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IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchCyborg Roaches Can Stab You With Needles Imagine you are trapped under rubble after an earthquake and you see an electronics-covered cockroach with a spring-loaded needle on its back scuttling toward you. Although the sight might be unnerving, to say the least,
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchVideo Friday: Digit Redecorates 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 next few months. Please send us yo
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchProtecting Dynamic Industrial Robot Cable Carriers This article is brought to you by Tsubaki KabelSchlepp . In modern automated manufacturing, six-axis articulated robots perform high-speed, multidirectional maneuvers under demanding operational cycles. However, as robot
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchThe Best Way to Explore Lunar Craters Is a Giant Robot Ball On a good day, the rock quarry in central Texas is about 370,000 kilometers (230,000 miles) from the moon. But last February, when Rishi Jangale watched his 1.8-meter-wide, 150-kilogram inflatable robot roll effortlessly
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchVideo Friday: Meet Microduck 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 next few months. Please send us yo
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchVideo Friday: Do We Need Superhuman Humanoid 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 next few months. Please send us yo
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchDrones With Claws Perch on Arctic Icebergs This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Microspines are one of many ways to enable robots to latch onto surfaces like walls and ceilings . Now roboticists in Canad
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchIs Shipyard Welding the Right First Job for Humanoid Robots? Humanoids desperately need to stop making YouTube videos and get a job already, and Persona AI is one of the few humanoid companies that seems to be entirely focused on making that happen. Persona AI’s approach has been
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchVideo Friday: Lift Happens 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 next few months. Please send us yo
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchRobot Recycler Salvages Parts From Broken Machines Objects constructed by robots are ubiquitous. If you’ve used a car, household appliance, or smartphone today, you’ve used an object constructed at least in part by robots. The more products that manufacturers want to pro
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchVideo Friday: Drones Go Heavy in DARPA Lift Challenge 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 next few months. Please send us yo
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchWhat Robotics Companies Think About the U.S. Foreign Robot Ban The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “Covered List,” originally published in 2021, identifies communications equipment and services that it says pose a threat to national security. On 28 July, the FCC added m
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchWalden Robotics Partners With Toyota on Practical Humanoids For a while there, it seemed as though robotics as a whole was stuck in a mad rush towards building humanoid robots mostly because it was very possible (and very lucrative) to do so, even without near-term goals that wer
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchVideo Friday: Meet Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 2 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 next few months. Please send us yo
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchRobot Finger Feels in Color Imagine running your fingertip over the surface of a U.S. penny. You would feel the ridges of the raised letters and numbers, Abe Lincoln’s bearded side profile, and, if it’s tails, the fluted columns of the Lincoln Memo
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchVideo Friday: An Italian Humanoid Comes to Life 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 next few months. Please send us yo
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchThis Graduate Student Equips NASA’s Robots With Assembly Skills Like many engineers, Sarah Downs says she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM career from a young age. As a teenager, she discovered robotics through her Tulsa, Okla., middle school’s First Lego League team, and she fell in
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchVideo Friday: Your Robot Surgeon Will See You Now 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 next few months. Please send us yo
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchHow to Make an Invisible Drone There are many words that I would never, ever use to describe a drone. Stealthy. Subtle. Whatever the opposite of obnoxious is. Much of this is because of the giant angry bee sound that drones tend to make, but it’s also
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchBuilding a Foundation Stack for General-Purpose Robots This article is brought to you by X Square Robot . Large language models gave artificial intelligence a working recipe. Pretrain a large model on broad data, and general capability follows. Robotics has no such recipe. R
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchVideo Friday: A World Cup for 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 next few months. Please send us y
IEEE Spectrum RoboticsResearchIEEE Honors Robotics Pioneer Toshio Fukuda Toshio Fukuda has been blazing trails for most of his career. He is considered to be one of the most prolific scholars in robotics , writing more than 2,000 research papers and authoring several books on the field. He’s
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