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Q&A: Mars Perseverance Rover Distance Record ↗
On October 11, the Perseverance rover completed a drive that brought its total distance traveled on Mars to 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers).
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.
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?
HiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object Interaction ↗
This White Paper gives robotics researchers and engineers an overview of a new large-scale motion capture dataset built to close the data gap limiting humanoid robot learning.
Video Friday: Albatross Falls, Spins, Self-Rights, and Sails Away ↗
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.
Atlas Robot’s New Hand May Outperform Humanlike Designs ↗
Today, Boston Dynamics is announcing a redesigned hand for its Atlas robot.
A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kemp ↗
Building useful robots starts with understanding the people who use them.
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.
Mexican EPICS in IEEE Team Builds Portable Educational Platform ↗
In Guadalajara, Mexico, many high schools have motivated teachers and talented students with an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, but they lack access to advanced tools such as robotics…
Barbara Mazzolai Wants to Build a New Field of Robotics ↗
Throughout her career, roboticist Barbara Mazzolai has turned to nature for inspiration.
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.
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?
Digit 5 May Be the First Humanoid Robot Worker That’s Truly Safe ↗
Despite the recent deluge of videos of humanoid robots doing backflips and kung fu, the actual pace of progress towards humanoids that can do economically viable jobs at scale has at times seemed a bit plodding.
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.
Robots Are Learning to Feel ↗
Dexterous manipulation remains one of the biggest barriers keeping robots from successfully tackling a wide range of everyday tasks.
This Robot Will Draw Your Blood Now ↗
You sit down and put your arm in the cradle.
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.
Video Friday: Digit Redecorates ↗
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.
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.
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.
Video Friday: Meet Microduck ↗
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.
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.
Video Friday: Do We Need Superhuman Humanoid Robots? ↗
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.
Drones With Claws Perch on Arctic Icebergs ↗
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Microspines are one of many ways to enable robots to latch onto surfaces like walls and ceilings.
Is Shipyard Welding the Right First Job for Humanoid Robots? ↗
Humanoids desperately need to stop making YouTube videos and get a job already, and Persona AI is one of the few humanoid companies that seems to be entirely focused on making that happen.
Video Friday: Lift Happens ↗
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.
Robot Recycler Salvages Parts From Broken Machines ↗
Objects constructed by robots are ubiquitous.
Video Friday: Drones Go Heavy in DARPA Lift Challenge ↗
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.
What Robotics Companies Think About the U.S. Foreign Robot Ban ↗
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “Covered List,” originally published in 2021, identifies communications equipment and services that it says pose a threat to national security.
Walden Robotics Partners With Toyota on Practical Humanoids ↗
For a while there, it seemed as though robotics as a whole was stuck in a mad rush towards building humanoid robots mostly because it was very possible (and very lucrative) to do so, even without near-term goals that…