Collaborate Disseminate
What the Flock? It’s probably just some quirk of The Almighty Algorithm, but ever since we featured a story on Flock’s crime-fighting drones last week, we’ve been flooded with other …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 5, 2025
Two weeks ago, it was holographic cops. This week, it’s humanoid robot doctors. Or is it? We’re pretty sure it’s not, as MediBot, supposedly a $10,000 medical robot from Tesla, …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 7, 2025
“Emergency Law Enforcement Officer Hologram program activated. Please state the nature of your criminal or civil emergency.” Taking a cue from Star Trek: Voyager, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency is …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 24, 2025
“Atlas uses a machine learning (ML) vision model to detect and localize the environment … There are no prescribed or teleoperated movements; all motions are generated autonomously online. The robot is able to detect and react to changes in the enviro… Continue reading Watch: Atlas robot is already doing autonomous work – with a twist
Brand new videos on the Tesla and Unitree humanoids perfectly illustrate the different approaches behind these two cutting-edge robots. Optimus is clearly focused on useful work, ASAP – while the Unitree G1 is becoming surprisingly agile and athletic.C… Continue reading Watch: Two very different humanoid robot updates from Tesla & Unitree
Brand new videos on the Tesla and Unitree humanoids perfectly illustrate the different approaches behind these two cutting-edge robots. Optimus is clearly focused on useful work, ASAP – while the Unitree G1 is becoming surprisingly agile and athletic.C… Continue reading Watch: Two very different humanoid robot updates from Tesla & Unitree
A few months back, China’s Robot Era demonstrated the strolling capabilities of its XBot-L humanoid by setting it loose on the Great Wall of China. Now the company has released video footage of two flagship Star1 models racing through the Gobi Desert.C… Continue reading Watch: Sneaker-wearing humanoid beats barefoot bot on Gobi fun run
One of the more interesting and unique robots in the emerging humanoid space has received an unexpected upgrade. Shanghai’s Fourier Intelligence has just launched the GR-2 – taller, heavier, smarter, more dextrous and much stronger than the GR-1.Contin… Continue reading Bigger, stronger, smarter GR-2 humanoid launches with major hand upgrades
The fastest any human has ever run on record was Usain Bolt. He was clocked at a ridiculously quick 27.79 mph (44.72 km/h) when he ran a 9.58-second 100-meter dash. Two-legged robots can run even faster, and it looks really weird.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Watch: Flat out fast two-legged robot designed like a Velociraptor
A quick look around at any coffee shop, city sidewalk, or sadly, even at a traffic light will tell you that people are on their phones a lot. But exactly …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 15, 2024