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Wheels and tracks are common choices for robot propulsion, but they’re not the only game in town. You can do some nifty things with long extruded screws , and they …read more Continue reading Build Yourself A Screw Propelled Robot To Tackle The Dirt
Traditionally, robot arms have been controlled either by joysticks, buttons, or very carefully programmed routines. However, for [Narongporn Laosrisin’s] homebrew build, they decided to go with gesture control instead. The …read more Continue reading Gesture-Controlled Robot Arm Is A Nifty Educational Build
There are a lot of hobby and educational robots that have a similar form factor: a low, wide body with either wheels or tracks for locomotion. When [Alexander Kirilov] wanted …read more Continue reading Robot Goes to Summer Camp
There’s yet another technological revolution happening, reports the Los Angeles Times. Bowling alleys across America “are ditching traditional pinsetters — the machines that sweep away and reset pins — in favor of contraptions that employ s… Continue reading America’s Bowling Pins Face a Revolutionary New Technology: Strings
The founder of Chipotle is opening a new endeavor called Kernel, a vegetarian fast-casual restaurant that will be operated mostly by robots. Steve Ells is opening at least 15 locations of Kernel, the first by early 2024; the remainder are on track for … Continue reading NYC Will Soon Be Home To 15 Robot-Run Vegetarian Restaurants From Chipotle’s Founder
A professor of religion at Columbia University writes, “I do not think human beings are the last stage in the evolutionary process.”
Whatever comes next will be neither simply organic nor simply machinic but will be the result of the increasingly sym… Continue reading Could AI and Tech Advancements Bring a New Era of Evolution?
What do you get when you mix rigid and elastic polymers with a laser-scanning 3D printing technique? If you are researchers at ETH Zurich, you get robot hands with bones, …read more Continue reading Robot Hand Has Good Bones
We’ve seen plenty of first-person view (FPV) robots built using the Raspberry Pi Zero, but this one from [Shane] has an interesting twist: rather than directly driving the wheels from …read more Continue reading Pi Zero FPV Robot Uses Tiny Motor & Gears
A robot in a South Korea distribution center crushed a man to death after the machine apparently failed to differentiate him from the boxes of produce it was handling. The Guardian reports: The man, a robotics company worker in his 40s, was inspecting … Continue reading Robot Crushes Man To Death After Misidentifying Him As a Box
The 2023 Halloween Contest might be over, but we saw some great entries and clever modifications bringing projects into the Halloween spirit. One of them is Creepsy by [Hazal Mestci], …read more Continue reading 2023 Halloween Hackfest: Meet Creepsy, The Robotic People-Seeking Ghost