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Even in the advanced world of 2024, robots are still better in science fiction than in reality. Star Trek gave us the erudite and refined Data, Rogue One gave us the fierce yet funny …read more Continue reading Supercon 2023: Cuddly Companion Bots
Automating tasks with a robot sounds appealing, but not everyone has the budget for an Aismo or Kuka. [FABRI Creator] has a great tutorial on how to build your own …read more Continue reading Mini Robotic Arm Lets You Start Your Own Mini Assembly Line
An Australian news agency is reporting that robot vacuum cleaners from the Chinese company Deebot are surreptitiously taking photos and recording audio, and sending that data back to the vendor to train their AIs.
Ecovacs’s privacy policy—available elsewhere in the app—allows for blanket collection of user data for research purposes, including:
- The 2D or 3D map of the user’s house generated by the device
- Voice recordings from the device’s microphone
- Photos or videos recorded by the device’s camera
It also states that voice recordings, videos and photos that are deleted via the app may continue to be held and used by Ecovacs…
Continue reading Deebot Robot Vacuums Are Using Photos and Audio to Train Their AI
[Leo Goldstien]’s entry into the world of robotics has been full of stops and starts. Like many beginners, he found traditional robotics instructions overwhelming and hard to follow, bogged down …read more Continue reading Tinkering with Klipper: Making The ManiPilator Robotic Arm
Any golfer will attest that the most impressive looking part of the game—long drives—isn’t where the game is won. To really lower one’s handicap the most important skills to develop …read more Continue reading Drive For Show, Putt for Dough
Any golfer will attest that the most impressive looking part of the game—long drives—isn’t where the game is won. To really lower one’s handicap the most important skills to develop …read more Continue reading Drive For Show, Putt for Dough
There are a number of ways to give a robotic actuator a sense of touch, but the AnySkin project aims to make it an overall more reliable and practical process. …read more Continue reading Robotic Touch Using a DIY Squishy Magnetic Pad
Today’s best robotics courses offer hands-on experience with circuits, ROS, Lidar, and more. Continue reading The 6 Best Robotics Engineering Courses Worth Taking in 2024
Autonomous vehicles are said to be safer than human drivers – but would you trust a mushroom behind the wheel? A new kind of “biohybrid” robot moves in response to signals from the nervous system of a fungus.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, Technolo… Continue reading Fungus learns to drive in “biohybrid” robots
A new materials technique has taken cues from Grandma’s yarn bag and cutting-edge technology, and it could see us ‘solid knitting’ whole furniture sets, as well as the fabrics that cover them. What’s more, it can be unraveled to use again in a complete… Continue reading Innovative ‘solid knitting’ machine builds 100% reconfigurable objects