spectrum.ieee.org 2021-12-17 22:30 This Robotic Inchworm Just Made It to Higher Ground This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership... spectrum.ieee.org 2021-11-13 00:12 Video Friday: FridgeBot Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We'll also be... spectrum.ieee.org 2021-11-11 01:29 Flexible Monocopter Drone Can Be Completely Rolled Up It turns out that you don't need a lot of hardware to make a flying robot.... spectrum.ieee.org 2021-11-08 23:03 GITAI’s Autonomous Robot Arm Finds Success on ISS Late last year, Japanese robotics startup GITAI sent their S1 robotic arm up... spectrum.ieee.org 2021-11-05 23:58 Video Friday: Your Robot Dog Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We'll also be...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-11-05 23:58 Video Friday: Your Robot Dog Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-11-02 00:30 Why Facebook (Or Meta) Is Making Tactile Sensors for Robots Facebook, or Meta as it's now calling itself for some reason that I don't entirely understand, is today announcing some new tactile sensing hardware for robots. Or, new-ish, at least—there's a ruggedized and ultra...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-11-01 23:30 Can Feminist Robots Challenge Our Biases? This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.Have you ever noticed how nice Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant are? How patient,...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-10-30 00:41 Video Friday: Robot Halloween Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-10-29 23:20 Atlas Shows Most Impressive Parkour Skills We’ve Ever Seen Earlier today, Boston Dynamics posted a couple of new videos showing their Atlas humanoid robot doing some of the most impressive parkour we've yet seen.There are a couple of new and exciting things in this video....
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-10-28 01:26 Autonomous Boats Seem More Solvable Than Autonomous Cars It's become painfully obvious over the past few years just how difficult fully autonomous cars are. This isn't a dig at any of the companies developing autonomous cars (unless they're the sort of company who keeps on...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-10-22 23:53 Video Friday: TurtleBot 4 Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-10-20 14:22 Drones to Attempt Rescue of Starving Dogs Stranded by Volcano For the past month, the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma has been erupting, necessitating the evacuation of 7,000 people as lava flows towards the sea and destroys everything in its path. Sadly,...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-10-19 00:14 Q&A: Ghost Robotics CEO on Armed Robots for the U.S. Military Last week, the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) conference took place in Washington, D.C. One of the exhibitors was Ghost Robotics—we've previously covered their nimble and dynamic quadrupedal robots,...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-10-16 01:43 Video Friday: ANYmals and Animals Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-10-14 19:00 Boots Full of Nickels Help Mini Cheetah Land on its Feet As quadrupedal robots learn to do more and more dynamic tasks, they're likely to spend more and more time not on their feet. Not falling over, necessarily (although that's inevitable of course, because they're legged...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-10-09 02:38 Video Friday: Dusty at Work Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-10-08 00:05 Autonomous Racing Drones Dodge Through Forests at 40 kph It seems inevitable that sooner or later, the performance of autonomous drones will surpass the performance of even the best human pilots. Usually things in robotics that seem inevitable happen later as opposed to...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-10-07 04:00 Caltech’s LEO Flying Biped Can Skateboard and Slackline Back in February of 2019, we wrote about a sort of humanoid robot thing (?) under development at Caltech, called Leonardo. LEO combines lightweight bipedal legs with torso-mounted thrusters powerful enough to lift the...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-10-06 01:43 See Inside DARPA's Incredible Subterranean Finals Course When DARPA announced that the Subterranean Challenge Final Event would take place in a giant cavern complex in Louisville, and that it would include elements of tunnels, caves, and the urban underground, we had very...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-10-02 00:53 Video Friday: Mini Pupper Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-09-30 02:00 An Inconvenient Truth About AI We are well into the third wave of major investment in artificial intelligence. So it's a fine time to take a historical perspective on the current success of AI. In the 1960s, the early AI researchers often...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-09-30 01:48 Amazon’s Astro Is a Mobile Alexa and Cup Holder that Costs $1k Yesterday, Amazon announced a mobile home robot called Astro, which we've been expecting for the past several years. Astro's got wheels. It's got cameras. It's got a screen. It has two cup holders for some reason. It...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-09-24 22:00 Video Friday: DARPA Subterranean Challenge Final This week we have a special DARPA SubT edition of Video Friday, both because the SubT Final is happening this week and is amazing, and also because (if I'm being honest) the SubT Final is happening this week and is...
spectrum.ieee.org 2021-09-24 02:09 DARPA SubT Finals: Robot Operator Wisdom Each of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge teams is allowed to bring up to 20 people to the Louisville Mega Cavern for the final event. Of those 20 people, only five can accompany the robots to the course staging area to...