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  • Video Friday: Robot Decommissioning Takes a Fun Turn

    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 next few months.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics2 min read
  • This Disembodied Hand Is All the Robot You Need

    A hand attached to the end of an arm is a given for most humans, but what if robots didn’t have to play by the same rules as we do? Researchers from ETH Zurich have turned an off-the-shelf robotic hand into a completely self-contained robot that walks on its fingertips while using those same…

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics5 min read
  • Atlas Robot’s New Hand May Outperform Human-Like Designs

    Today, Boston Dynamics is announcing a redesigned hand for its Atlas robot. The previous generation could do some crazy superhuman things with its three fingers, but it was never intended for mass production in the tens or hundreds of thousands.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics4 min read
  • Video Friday: Life’s Better With a Little Robot Goose

    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 next few months.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics3 min read
  • Video Friday: Two Birotors Make a Quadrotor

    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 next few months.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics5 min read
  • Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI

    This article is brought to you by VicOne.Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can a machine remain safe when an attacker changes what it sees, decides, or does even when nothing appears to have failed?As AI…

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics5 min read
  • Video Friday: Humanoid Robot Takes On Monkey Bars

    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 next few months.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics3 min read
  • Robots Are Learning to Feel

    Dexterous manipulation remains one of the biggest barriers keeping robots from successfully tackling a wide range of everyday tasks. A sense of touch could be the key, but a lack of quality data has held back progress.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics7 min read
  • This Robot Will Draw Your Blood Now

    You sit down and put your arm in the cradle. You press a button. The machine takes it from there.A near-infrared light sweeps your inner elbow, hunting for a vein. A puff of alcohol hits your skin. An ultrasound probe glides across your arm, mapping how deep the vessel runs and which way it bends.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics6 min read
  • Cyborg Roaches Can Stab You With Needles

    Imagine you are trapped under rubble after an earthquake and you see an electronics-covered cockroach with a spring-loaded needle on its back scuttling toward you.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics5 min read
  • Video Friday: Digit Redecorates

    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 next few months.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics3 min read
  • Protecting Dynamic Industrial Robot Cable Carriers

    This article is brought to you by Tsubaki KabelSchlepp.In modern automated manufacturing, six-axis articulated robots perform high-speed, multidirectional maneuvers under demanding operational cycles.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics3 min read
  • The Best Way to Explore Lunar Craters Is a Giant Robot Ball

    On a good day, the rock quarry in central Texas is about 370,000 kilometers (230,000 miles) from the moon. But last February, when Rishi Jangale watched his 1.8-meter-wide, 150-kilogram inflatable robot roll effortlessly over rocks, gravel, and wet clay, his imagination turned the quarry into the…

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics6 min read
  • Video Friday: Meet Microduck

    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 next few months.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics3 min read
  • AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes

    This article is brought to you by Ollobot.From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke to them.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics8 min read

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