Penguins are fast, fantastic swimmers, so why not make an underwater robot inspired by them? That's just what German underwater tech company EvoLogics has done, with its new-and-improved Quadroin AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle). Category: Robotics, Technology Tags: Underwater, Autonomous, Biomimicry ..read more

Boston Dynamics has unveiled a stronger, more agile, fully electric version of its Atlas humanoid robot. The kinda creepy-looking thing is already slated to enter use on Hyundai's automotive production line. Category: Robotics, Technology Tags: Boston Dynamics, Humanoid, Electric ..read more

Back in January, researchers showed off the kitchen skills of an open-source Aloha housekeeping robot. Now the Unleashed project gets to grips with knotting shoelaces, hanging shirts and even repairing other robots. Category: Robotics, Technology Tags: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Stanford University, Google DeepMind, Autonomous ..read more

After almost 10 years of often-jaw-dropping achievements, Boston Dynamics has said farewell to Atlas, the world’s most dynamic – and groundbreaking – humanoid robot. Category: Robotics, Technology Tags: Boston Dynamics, Humanoid, Robots ..read more

A new underwater robot can swim through the water with fins, and walk or crawl along the bottom when necessary. These capabilities could really give it a leg up – pun fully intended – at outperforming its traditional thruster-powered counterparts. Category: Robotics, Technology Tags: Postech, Biomimicry, Underwater, locomotion, Swimming, Walk ..read more

A three-legged robot could one day be hopping across the surface of asteroids, searching for valuable minerals. Known as the SpaceHopper, the bot was recently put to the test on a zero-gravity aircraft flight. Category: Robotics, Technology Tags: ETH Zurich, locomotion, Space exploration ..read more

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers have developed H2O – Human2HumanOid – a reinforcement learning-based framework that allows a full-sized humanoid robot to be teleoperated by a human in real-time using only an RGB camera. Which begs the question: will manual labor soon be performed remotely? Category: Robotics, Technology Tags: Robots, Robotics, Tele-operation, Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon ..read more

Following in the footsteps of the GPT-enhanced Figure 01 humanoid we marveled at last month, China's UBTech has partnered with Baidu to give its new industrial Walker S humanoid the power of natural speech and real-time reasoning. Category: Robotics, Technology Tags: Humanoid, Artificial Intelligence, UBTECH ..read more

Inspired by the wheel-bodied battle droids from Star Wars, a scientist has created a robot that rolls along on one big wheel, using extendable legs to steer. Instead of smashing the Rebel Alliance, however, this bot's nimble descendants may one day be making deliveries. Category: Robotics, Technology Tags: University of Illinois, Monowheel, Self-balancing ..read more

A robot called Emo that senses when a human is about to smile and simultaneously responds with one of its own could represent a big step towards developing robots with enhanced communication skills more conducive to building human trust, a new study suggests. Category: Robotics, Technology Tags: Robots, Communicate, LLM (Large Language Model), Columbia University ..read more