Stretch 3 moves us closer to having more realistic home robots.
7 min read The basic design of Stretch stays the same, but Stretch 3 brings a bunch of upgrades to make it much more useful. Hello Robot A lot…
What It’s Like to Eat a Robot
3 min read The University of Electro-Communications Odorigui is a type of Japanese cuisine in which people consume live seafood while it’s still moving, making movement part of the…
Friday’s video features a robot with legs riding a monocycle.
4 min read KIMLAB Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of…
NEW YORK — A robotic tongue will soon be able to lick a gecko
4 min read Cleaning system: Flexiv Robotics; Gecko: Getty Images About a decade ago, there was a lot of excitement in the robotics world around gecko-inspired directional adhesives, which…
The Worldwide Initiative to Create a Universal Robotic Intelligence
The generative AI revolution embodied in tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and many others is at its core based on a simple formula: Take a very large neural network, train…
That Impressive Robot Presentation Might Involve a Person Assisting Remotely
6 min read This robot is very talented, but it's not autonomous. Evan Ackerman Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a couple of high-profile videos of robotic systems…
Three and a half decades ago, scientists harnessed neural signals to manipulate a robotic device.
Using the brain to directly control an object was long the stuff of science fiction, and in 1988 the vision became a reality.IEEE Life Senior Member Stevo Bozinovski and Members…
