Evan Ackerman
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Video Friday: Origami Microflyers
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. IROS 2023: 1–5 October 2023, DETROIT CLAWAR 2023: 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL ROSCon 2023: 18–20 October 2023, NEW ORLEANS Humanoids 2023:… → Read More
Soft Robot Walks by Repeatedly Blowing Itself Up
Rapid explosive actuation powers this insect-scale robot’s jumps → Read More
Superhuman Speed: How Autonomous Drones Beat the Best Human Racers
Processing on the fly gives extreme drones the edge → Read More
Video Friday: RoboCup 2023
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. RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023: 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, SOUTH KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA IROS… → Read More
Video Friday: Training ARTEMIS
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. RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023: 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, SOUTH KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA IROS… → Read More
Pneumatic Actuators Give Robot Cheetah-Like Acceleration
Explosive pneumatic power could push legged robots to high speeds → Read More
Video Friday: Biological End Effectors
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. RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023: 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, SOUTH KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA IROS… → Read More
Video Friday: Modular Polygons
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. RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023: 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, SOUTH KOREA IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA IROS… → Read More
Video Friday: Spot Levels Up
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. Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 10–12 June 2023, HOUSTON RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023: 10–14 July 2023, DAEGU, SOUTH KOREA… → Read More
Video Friday: Autonomous Car Drifting, Aerial-Aquatic Drone, and Jet-Powered Robot
Watch some of the best robot videos from the world's biggest robotics conference → Read More
MIT Multi-Robot Mapping Sets New “Gold Standard”
IEEE conference award-winner turns SLAM into collaborative prize hunt → Read More
Robot Passes Turing Test for Polyculture Gardening
UC Berkeley’s AlphaGarden cares for plants better than a professional human → Read More
Video Friday: The Coolest Robots
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. ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 10–12 June 2023, HOUSTON RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS… → Read More
Video Friday: Lunar Transport
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. ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 10–12 June 2023, HOUSTON RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS… → Read More
Sanctuary's Humanoid Robot Is for General Purpose Autonomy
We’ve been keeping track of Sanctuary AI for quite a while, mainly through the company’s YouTube videos that show the upper half of a dexterous humanoid performing a huge variety of complicated manipulation tasks thanks to the teleoperation skills of a remote human pilot. Despite a recent successful commercial deployment of the teleoperated system at a store in Canada (where it was able to… → Read More
Intrinsic's Flowstate Seeks to Simplify Industrial Robotics
The platform builds on Open Robotics’ efforts to democratize development → Read More
Video Friday: AcroMonk
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. ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 10–12 June 2023, HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX,… → Read More
Matician Brings a Service Model to Home Cleaning Robots
Matic will take care of your floors for $125 a month → Read More
Video Friday: Construction Robots, Automated Indoor Scanning, May the Fourth
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 Energy Drone & Robotics Summit: 10–12 June 2023, HOUSTON… → Read More
Robot Hand Manipulates Complex Objects By Touch Alone
No vision required for these optics-based tactile fingers → Read More