​ 5 min read Getty Images/IEEE Spectrum You’re familiar with Karel Čapek, right? If not, you should be—he’s the guy who (along with his brother Josef) invented the word “robot.”…

​ 3 min read Figure.ai 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…

​ 4 min read 2023 was the best year ever for robotics. I say this every year, but every year it’s true, because the robotics field seems to be always…

​Ten years ago, at the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trial event near Miami, I watched the most advanced humanoid robots ever built struggle their way through a scenario inspired by…