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NASA's Space Robotics Challenge: The Tasks, the Prizes, and How to Participate
Last year at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, NASA announced a new challenge for humanoid robots: the Space Robotics Challenge (SRC), which will “prepare robots for the journey to Mars.” Just like...
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A 19-year-old made a free robot lawyer that helps the homeless get housing
For the homeless, applying for government housing can be a complicated process. Even if they do everything right, housing is not guaranteed. They need a strong case. Depending on the case and lawyer,...
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Helsinki Tries Self-Driving Buses in Real Traffic
Two small, French-made EasyMile EZ10 buses are now driving themselves in real vehicular traffic in Helsinki. A human being is around, just in case The month long trial, in the south of the city,...
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Is the GOAT robot leg truly the Greatest Of All Time?
As humans continue to unwittingly engineer robots that will eventually lead to our downfall as the dominant lifeforms on Earth, we’ve built a wide variety of robots that can run, climb, and swim. Simon...
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Ford and Baidu Invest $150 Million in Velodyne for Affordable Lidar for...
Elon Musk may not think that lidar is a necessary sensor for self-driving cars, but pretty much everyone else in the inudstry disagrees. With its long range, impressive accuracy, wide field of view,...
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As Ford sets a date, Jibo retracts theirs
Bringing a complex new product to market is an intensive process fraught with problems. Getting hardware ready for manufacturing is often the easy part; it's the software and regulatory compliance...
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Sushi and pizza making robots are among Kawasaki's roboworkers
If you're too lazy to cook, help is at hand. Kawasaki has revealed its latest robot is a dab hand in the kitchen - and can make everything from pizza to sushi. Showing off the new two-armed duAro robot...
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5 Reasons to Start a Robotics Competition Team
You may have seen our blog post from this past Friday on how to get a robotics competition team up and running but you may still be on the fence about whether or not to start a team. Some of the...
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Adorable self-driving robots will start making deliveries in Europe this month
Remember those little six-wheeled robots we told you about in April? They’re now set for a commercial rollout in London and three other European cities. The robots, from Starship Technologies, will be...
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5 Fantastic Sharpening Tips and Techniques
When it comes down to it, a lot of being good at a discipline is simply putting in enough time to know your way around all of the physical processes involved and in knowing a few key tips and...
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Emotech takes $10M to build an AI-powered robot assistant
UK robotics startup and TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 battlefield alum Emotech has closed more than $10 million in Series A funding to continue working on its prototype robot assistant. It’s building...
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Are Robots the Future of the Tattoo Industry?
This video was just released, of an industrial robot tattooing a person’s leg. It was the joint work of Johan and Pierre from Appropriate Audiences and Autodesk’s Pier9. This isn’t the first attempt at...
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The pressure is on to make metallic hydrogen
Randy Montoya/Sandia Labs EMail Print Reddit Google+ In a few highly specialized laboratories, scientists bombard matter with the world’s most powerful electrical pulses or zap it with sophisticated...
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Teensy 3.5 & 3.6
Portland, OR DIY Electronics Teensy 3.5 & 3.6 - Powerful Microcontrollers For Making Awesome DIY Electronic Projects Teensy 3.5 & 3.6 - Powerful Microcontrollers For Making Awesome DIY...
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Living with a prosthesis that learns: A case-study in translational medicine
by Claudio Castellini, Frontiers in Neurorobotics Health & Medicine Learn August 17, 2016 Picture the scene: one day you wake up in a hospital with no memory of what happened and you discover in...
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Robotics Market Map: 80+ Robot Startups Working In Factories, Homes, And...
From factory floors to homes, the demand for robots as workers, companions, medical assistants, cooks and security guards — among other applications — is increasing. Though the spotlight has been on...
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Uber Debuts Its First Fleet of Driverless Cars in Pittsburgh
Near the end of 2014, Uber co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick flew to Pittsburgh on a mission: to hire dozens of the world’s experts in autonomous vehicles. The city is home to...
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Uber"€™s first self-driving cars will start picking up passengers this...
It’s been a while since news broke in early 2015 that Uber was working on self-driving cars. Earlier this year, the company openly admitted it was testing cars in Pittsburgh, but we haven’t heard much...
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Boston Dynamics Founder Marc Raibert and the SpotMini robot will be joining...
In an age dominated by short attention spans, Boston Dynamics has managed to capture our imaginations time and again through sometimes frightening, sometimes adorable and always fascinating robots. But...
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Popular Internet of Things Forecast of 50 Billion Devices by 2020 is Outdated
If you follow discussion about the Internet of Things, you’ve probably heard this stunning prediction at least once: The world will have 50 billion connected devices by 2020. Ericsson’s former CEO Hans...
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