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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
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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 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 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 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
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
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’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 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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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’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
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 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’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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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