Having already revolutionized the production line, robots promise to transform our lives in myriad ways. Here you'll find the latest advances in robotics and where they are taking us.| New Atlas
If you live in the Swiss municipality of Regensdorf, you may soon be getting packages delivered to your doorstep by a robot. The region is the location of a field test that was just launched by Swiss Post, grocery delivery company Migros Online, and robotics firm RIVR.| New Atlas
We're used to rovers exploring the Moon or Mars to have legs and wheels for moving around, but a team at Texas A&M led by Robert Ambrose wants to go more geometrical with a new mobile robot shaped like a ball for literally rolling about rough terrain.| New Atlas
We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving surgeries. That's all well and good. The space part is certainly cool, sure ... but it doesn't look like us. It doesn't feel human. Continue Reading Category:Robotics, Technology Tags:Dance, Humanoid, Tesla Robot, Figure, Aldebaran Robotics, Evolutionary robotics| Robotics
Boston Dynamics probably has the most show-offy robots on the planet right now, and the company's latest video shows that its robodog, Spot, is no exception. Spoiler alert: he nails a septuple back flip that is wildly impressive. Continue Reading Category:Robotics, Technology Tags:Boston Dynamics, Robots| Robotics
In order for robots to operate safely around humans, they need to see that people are approaching and they need to know when they make physical contact with those people. A new system allows them to do both, using cameras located inside their arms. Continue Reading Category:Robotics, Technology Tags:Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Sensory, Tactile, Touch-technology| Robotics
We've seen robot dogs run up hills with luggage, and help fight fires. Now, researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich are putting these mechanical mutts through their paces on the badminton court, teaching them to play about as well as a seven-year-old human. Continue Reading Category:Robotics, Technology Tags:Quadruped, Robots, Sports, ETH Zurich| Robotics
Although we've seen a number of different robotic water striders over the years, scientists are still finding clever new aspects of the insects to replicate. Recently, for instance, researchers created a strider-bot that zips across the water's surface via fans on its feet. Continue Reading Category:Robotics, Technology Tags:UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, Insect, locomotion, Biomimicry| Robotics
For some time now, we've been hearing about "bistable" devices that can remain in either of two states without expending any energy. A new one, inspired by plant seed pods, takes the form of a robotic gripper which is strong yet easily activated. Continue Reading Category:Robotics, Technology Tags:Sun Yat-sen University, Dalian University of Technology, Biomimicry| Robotics
Instead of going to the time and trouble of designing and building tiny robots from scratch, some scientists are now turning existing insects into remote-control cyborgs. A new "assembly line" could help, by converting cockroaches into cyborgs far faster than can be done by hand.| New Atlas
Though robodogs are available for consumer purchase, most will be deployed to industry and research and maybe even security or rescue. Unitree's latest intrepid quadruped is tough, durable, fast and agile, and is ready for action.| New Atlas
When you think of ceiling cranes, you'd generally think of large steel I-beam girder systems that weigh a million pounds and could probably hoist the concrete foundation right out from under the building. CeiliX, however, has invented an elegant omnidirectional system called the InifnityCrane Skyrunner. Continue Reading Category:Robotics, Technology Tags:Manufacturing, Robotic construction, Robot Factory| Robotics
In a move that inches us just a little closer to the singularity, engineers have developed robots that can grow, self-repair, and morph by absorbing parts from other robots. They can also help their brethren do the same. Continue Reading Category:Robotics, Technology Tags:Robots, Columbia University, Modular Robotics, Magnetic, Modular| Robotics
All of the quadrupeds we cover have rigid one-piece bodies, which seems to be a good shout for most of the antics they get up to. But a flexible spine might be better in certain climbing situations, and that's where the KLEIYN robodog could shine.| New Atlas
