place in a giant cavern complex in Louisville, and that it would include elements of tunnels, caves, and the … Read More
Saildrone and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are piloting five unmanned surface vehicles in the Atlantic Ocean to gather data about physical processes of hurricanes. | Credit: Saildrone Saildrone … Read More
What a month it was for robotics. Whether it was Intel issuing the end-of-life notice for its RealSense LiDAR products or the underwhelming introduction of Amazon’s much-anticipated consumer robot, Astro, … Read More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for … Read More
Welcome to Episode 56 of The Robot Report Podcast, which brings conversations with robotics innovators straight to you. Join us each week for discussions with leading roboticists, innovative robotics companies, … Read More
We are well into the third wave of major investment in artificial intelligence. So it’s a fine time to take a historical perspective on the current success of AI. In … Read More
Yesterday, Amazon announced a mobile home robot called Astro, which we’ve been expecting for the past several years. Astro’s got wheels. It’s got cameras. It’s got a screen. It has … Read More
Amazon’s Astro robot is an Alexa device on wheels. | Credit: Amazon The rumors were true. Amazon has been working on a home robot for years. And Ryan Hickman, who … Read More
SDP/SI’s new NH1-D frameless motors. Stock Drive Products/Sterling Instrument (SDP/SI) is launching a series of frameless motors as a drop-in solution for robotics applications. Designed to be pressed into a … Read More
This week we have a special DARPA SubT edition of Video Friday, both because the SubT Final is happening this week and is amazing, and also because (if I’m being … Read More
Tally autonomously traverses the grocery aisles to capture real time inventory levels. | Image credit: Simbe Hy-Vee operates more than 240 retail stores in eight Midwestern states, including Illinois, Iowa, … Read More
Each of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge teams is allowed to bring up to 20 people to the Louisville Mega Cavern for the final event. Of those 20 people, only five … Read More
This article is part of our special report on AI, “The Great AI Reckoning.” “I should probably not be standing this close,” I think to myself, as the robot slowly … Read More
In 2023, NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) will land near the western edge of the Nobile Crater at the Moon’s South Pole to map and explore the region’s … Read More
Jetpacks might sound fun, but learning how to control a pair of jet engines strapped to your back is no easy feat. Now a British startup wants to simplify things … Read More
This is it! This week, we’re at the DARPA SubTerranean Challenge Finals in Louisville KY, where more than two dozen Systems Track and Virtual Track teams will compete for millions … Read More
Hyundai Motor Group completed its nearly $1 billion acquisition of Boston Dynamics in June. And now we have our first glimpse at how Hyundai is testing Boston Dynamics’ Spot quadruped … Read More
Locus Robotics and Waypoint Robotics bring compatible technologies together. Image credit: Locus Robotics & Waypoint Robotics Locus Robotics today acquired Waypoint Robotics. This is going to be a great combination … Read More
