Marco Hutter is determined to find solutions to the challenging aspects of robotics.
5 min read The AI Institute’s Boston headquarters is brimming with robotics projects. The AI Institute Last December, the AI Institute announced that it was opening an office in…
MIT engineers design flexible “skeletons” for soft, muscle-powered robots
Our muscles are nature’s perfect actuators — devices that turn energy into motion. For their size, muscle fibers are more powerful and precise than most synthetic actuators. They can even…
Electroadhesion is marking the beginning of new technology for implants and robots.
3 min read Soft materials including chicken [left] and tomato [right] permanently stick to hard surfaces just by passing electricity through them. ACS Central Science Applying electricity for a…
Covariant introduces a versatile AI platform designed for robots.
6 min read One robotics foundation model can control many different robots manipulating many different objects. Covariant When IEEE Spectrumfirst wrote about Covariant in 2020, it was a new-ish robotics…
Method rapidly verifies that a robot will avoid collisions
Before a robot can grab dishes off a shelf to set the table, it must ensure its gripper and arm won’t crash into anything and potentially shatter the fine china.…
Figure has secured $675 million to support its development of humanoid robots.
4 min read Figure Today, Figure is announcing an astonishing US $675 million Series B raise, which values the company at an even more astonishing $2.6 billion. Figure is…
El video de esta semana muestra a Acrobot cometiendo un error.
3 min read Daniel Simu Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar…
