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- Boston Dynamics Atlas robot running in a 2025 video
Watch the Atlas robot bust a move in Boston Dynamics' latest video
Boston Dynamics has treated us to a lot of impressive videos over the years and the company is back today with the latest example of its robotics mastery.
Anna Washenko 03.20.2025 - A DeepMind ALOHA 2 robot folds an origami fox
DeepMind's latest AI model can help robots fold origami and close Ziploc bags
On Wednesday, DeepMind announced two new Gemini-based models it says will "lay the foundation for a new generation of helpful robots."
Igor Bonifacic 03.13.2025 - A white, muscle-y robot kicking its legs on a hook.
Can somebody let this robot down?
The Clone Robotics Protoclone has synthetic muscles that let it kick its legs and flex its arms.
Ian Carlos Campbell 02.22.2025 - A Unitree humanoid robot on the floor of CES 2025.
Meta is reportedly working on humanoid robots that help with chores
The company sees its work in AI and AR as giving it a leg up in the nascent field. It eventually wants to build the platform that other companies use in their hardware — essentially, the Android of androids.
Will Shanklin 02.15.2025 - Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Nikohl Boosheri star in the new film Rule Breakers about Afghanistan's first female robotics team.
Trailer: 'Rule Breakers' will bring Afghanistan’s first-ever girls’ robotics team to the big screen on March 7
Angel Studios' Rule Breakers stars Nikohl Boosheri and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Danny Gallagher 12.21.2024 - Three Avride autonomous delivery vehicles parked in a line. They have red flags.
Avride’s next-gen delivery robot ditches two wheels and adds NVIDIA AI brains
Autonomous delivery vehicle company Avride redesigned its robot buggy with a four-wheel chassis, replacing the old six-wheel model. This design enables instant 180-degree turns, effortless incline parking and faster speeds without compromising safety.
Will Shanklin 10.31.2024 - Split pane. Left: a spider-like robot on a brown floor. Right: a four-wheeled robot on a dark gray floor.
These robots move through the magic of mushrooms
Researchers at Cornell University tapped into fungal mycelia to power a pair of proof-of-concept robots. Mycelia, the underground fungal network that can sprout mushrooms as its above-ground fruit, can sense light and chemical reactions and communicate through electrical signals.
Will Shanklin 08.30.2024 - The VERO robot can identify and pick up trash with its leg mounted vacuums.
This vacuum robot dog can find and suck up trash with its feet
A robot dog named VERO can identify and pick up small bits of trash on different terrains.
Danny Gallagher 07.31.2024 - Security robot (screen with wheels and a periscope) sitting in a dark warehouse.
Amazon pulls the plug on the business version of its Astro robot
After less than eight months, Amazon has discontinued the business version of its Astro security robot. Despite being "fully committed" to its home robotics division, the company has pulled the plug on the model that doubled as a security guard.
Will Shanklin 07.04.2024 - The facade of an Apple Store with the Apple logo lit up and surrounded by the shape of the Vision Pro headset.
Apple is developing personal robots for your home, Bloomberg says
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is working on at least two robots at the moment.
Mariella Moon 04.04.2024 - A humanoid robot with glowing eyes standing in a warehouse holding an empty yellow crate.
Agility's Digit warehouse robot understands natural language commands thanks to AI smarts
Agility Robotics shared a demo video Wednesday of one of its Digit robots upgraded with AI smarts. Although that may conjure images in your mind of sentient sci-fi machines taking over the world, the demo video reveals much more plodding, if not boring, work.
Will Shanklin 12.15.2023 - FILE - An Amazon company logo marks the facade of a building in Schoenefeld near Berlin, March 18, 2022. The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorney generals filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, alleging the e-commerce behemoth uses its position in the marketplace to inflate prices on other platforms, overcharge sellers and stifle competition. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
Amazon says its new AI-powered robots reduce fulfilment time by 25 percent
The company claims the technology will also improve safety, though robots in their warehouses have been previously linked to more injuries.
