3D Printable 20m/s Robotic Table Tennis Ball Smasher with Reinforcement Learning
Here is an open hardware robot that relies on pneumatic muscles to smash table tennis balls at 20 m/s. Even though this is a high speed smasher, it is compliant […]
Astribot S1 7DOF AI Robot Doing Household Chores
This is the Astribot S1: a next generation AI robot that can perform a wide variety of household chores. It can cut food ingredients, pour you a drink, keep your […]
Feloni Aero’s Felon 1.0 Weaponized Drone
This is the Felon 1.0 from Feloni Aero: a weaponized drone that is going to be used to bolster Ukraine’s defensive capabilities. It has a 5.56 weapon system that allows […]
TonyGPT Humanoid Robot with GPT-4 Turbo
Remember the TonyPi? It is a Raspberry Pi powered AI vision humanoid robot that can take your coding to the next level. It has a HD camera on its head […]
Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?
Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback […]
Video Friday: RACER Heavy
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 […]
Robosen Megatron Auto-Converting Robot with App
Here is another auto converting robot for Transformers fans. The Robosen Megatron transforms from robot to a tank. It has 2 touch zones that you can use to interact your […]
Festo BionicBee Autonomous Robotic Fly
This is the Festo BionicBee: an autonomous robotic fly capable of autonomous flying in a warm. It weighs only 34 grams, measuring 22cm long, with a wingspan of 24 cm. […]
Octopus inspires new suction mechanism for robots
Suction cup grasping a stone – Image credit: Tianqi Yue The team, based at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, studied the structures of octopus biological suckers, which have superb adaptive suction abilities enabling […]
This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership
What’s a secret to getting more students to participate in an IEEE society? Give them a seat at the table so they have a say in how the organization is […]