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Industrial robots are shockingly expensive when new, typically only affordable for those running factories of some sort. Once they’ve gone through their life cycle building widgets, they can be purchased …read more Continue reading Industrial Robot Gets Open-Source Upgrade
While fixed sensors, relays, and cameras can be helpful in monitoring your home, there are still common scenarios you need to physically go and check something. Unfortunately, this is often …read more Continue reading A Guard Bot For Your Home Assistant
There are a few things historically difficult to make a robot do. Stairs, of course, are the obvious problem. But realistic blinking behavior is harder than you might think. At …read more Continue reading Never Stare Down a Robot
Virtual reality has come a long way in the past decade, with successful commercial offerings for gaming platforms still going strong as well as a number of semi-virtual, or augmented, …read more Continue reading Jump Like Mario With This Weighted Wearable
“Thousands of stunned guests were on hand Saturday night to watch a Disneyland malfunction for the ages,” writes SFGate — when a 45-foot-tall animatronic dragon burst into flames, and continued burning for several minutes in front of the stunned … Continue reading An Enormous Animatronic Dragon Caught on Fire at Disneyland
While air hockey is a fine amusement, it isn’t much fun if you can’t find someone to play against. Unless that is, you build a mini table with a robotic …read more Continue reading Air Hockey Solitaire
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The New York Police Department is reenlisting Digidog, the four-legged robot that the city faced backlash for deploying a few years back, as reported earlier by The New York Times. NYC Mayor Eric Adam… Continue reading The NYPD Is Bringing Back Its Robot Dog
It’s always great fun to build your own robot. Sometimes, though, if you’re doing various projects or research, it’s easier to buy an existing robot and then use it to …read more Continue reading Design Files Released for the PR2 Robot
Typically, when you’re putting electronics in a robot, you install the various controller PCBs into the robot’s chassis. But what if the PCB itself was the chassis? [Carl Bugeja’s] latest …read more Continue reading Foldable PCB Becomes Tiny Rover
While our desktop machines are largely limited to various types of plastic, 3D printing in other materials offers unique benefits. For example, printing with concrete makes it possible to quickly …read more Continue reading Robot 3D Prints Giant Metal Parts with Induction Heat