Boston Dynamics Retires Its Legendary Humanoid Robot
In a new video posted today, Boston Dynamics is sending off its hydraulic Atlas humanoid robot. “For almost a decade,” the video description reads, “Atlas has sparked our imagination, inspired […]
OmniVance Robotic Welding System
This is the OmniVance Collaborative Arc Welding Cell: a robotic welding solution that automates tasks fast. You will be able to set up welding sequences in 30 seconds. This robot […]
Mecharm 270 M5 Arduino 6DOF Robotic Arm
Meet the Mecharm 270 M5: 6DOF robot arm that you can use to take your programming skills to the next level. It has a compact design and can take on […]
EEWOC Climbing Robot with Extendable Tape Spring Limb
Here is a climbing robot with a long extending and bending tape measure limb. EEWOC can climb complex steel structures with its magnetic grippers. Its extendable limb can reach over […]
Quadruped-Frog: Continuous Quadruped Jumping with Online Optimization
Quadruped robots are getting faster and more agile all the time. They can already run pretty fast. Quadruped Frog is about optimizing continuous quadruped jumping online. In the past, these […]
Video Friday: Robot Dog Can’t Fall
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 […]
Pogo Stick Microcopter Bounces off Floors and Walls
We tend to think about hopping robots from the ground up. That is, they start on the ground, and then, by hopping, incorporate a aerial phase into their locomotion. But […]
LASSIE Project: Teaching Robot Dogs to Navigate Moon Craters
Robots are going to do most of our space exploration in the future. The LASSIE project involving USC, UPenn, Texas A&M, Oregon State, Georgia Tech, Temple University, and NASA Johnson […]
Sanctuary AI Phoenix Humanoid Robot Used for Sorting Mechanical Parts
This is the Phoenix from Sanctuary AI: a general purpose robot that can be used for a wide variety of tasks. It comes with dexterous human-like hands and max payload […]
Marco Hutter Wants to Solve Robotics’ Hard Problems
Last December, the AI Institute announced that it was opening an office in Zurich as a European counterpart to its Boston headquarters and recruited Marco Hutter to helm the office. […]