Collaborate Disseminate
Grass has got humanity wrapped around its little finger. We carried our favorite grasses with us from the savannahs of Africa as we spread across the world, and even tens of thousands of years later, we’re so desperate to be among it that a house doesn… Continue reading Autonomous mega-mower rips through 19 football fields on a charge
Chinese company Unitree has opened pre-orders on its second-gen robot dog companion. The Go2 can follow you around at jogging speeds, perform some wild gymnastic feats, and even talk to you through a GPT-enabled system that writes code on the fly.Conti… Continue reading Insanely athletic $1,600 robot dog gets GPT-powered conversation option
Arizona’s Revolute Robotics has presented its autonomous Hybrid Mobility Robot (HMR), a whirling, spherical cage that can fly like a multicopter, or roll in any direction using two gyroscopic gimbal rings. It’s one heck of a thing to see in motion.Cont… Continue reading Autonomous, omnidirectional hamster ball robot can fly over obstacles
Chinese company Fourier Intelligence says it plans to manufacture 100 of its GR-1 general-purpose humanoid robots by the end of 2023, making the remarkable promise that they’ll be able to carry nearly their own weight. They also have a unique focus.Con… Continue reading GR-1 general-purpose humanoid robot will carry nearly its own weight
Chipotle has developed a robot that can cut the 50-minute process of making guacamole in half. “The fast-casual chain developed the collaborative robot, or cobot, in partnership with Vebu Labs, a California-based robotics startup,” reports CNBC. “Chipo… Continue reading Chipotle Tests Robot That Can Prepare Avocados To Make Guacamole Faster
An android robot, EveR 6, took the conductor’s podium in Seoul on Friday evening to lead a performance by South Korea’s national orchestra, marking the first such attempt in the country. From a report: The two-armed robot, designed by the Korea Institu… Continue reading Robot Takes Podium as Orchestra Conductor in South Korea
An anonymous reader quotes a report from OPB: Out near the far end of Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula, 83-year-old Jan Worrell has a new, worldly sidekick in her living room. “This is ElliQ. I call her my roommate,” the grandmother said as she introd… Continue reading Would You Leave Grandma With a Companion Robot?
As much as a robot might excel at a certain mode of transport, as soon as conditions change it can become hopeless. Now engineers at Caltech have designed a new robot that can roll around on four wheels, flip them into rotors to fly, or transform for s… Continue reading Transforming robot drives, flies, crawls, stands, tiptoes and tumbles
We all might dream of having an industrial robot arm at our disposal, complete with working controller that doesn’t need constant maintenance and replacement parts, and which is able to …read more Continue reading MeArm 3.0: The Pocket-Sized Robot Arm
What’s better than a pretty nice legged robot? One with an alternate SDK version that opens up expensive features, of course. The author didn’t like that the original SDK only …read more Continue reading Robodog Goes Free Thanks To Unofficial SDK