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Boston Dynamics is the master of dropping amazing robot videos with no warning, and last week, we got a surprise look at the new electric Atlas going “hands on” with a practical factory task ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/boston-dynamics-new-atlas

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 ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-trick-or-treat-atlas

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 ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-swiss-mile-employees

This article is part of our special report, “Reinventing Invention: Stories from Innovation’s Edge .” Marina Umaschi Bers has long been at the forefront of technological innovation for...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/scratchjr

Simone Giertz came to fame in the 2010s by becoming the self-proclaimed “queen of shitty robots.” On YouTube she demonstrated a hilarious series of self-built mechanized devices that worked...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/simone-giertz

The water column is hazy as an unusual remotely operated vehicle glides over the seafloor in search of a delicate tilt meter deployed three years ago off the west side of Vancouver Island. The se...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/marine-science

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 ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-mobile-robot-upgrades

Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior M...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/boston-dynamics-toyota-research

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...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-reachy-2

Thirteen years since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in northern Japan, causing a loss of power, meltdowns and a major release of radioactive m...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fukushima-reactor

I’ve been reviewing robot vacuums for more than a decade , and robot mops for just as long . It’s been astonishing how the technology has evolved, from the original iRobot Roomba bouncing off...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/switchbot-s10-review

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 ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-quadruped-ladder-climbing

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 ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-icra40

When we think of grasping robots, we think of manipulators of some sort on the ends of arms of some sort. Because of course we do—that’s how (most of us) are built, and that’s the mindset w...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/epfl-lasa

This is a sponsored article brought to you by Khalifa University of Science and Technology . A total of eight intense competitions to inspire creativity and innovation along with 13 forums de...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/iros2024-abu-dhabi-competitions

Where’s your flying car ? I’m sorry to say that I have no idea. But here’s something that is somewhat similar, in that it flies, transports things, and has “car” in the name: it’s a f...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cargo-drone-2669117300

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...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-zipline-drones

Four decades after the first IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Atlanta, robotics is bigger than ever. Next week in Rotterdam is the IEEE ICRA@40 conference , “a...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/icra40-conference

The software used to control a robot is normally highly adapted to its specific physical set up. But now researchers have created a single general-purpose robotic control policy that can operate...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/machine-learning-and-robotics

This is a sponsored article brought to you by Khalifa University of Science and Technology . Abu Dhabi-based Khalifa University of Science and Technology in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/iros2024-abu-dhabi

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 ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-robot-legs

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...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-robotic-hands

At ICRA 2024, Spectrum editor Evan Ackerman sat down with Unitree founder and CEO Xingxing Wang and Tony Yang, VP of Business Development, to talk about the company’s newest humanoid, the G1 ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/unitree-g1

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 ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-robots-table-tennis

In the 1960s and 1970s, NASA spent a lot of time thinking about whether toroidal (donut-shaped) fuel tanks were the way to go with its spacecraft. Toroidal tanks have a bunch of potential advan...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/metal-forming-robot

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 ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-disney-robot-dance

Boardwalk Robotics is announcing its entry into the increasingly crowded commercial humanoid(ish) space with Alex, a “workforce transformation” humanoid upper torso designed to work in manu...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/boardwalk-robotics-alex-humanoid

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 ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-robot-dog-jump

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 ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/video-friday-shadow-robot-hand

Today, Figure is introducing the newest, slimmest, shiniest, and least creatively named next generation of its humanoid robot : Figure 02. According to the press release, Figure 02 is the result...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/figure-new-humanoid-robot