Category: Robotics
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Video Friday: Robot 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 […]
Video Friday: Origami Microflyers
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 […]
Soft Robot Walks by Repeatedly Blowing Itself Up
It’s hard to beat the energy density of chemical fuels. Batteries are quiet and clean and easy to integrate with electrically powered robots, but they’re 20 to 50 times less […]
Newest Roomba Aims for Convenience
Today, iRobot is announcing the newest, fanciest, and most expensive Roomba yet. The Roomba Combo j9+ trades a dock for what can only be described as a small indoor robot […]
Video Friday: Tensegrity Wheels
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 […]
Asteroid Landings Call for Robots With a Soft Touch
How do you land on an asteroid? A lot of very talented engineers have thought about it. Putting a robotic spacecraft down safely on a moon or planet is hard […]
Clearpath Robotics Acquired by Rockwell Automation
Yesterday, Clearpath Robotics of Kitchener, Ontario in Canada (and Clearpath’s mobile logistics robot division OTTO Motors) announced that it was being acquired by the Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation for an undisclosed […]
Cracking the Puzzle of Serpentine Motion
The counterintuitive and sinewy motions of snakes, stingrays, and skydivers represent a strange kind of motion that is notoriously hard to simulate, animate, or anticipate. All three types of locomotion—through […]
Video Friday: Squishable Bugbot
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 […]
Superhuman Speed: How Autonomous Drones Beat the Best Human Racers
The drone screams. It’s flying so fast that following it with my camera is hopeless, so I give up and watch in disbelief. The shrieking whine from the four motors […]