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Let Robots Do Your Lab Work
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Video Friday: Pedipulate
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Figure Raises $675M for Its Humanoid Robot Development
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 one of the companies working toward a...
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Video Friday: $2.6 Billion
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Anyware Robotics’ Pixmo Takes Unique Approach to Trailer Unloading
You’ve seen this before: a truck-unloading robot that’s made up of a mobile base with an arm on it that drives up into the back of a trailer and then uses suction to grab stacked boxes and put them...
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Video Friday: Human to Humanoid
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Diminutive Deep Sea Drone Dives for Wrecks and Reefs
The global ocean is difficult to explore—the common refrain is that we know less about the deep ocean than we do about the surface of the moon. Australian company Advanced Navigation wants to change...
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Covariant Announces a Universal AI Platform for Robots
When IEEE Spectrum first wrote about Covariant in 2020, it was a new-ish robotics startup looking to apply robotics to warehouse picking at scale through the magic of a single end-to-end neural...
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Video Friday: Many Quadrupeds
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The Heart and the Chip: What Could Go Wrong?
Legendary MIT roboticist Daniela Rus has published a new book called The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots. “There is a robotics revolution underway,” Rus says in the book’s...
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How Zipline Designed Its Droid Delivery System
About a year ago, Zipline introduced Platform 2, an approach to precision urban drone delivery that combines a large hovering drone with a smaller package-delivery “Droid.” Lowered on a tether from...
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Nvidia Announces GR00T, a Foundation Model For Humanoids
Nvidia’s ongoing GTC developer conference in San Jose is, unsurprisingly, almost entirely about AI this year. But in between the AI developments, Nvidia has also made a couple of significant robotics...
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Electroadhesion Heralds New Implant And Robot Tech
Applying electricity for a few seconds to a soft material, such as a slice of raw tomato or chicken, can strongly bond it to a hard object, such as a graphite slab, without any tape or glue, a new...
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Video Friday: Project GR00T
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Boston Dynamics Unleashes New Spot Variant for Research
At Nvidia GTC last week, Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders gave a talk about deploying AI in real-world robots—namely, how Spot is leveraging reinforcement learning to get better at locomotion (We...
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Video Friday: Co-Expression
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Toyota’s “Bubble-ized” Humanoid Grasps With Its Whole Body
When we think about robotic manipulation, the default is usually to think about grippers—about robots using manipulators (like fingers or other end effectors) to interact with objects. For most...
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Video Friday: LASSIE On the Moon
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Ukraine Is the First “Hackers’ War”
Rapid and resourceful technological improvisation has long been a mainstay of warfare, but the war in Ukraine is taking it to a new level. This improvisation is most conspicuous in the ceaselessly...
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Marco Hutter Wants to Solve Robotics’ Hard Problems
Last December, the AI Institute announced that it was opening an office in Zurich as a European counterpart to its Boston headquarters and recruited Marco Hutter to helm the office. Hutter also runs...
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Pogo Stick Microcopter Bounces off Floors and Walls
We tend to think about hopping robots from the ground up. That is, they start on the ground, and then, by hopping, incorporate a aerial phase into their locomotion. But there’s no reason why aerial...
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Video Friday: Robot Dog Can’t Fall
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Boston Dynamics Retires Its Legendary Humanoid Robot
In a new video posted today, Boston Dynamics is sending off its hydraulic Atlas humanoid robot. “For almost a decade,” the video description reads, “Atlas has sparked our imagination, inspired the...
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Hello, Electric Atlas
Yesterday, Boston Dynamics bid farewell to the iconic Atlas humanoid robot. Or, the hydraulically-powered version of Atlas, anyway—if you read between the lines of the video description (or even just...
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Boston Dynamics’ Robert Playter on the New Atlas
Boston Dynamics has just introduced a new Atlas humanoid robot, replacing the legendary hydraulic Atlas and intended to be a commercial product. This is huge news from the company that has spent the...
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U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Comes Closer
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Unlock the Future of Autonomous Drones with Innovative Secure Runtime...
The paper delves into the significance of Secure Runtime Assurance (SRTA) for the operational integrity and safety of autonomous robotics groups, with a focus on drones. It presents a comprehensive...
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Video Friday: SpaceHopper
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This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership
What’s a secret to getting more students to participate in an IEEE society? Give them a seat at the table so they have a say in how the organization is run. That’s what the IEEE Robotics and...
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Video Friday: RACER Heavy
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