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Around this time last year, Chinese robotics company Unitree caught our attention with the impressive circus tricks and GPT chat capabilities of its $1,600 second-generation robot dog. Now the company has wheeled out an all-terrain upgrade.Continue Rea… Continue reading Watch: Walls, furniture and stairs prove no match for wheeled robodog
What is this dystopia coming to when one of the world’s largest tech companies can’t find a way to sufficiently monetize a nearly endless stream of personal data coming from …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 28, 2024
Small robots can be found at all levels from STEM toys for kids all the way through to complex hacker projects. Somewhere along that line between easy enough for anyone …read more Continue reading An RC Tracked Robot, Without The Pain
Many scifi robots have taken the form of their creators. In the increasingly blurry space between the biological and the mechanical, researchers have found a way to affix human skin …read more Continue reading A Robot Face with Human Skin
The US Department of Homeland Security has unveiled a dog-like robot that it says has been adapted to jam the connectivity of smart home devices.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Robot dog trained to jam wireless devices during police raids
Most robots are built out of solid materials like metal and plastic, giving them rigid structures that are easy to work with and understand. But you can open up much …read more Continue reading Supercon 2023: Jesse T. Gonzalez Makes Circuit Boards That Breathe and Bend
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media’s Jason Koebler: The Department of Homeland Security bought a dog-like robot that it has modified with an “antenna array” that gives law enforcement the ability to overload people’s home networks in an… Continue reading DHS Has a DoS Robot To Disable Internet of Things ‘Booby Traps’ Inside Homes
Disney Research Hub has different priorities to other robot developers; its robots need to move effectively and efficiently – but also with a ton of style and personality. This super-cute biped, based on the BD-1 droid, is a perfect example.Continue Re… Continue reading Disney brings beauty and personality into robot movements
It would be better if humans didn’t toss cigarette butts on the ground in the first place, but change always takes longer than we think it should. In the meantime, …read more Continue reading Robot Seeks and Sucks Up Cigarette Butts, With Its Feet
We’ve been going on at length in this space about the death spiral that AM radio seems to be in, particularly in the automotive setting. Car makers have begun the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 14, 2024