This DIY robot-mounted laser will entertain your cat for hours
Cats love lasers. Humans love Raspberry Pis. What do you get when you mix them together? A crazy, DIY robot called the trilateral that will …
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Researchers are letting robots push them around
MIT researchers are creating a data set of reactions designed to tell robots how various objects react to pushing. The goal? To train future robots …
Watch this robot solve a Rubik’s Cube with one hand
A post on Specrtrum makes one thing clear: humans can be easily replaced by robots. To wit: researchers have trained a single robot hand to …
Watch this humanoid robot serve ice cream
Robots! What can’t they do?! Well they can’t not serve ice cream anymore, apparently.
Robots: why do we make them?
It seems like every week, Boston Dynamics has some gymnastic bi-ped robot, or a dancing dog opening a door. And they’re incredible, but also impractical. …
Atlas is now a robotic gymnast
Atlas is now as agile as a gymnast, allowing this self-contained little robot to tumble, twist, and dance like a kid at a rave. The …
Not only can robots be gentle, they can gently heal themselves
In science fiction, there’s always the suspense trope of a cold, metallic hand reaching out and grasping someone. And it make sense – metal is …
AlienGo robot now does back flips
Unitree Robotics has just announced an update to its AlienGo robot that allows it to spring backwards like some kind of wildcat. The robot can …
