Collaborate Disseminate
During the late 1980s NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was busy developing the first ever wheeled robot that would roam the surface of Mars. Due to the long round-trip times …read more Continue reading When the Sojourner Mars Rover Nearly Ran LISP
In the Star Wars universe, pit droids are little foldable robots that perform automated repairs on spacecraft and the like. They were introduced in 1999’s The Phantom Menace, and beyond …read more Continue reading Star Wars Pit Droid has a Jetson Brain
[Sergii] has been learning about robot simulation and wrote up a basic simulator for a robodog platform: the Unitree A1. It only took about 800 lines of code to do …read more Continue reading Browser-Based Robot Dog Simulator in ~800 Lines of Code
When the term ‘robot’ gets tossed around, our minds usually race to the image of a humanoid machine. These robots are a fixture in pop culture, and often held up …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: What’s The Deal With Humanoid Robots?
When looking for electronics projects to use in educational settings, there is no shortage of simple, lightweight, and easily-accessible systems to choose from. From robotic arms, drones, walking robots, and …read more Continue reading A New Educational Robotics Platform
The job of processing video after a large event must be a thankless one for whichever volunteer upon whose shoulders it falls, and thus it’s not unusual for talks at …read more Continue reading Steel For Your Fighting Robot
Ever look out at a pond, stream, or river, and wonder how deep it is? For large bodies of water that are considered navigable, it’s easy enough to pull up …read more Continue reading Mapping the Depths with an Autonomous Solar Boat
It sounds like bad science fiction or anime, but researchers are creating helical-artificial fibrous muscle structured tubular soft actuators. What? Oh, tentacle robot arms. Got it. The researchers at Westlake …read more Continue reading Tentacle Robot Is Like an Elephant Trunk
Today, we’re surrounded by talking computers and clever AI systems that a few decades ago only existed in science fiction. But they definitely looked different back then: instead of a …read more Continue reading Animatronic Alexa Gives Amazon’s Echo a Face
A research paper titled Biological Organisms as End Effectors explores the oddball approach of giving small animals jobs as grippers at the end of a robotic arm. Researchers show that …read more Continue reading Pill Bugs and Chitons Get Jobs as Tiny Grippers