A Dragon Comes Home
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
Soft Robotics to bring its mGripAI to new industries
Soft Robotics is expanding the commercial focus of its mGripAI solution for warehouses and distribution centers. | Source: Soft Robotics Soft Robotics announced that it will be expanding the commercial … Read More
Video Friday: Drone in a Cage
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
Video Friday: Automotive Artistry
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
Advanced cable management lets robots depaint airplanes
Titan’s robots use lasers to strip the paint from airplanes. | Source: Titan Robotics The aviation industry is no stranger to automation. The first “gyroscopic automatic pilot” dates back to … Read More
Maple Seeds Inspire Efficient Spinning Microdrone
The relatively simple and now quite pervasive quadrotor design for drones emphasizes performance and manufacturability, which is fine, but there are some tradeoffs—namely, endurance. Four motors with rapidly spinning tiny … Read More
Festo introduces pneumatic cobot arm
Festo’s pneumatic collaborative robot will be available in 2023. | Source: Festo Festo announced its pneumatic collaborative robot (cobot) arm at the Festo TechTalk 2022 earlier today. The company plans … Read More
Robots and Humans Make Murals Together
Robots are well known for having consistency and precision that humans tend to lack. Robots are also well known for not being especially creative—depending I suppose on your definition of … Read More
Clearbot Neo autonomously clears plastic from harbors
Clearbot Neo autonomously navigates the water and collects floating trash from its surface. | Source: Open Ocean Engineering Open Ocean Engineering’s Clearbot Neo is a robotic boat that autonomously navigates … Read More
Video Friday: No Time to Dance
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
Cruise’s robotaxis now cover 70% of San Francisco
A comparison of the old and new service area for Cruise’s robotaxis in San Francisco. | Credit: Cruise Tuesday night, Cruise expanded its robotaxi services to nearly 70% of San … Read More
Automating Road Maintenance With LiDAR Technology
This is a sponsored article brought to you by SICK Inc.. From advanced manufacturing to automated vehicles, engineers are using LiDAR to change the world as we know it. For … Read More
Clearpath Announces TurtleBot 4
Today, Clearpath Robotics is opening pre-orders for the newest, fanciest TurtleBot: the TurtleBot 4. Built on top of iRobot’s Create 3 in close partnership with Open Robotics, the TurtleBot 4 … Read More
Boston Dynamics upgrades Spot with faster charging, new payloads, 5G
Editor’s Note: At the Robotics Summit & Expo, which takes place May 10-11 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Boston Dynamics will give attendees the chance to take Spot for … Read More
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter spots Perseverance debris
Debris from the Perseverance rover’s landing captured by the Ingenuity helicopter from an altitude of 26 feet. | Source: NASA/JPL NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter spotted the Perseverance Rover’s parachute and cone-shaped … Read More
Intel wins DARPA RACER-Sim program
The INTEL race sim software enables quicker modeling of off road worlds for the subsequent testing of autonomous off-road vehicles. | Credit: INTEL The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) … Read More
Video Friday: Penguins and Huskies
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
Team PoliMOVE sets a new ground speed record for autonomous vehicles of 192.2 mph
Team PoliMOVE’s Dallara AV-21 autonomous racecar on the runway at Kennedy Space Center, Florida | Credit: IAC The Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) racecar, a Dallara AV-21 programmed by team PoliMOVE … Read More
UCSB and Disney Find Out How High a Robot Can Possibly Jump
Over the last decade or so, we’ve seen an enormous variety of jumping robots. With a few exceptions, these robots look to biology to inspire their design and functionality. This … Read More
Unitree closes Series B round for quadruped robots
Unitree Robotics’ Go1 quadruped robot. | Source: Unitree Robotics Unitree Robotics, a Chinese company developing a line of industrial and consumer grade quadruped robots, announced that it brought in hundreds … Read More
Touchlab brings in over $4.5M to make robots feel like humans
Touchlab’s team from left to right: Dr. Vasilis Mitrakos, Zach Keane, Dr. Vlad Ivan, Laura Garvia Caberol and Dr. Zaki Hussein. | Source: Touchlab Touchlab, a UK startup with the … Read More
Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge
Deep below the Louisville, Ky., zoo lies a network of enormous caverns carved out of limestone. The caverns are dark. They’re dusty. They’re humid. And during one week in September … Read More
Agility Robotics’ Digit bring in $150M
Digit has been at work with customers since 2018. The robot currently moves totes and packages and unloades trailers. | Source: Agility Robotics Agility Robotics, the company behind the bipedal … Read More
Video Friday: Strandbeest
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
Even as It Retires, Asimo Still Manages to Impress
Honda’s ASIMO humanoid robot is retiring. For the last 20 years, ASIMO had been performing at the Honda showroom in Tokyo, Japan, but these regular demonstrations are now at an … Read More
Google researchers teach robots to learn by watching
Different robot end effectors. Roboticists usually teach robots new tasks by remotely operating them through performing a task. The robot then imitates the demonstration until it can perform the task … Read More
SoftBank Robotics Group invests in Avalon SteriTech for a clean future
The Softbank Whiz AMR combines floor cleaning and disinfection capabilities into a single unit. | Image credit: Softbank Whiz SoftBank Robotics Group Corp. (“SBRG”) announced a strategic equity investment into … Read More
Robotic Rat Climbs, Crawls, and Turns on a Dime
There has been much interest in designing robots that are agile enough to navigate through tight spaces. This ability could be useful in assessing disaster zones or pipelines, for example. … Read More
200k Deliveries Later, Wing Expands Drone Delivery to Texas
There are all kinds of things that you can do with robots. This, in some sense, is a problem with robots—just because some task or problem can be solved with … Read More
Inside the RBR50
Thanks to self-charging capabilities and upgraded hardware and software to its Spot quadruped, Boston Dynamics made the RBR50 list for the third consecutive year. | Credit: Boston Dynamics Each year, … Read More