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ICYMI: Kids abusing robots, solar powered balloon and more
Today on In Case You Missed It: A piece of robot news out of Japan has us riveted, mostly because it's internationally understood that kids can be jerks. Researchers there studied how children treated...
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HitchBot’s Demise Proves the US is Not Ready for Robots
In July of 2014, a little robot began a hitchhiking adventure that would take it across the beautiful Canadian landscape, throughout Germany by February of 2015, and back to Boston in July of the same...
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Smoother movements help robots save a lot of energy
Eliminating the herky-jerky movements of robots isn't just good for comforting nervous humans… it helps the robots, too. Researchers have developed smooth movement algorithms that slow the...
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Volvo wants robots to help collect your garbage
To call garbage collection an inglorious job would be an understatement — it typically involves early mornings, monotony and (of course) lots of smelly trash. It's the perfect sort of job for a robot,...
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Why humans prefer robots as flawed as we are
The slick, seemingly flawless robots of our sci-fi dreams may not be the best kind of bots to play with our kids and help care for us when we’re sick, research suggests. CNET News
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8 Arduino Robots You Can Build for Less than $125
Beginner-level Arduino projects, while they can be educational, are often not all that interesting. Creating a traffic light is good for learning programming, but once you’ve done it, its usefulness...
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Robots, Fruit Drums and More: 5 Cool Raspberry Pi Add-Ons
It just keeps on going. Our favorite fruity mini-computer, the Raspberry Pi, seems unable to stop; there’s always something new available, something pretty useful to play with, and new ways of...
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NYT: Alphabet’s reorganized ‘X’ division now includes robots
Last year Google shipped off some of its wilder projects for administration under new parent company Alphabet, which included its efforts with robots and the lab formerly known as Google X. A New York...
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Watch 540 dancing robots celebrate Chinese New Year
Ten robot cheerleaders isn't enough when it comes to celebrating Chinese New Year. To kick off the year of the monkey, Chinese broadcaster CCTV's TV special included 540 dancing robots, with a fleet...
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First We Built Robots That We Can’t Push Over, Now You Want It To Run?
First, we taught robots how to walk and keep their balance, even when we tried to push them over. Now we’re teaching them to run?! Read more… Gizmodo
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ICYMI: Robots, disappearing medical skin and more
Today on In Case You Missed It: We are rounding up a few interesting robot and car stories at the top of the show because simply too much happened since last week to just chose one. The University of...
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Foxconn replaces 60,000 human workers with robots
According to reports, the world's largest electronics manufacturer Foxconn has replaced around 60,000 human factory workers with machines. Or, as a government publicist for the city of Kunshan told...
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These Robots Will Help You Clean and Wash Your House
Back in 1990, three MIT graduates who designed war robots decided to form a corporation called iRobot. Alongside military and police robots, the advanced technology company is probably best known for...
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BuzzFeed and Washington Post turn to robots for RNC coverage
Both the Washington Post and Buzzfeed have sent robots to cover the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Call it forward thinking, call it a gimmick, inventive, desperate… doesn't matter. But...
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Wall-riding robots spin carbon fiber hammocks
You can mock impractical architecture, but there's no denying it pushes design and technology in new directions. Case in point is a project from the University of Stuggart's Institute for...
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The Public Access Weekly: Everyday robots
Tomorrow is International Cosplay Day, so a quick shout-out to all you creative folks out there who spend so much time stitching together costumes to bring fantasy to life: Y'all are rad! It is very...
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LG makes an ‘aggressive’ investment in robots
LG has certainly dabbled in robotics, but it's now ready to commit to autonomy for the long haul. The Korean tech giant says it's "aggressively investing" in robots, with its appliances group leading...
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MIT’s shock-absorbing robots are safer and more precise
Soft robots aren't just about speed and grace… they should be safer, too. To prove that point, MIT's CSAIL has developed bouncing robots whose 3D-printed soft skins act as shock absorbers. The...
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NASA is developing better gears to make tougher robots
Any robot NASA sends to harsh, distant worlds has to be tougher than garden-variety machines. Since every component has to be able to withstand extreme conditions, a team of researchers over at NASA's...
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LG’s next robots include an Echo-like assistant
When LG said it was pouring a ton of effort into robots, it wasn't kidding. The electronics firm is teasing a whole lineup of robots for CES, including one that could theoretically replace your Echo...
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