Category: #Robots

On Tuesday, the New York Police Department reportedly unleashed Spot, the state-of-the-art robotic dog from Boston Dynamics, to do reconnaissance at a home invasion crime…

University of California San Diego engineers have created a soft quadruped robot that doesn’t require any electronics to work. The robot only needs a constant…

Picking up laundry: a better task for Spot the Boston Dynamics robot dog than whatever uses the authorities will dream up for it. Now that…

Ice is an abundant material in the solar system and researchers are exploring whether it can be used to build and repair robots. University of…

The New York Police Department’s new robot dog will receive a special robotic arm for opening doors and moving objects next month, according to a…

From Reuters: The town of Takikawa, on the northern island of Hokkaido, purchased and installed two Monster Wolf robots after bears were found roaming neighbourhoods…

When humans are talking, typically, eye contact is something we do intuitively to show that we are involved and interested in the conversation. Researchers at…

Engineers from the University of California San Diego have created a new squid-like robot that can operate in the ocean untethered. The robot propels itself…

<p>The coronavirus pandemic has seen an increase in companies looking for robots to support human manual labour</p> Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/boston-dynamics-automation-robot-packing-disrupt-2020-b514101.html Proactive Computing found this story and…

A self-proclaimed alien hunting expert believes he has discovered a 16-meter tall alien robot hiding out in extraterrestrial enthusiasts’ Mecca, the mysterious Area 51. Scott…

Remember engineer Shane Wighton of Stuff Made Here who impressed the Internet with his robotic basketball backboard that helps the ball into the hoop? Now…

‘There is a growing body of evidence that automation is disproportionately impacting women, with the overwhelming majority of high paid, high-tech jobs taken up by…

A humanoid robot, apparently modeled after the average Russian woman, has begun providing services to the public at a government office in Perm, a large…

Researchers at Festo have announced the creation of a new bionic project called the “BionicSwift.” The robotic bird can fly using artificial feathers. The researchers…

BBC Earth’s “Spy in the Wild” series (also on PBS) uses animatronic animals outfitted with miniature cameras to capture wildlife close up. In this gripping…

Boston Dynamics’ robot dog, Spot, has been put up for sale to businesses, offering a four-legged – and somewhat creepy – way to integrate a…

While we’re preparing to launch a six-wheeled robotic rover roughly the size of a car to explore Mars, future planetary exploration and science missions could…

Robot cars were already helping transport medicine. Now, robot dogs are helping protect healthcare workers from the coronavirus. Spot, a four-legged robot from robotics company…

The big climax arrives in Act Three. There’s an uprising, as the robots take over the factory that created them. By the Epilogue, humankind is…

Robotic employees such as hotel concierges and English teachers are nothing new in Japan, but here is its first robotic bartender. QBIT Robotics created this…

Jellyfish are the most efficient swimmers in the ocean, albeit fairly slow ones. Researchers at Stanford University made a jellyfish swim three times faster by…