Sarah Fielding 10.19.2023 - The GE Aerospace Sensiworm, a soft-robotic "worm" crawling up a black piece of material. Beige-colored walls in the background.
GE Aerospace is developing a robotic worm to inspect and repair jet engines
GE Aerospace has demonstrated a worm-like robot that could one day inspect and repair jet engines. The Sensiworm (Soft ElectroNics Skin-Innervated Robotic Worm) is designed to serve as "extra sets of eyes and ears" for service engineers and mechanics as they examine the insides of engines.
Will Shanklin 09.08.2023 - A white and black android stands in a shadowy warehouse corridor, facing the camera.
Apptronik’s Apollo is the latest humanoid robot to beat Tesla to market
Apptronik unveiled a new workforce robot today. Named Apollo, the machine is designed to "work in environments designed for, and directly alongside, humans." The android is initially intended to move and carry cases and totes in logistics and manufacturing settings. But the Austin-based Apptronik sees Apollo expanding into "construction, oil and gas, electronics production, retail, home delivery, elder care" and more. Apollo follows Xiaomi’s reveal of the CyberOne robot last year, which looked remarkably similar to the still-unreleased Tesla Bot.
Will Shanklin 08.24.2023 - four squares of screencaps from various application demos for the devices -- VR, basketball, other vr, jump rope instruction
The JumpMod haptic backpack makes virtual leaps more realistic
The untethered device provides a more convincing illusion of vertical movement than today's best VR visual tricks alone.
Andrew Tarantola 08.05.2023 - Split-screen marketing photo of Robosen’s Grimlock Transformers toy. The robot stands on the left and the dinosaur form on the right. They're in front of a dark, black / blue background.
Robosen’s auto-transforming Grimlock will set you back about a mortgage payment
Robosen announced a new auto-converting Transformer today. After launching its self-transforming Optimus Prime in 2021, the company set its sights on Grimlock, the Autobot-allied leader of the Dinobots who changes from a robot into a mechanical T-Rex. However, its 1,699ドル sticker price (a mere 1,499ドル for pre-orders) also allows it to transform your finances for the worse.
Will Shanklin 07.20.2023 - An image of the TartanPest lanternfly killer in action.
Students create robot death machine for invasive spotted lanternflies
The spotted lanternfly may look innocent, but these ravenous creatures have been known to decimate crops, causing more than 500ドル million in damages to various fruit trees since being accidentally introduced to this country nearly a decade ago. Students at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have developed a plan to battle the insects via a robot death machine that targets eggs.
Lawrence Bonk 06.09.2023 - The muppetized Vanessa Carlton robot in a small wheeled vehicle with a piano on Steiner St in San Francisco.
A robot puppet rolled through San Francisco singing Vanessa Carlton hits
In 2002, pop star Vanessa Carlton and her piano "made their way downtown" through Newbury Park in Los Angeles. Twenty-one years later, a team of hobbyist roboticists have brought Carlton’s music to the streets of San Francisco.
Andrew Tarantola 05.10.2023 - Two humanoid bipedal robots reaching onto warehouse shelves to grasp plastic storage bins.
The next-gen ‘Digit’ robot gets a head and hands
Agility Robotics announced an updated version today of its bipedal Digits warehouse robot. Designed to take on repetitive or injury-risking tasks, the new version adds a head and hands, and it can handle a wider variety of demanding workloads than its predecessor.
Will Shanklin 03.20.2023 - Photo inside an MIT lab of a student looking over a spider-like robot with six worm-like legs and wok-shaped "shoes."
MIT’s new modular lunar robot has ‘worms’ for arms
MIT engineers have designed a walking lunar robot cleverly inspired by the animal kingdom. The "mix-and-match" system is made of worm-like robotic limbs astronauts could configure into various "species" of robots resembling spiders, elephants, goats and oxen. The team won the Best Paper Award last week at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Aerospace Conference.
Will Shanklin 03.16.2023