Category: Industrial

  • Elephant Robotics Unveils New Desktop Educational Robots for 2023

    Elephant Robotics Unveils New Desktop Educational Robots for 2023

    In recent years, interest in using robots in education has seen massive growth. Projects that involve robotics, artificial intelligence, speech recognition, and related technologies can help develop students’ analytical, creative, and practical skills. However, a major challenge has been the robots themselves: They are typically big, heavy, and costly. For robots to become widely used…

  • Skywalker Takes to the Sky—and the Ground

    Skywalker Takes to the Sky—and the Ground

    This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. A new air-ground vehicle, appropriately named Skywalker, is able to seamlessly transition between ground and air modes, outperforming competing air-ground vehicles in several key performance measures. Skywalker was put to the test in a series of experiments, which were…

  • Video Friday: Lunar Base – IEEE Spectrum

    Video Friday: Lunar Base – IEEE Spectrum

    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 upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Robotics Summit & Expo: 10–11 May 2023, BOSTON ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON…

  • Metal-Detecting Drone Could Autonomously Find Landmines

    Metal-Detecting Drone Could Autonomously Find Landmines

    Metal detecting can be a fun hobby, or it can be a task to be completed in deadly earnest—if the buried treasure you’re searching for includes landmines and explosive remnants of war. This is an enormous, dangerous problem: Something like 12,000 square kilometers worldwide are essentially useless and uninhabitable because of the threat of buried…

  • Agility’s Latest Digit Robot Prepares for its First Job

    Agility’s Latest Digit Robot Prepares for its First Job

    This morning at the ProMat conference in Chicago, Agility Robotics is introducing the latest iteration of Digit, their bipedal multipurpose robot designed for near-term commercial success in warehouse and logistics operations. This version of Digit adds a head (for human-robot interaction) along with manipulators intended for the very first task that Digit will be performing,…

  • Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots – IEEE Spectrum

    Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots – IEEE Spectrum

    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 upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Robotics Summit & Expo: 10–11 May 2023, BOSTON ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON…

  • 3D Bioprinter Prints Tissue in Situ

    3D Bioprinter Prints Tissue in Situ

    Bioprinting is the use of 3D printing techniques to fabricate tissues out of biomaterials. It is mainly used to create human tissue for research and for drug testing in vitro. When used to create a body part intended to be implanted into a patient, the part must first be printed with a desktop bioprinter, and…

  • Humans (Mostly) Love Trash Robots

    Humans (Mostly) Love Trash Robots

    My favorite approach to human-robot interaction is minimalism. I’ve met a lot of robots, and some of the ones that have most effectively captured my heart are those that express themselves through their fundamental simplicity and purity of purpose. What’s great about simple, purpose-driven robots is that they encourage humans to project needs and wants…

  • Zipline Adds Rappelling Droid to Delivery Drones

    Zipline Adds Rappelling Droid to Delivery Drones

    This morning, drone delivery company Zipline announced a new drone delivery system offering nearly silent, precise delivery that’s intended to expand the company’s capabilities into home delivery. This requires a much different approach from what Zipline has been doing for the past 8 years. In order to make home deliveries that are quiet and precise,…

  • Cat Toys, ToasterBots, and Scolding Lamps

    Cat Toys, ToasterBots, and Scolding Lamps

    The 2023 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference (HRI) is taking place this week in Stockholm, with the theme of “HRI for all.” It’s a good theme, promoting diversity and inclusion, but it’s also a good reminder that all robots have (or should have) some thought put into how they interact with humans. HRI isn’t just for…