Video Friday: Preparing for the SubT Final
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
China’s Mars Helicopter to Support Future Rover Exploration
The first ever powered flight by an aircraft on another planetary took place in April when NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, delivered to the Red Planet along with Perseverance rover, but the … Read More
RE2 Robotics developing underwater mine neutralization system
The Maritime Mine Neutralization System will use various components from RE2 Robotics and VideoRay’s Defender remotely operated vehicle. | Photo Credit: RE2 Robotics RE2 Robotics received a $9.5 million contract … Read More
Developing open-source systems for first responder legged robots
Digit, a bipedal robot from Agility Robotics, being tested at the University of Michigan. | Photo Credit: Joseph Xu/University of Michigan Engineering Tomorrow’s wildfire fighters and other first responders may … Read More
Spot’s 3.0 Update Adds Increased Autonomy, New Door Tricks
While Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid spends its time learning how to dance and do parkour, the company’s Spot quadruped is quietly getting much better at doing useful, valuable tasks in … Read More
Boston Dynamics Spot learns new skills with 3.0 release
Spot Release 3.0 adds functionality to make Spot the data collection solution you need for safer and more efficient inspection rounds. | Image credit: Boston Dynamics Boston Dynamics enhances its … Read More
Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs
A few years ago, Martin Ford published a book called Architects of Intelligence, in which he interviewed 23 of the most experienced AI and robotics researchers in the world. Those … Read More
Faster Microfiber Actuators Mimic Human Muscle
Robotics, prosthetics, and other engineering applications routinely use actuators that imitate the contraction of animal muscles. However, the speed and efficiency of natural muscle fibers is a demanding benchmark. Despite … Read More
Whiz Gambit combines autonomous vacuuming with disinfection
The Whiz Gambit AMR combines floor cleaning and disinfection capabilities into a single unit. | Image credit: Softbank Whiz The world is learning to live with the impact of the … Read More
Video Friday: Robotic Gaze
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
Exosuit That Helps With the Heavy Lifting
New advances in robotics can help push the limits of the human body to make us faster or stronger. But now researchers from the Biorobotics Laboratory at Seoul National University … Read More
The iRobot J7 may be smarter than your pet
The iRobot J7 vacuuming robot uses AI to identify obstacles. | Image credit: iRobot Who says that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? What if your robotic vacuum … Read More
With New Roomba j7, iRobot Wants to Understand Our Homes
The power that computer vision has gained over the last decade or so has been astonishing. Thanks to machine learning techniques applied to large datasets of images and video, it’s … Read More
Video Friday: Robot Gecko Smashes Face Into Tree
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We’ll also be posting a … Read More
Agility Robotics’ Digit Is Getting Back to Work
Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoid has been taking a bit of a break from work during the pandemic. Most of what we’ve seen from Agility and Digit over the past year … Read More
We’re Getting Closer to Flying Humanoid Robots
A couple of years ago, we wrote about a bipedal robot called Jet-HR1 under development at the Guangdong University of Technology. With little foot-mounted ducted fans, Jet-HR1 could step across … Read More
Video Friday: Afghan Girls Robotics Team Reaches Safety
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
Astrobee Will Find Astronauts’ Lost Socks
At some point in the not too distant future, NASA wants to put a permanent space station called Gateway in orbit around the moon. Unlike the International Space Station with … Read More
How Boston Dynamics makes Atlas run, flip & vault
What does it take for a robot to run, flip, vault, and leap like an athlete? Creating these high-energy demonstrations is a fun challenge, but our technical goals go beyond … Read More
An Army of Grain-harvesting Robots Marches Across Russia
The field of automated precision agriculture is based on one concept—autonomous driving technologies that guide vehicles through GPS navigation. Fifteen years ago, when high-accuracy GPS became available for civilian use, … Read More
Bedrock deploys autonomous submarine to map the ocean floor
Bedrock Mosiac leverages autonomous underwater vehicles to map the seafloor. | Image credit: Bedrock Bedrock, launches a new ocean survey service, powered by a 100% electric autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). … Read More
3 tips to developing outdoor robots for unstructured environments
Mowing sloped terrain in Florida. | Photo Credit: Scythe Robotics Every roboticist has heard about the three Ds: dull, dirty and dangerous tasks we’d be better off having robots do … Read More
Video Friday: Constant Gardener
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few … Read More
Elon Musk Has No Idea What He’s Doing With Tesla Bot
Yesterday, at the end of Tesla’s AI Day, Elon Musk introduced a concept for “Tesla Bot,” a 125 lb, 5’8″ tall electromechanically actuated autonomous bipedal “general purpose” humanoid robot. By … Read More
Robotics designed for harsh environments
In the following article we will discuss how one company employs creative design techniques and online configuration tools to provide customized motors and gearheads for their latest robotic arm and … Read More
The 4th industrial revolution
The world has gone through 3 industrial revolutions since 1760, and now we are on the verge of the 4th industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, also known as digital manufacturing. Let’s … Read More
Q&A: Boston Dynamics on Atlas’s Parkour Skills
Yesterday’s video from Boston Dynamics showing a pair of Atlas robots doing parkour together is already up to nearly 3 million views, and for good reason. The company continues to … Read More
Robot Could Operate a Docking Station Inside the Gut
Picture, if you will, a cargo rocket launching into space and docking on the International Space Station. The rocket maneuvers up to the station and latches on with an airtight … Read More
Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control
The smart hand is soft and elastic, weighs about half a pound, and costs a fraction of comparable prosthetics. For the more than 5 million people in the world who … Read More
As easy as ABC
With Solid Edge® CAD software, Van Robotics can realize its vision of designing smart, physically embodied robot tutors that carry out machine learning tasks in the classroom. In many ways, … Read More