Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Video Friday: UC Berkeley’s Little Humanoid

August 2, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

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@40: 23–26 September 2024, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDSIROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU…

July 31, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Ten years. Two countries. Multiple redesigns. Some US $80 million invested. And, finally, Zero Zero Robotics has a product it says is ready for consumers, not just robotics hobbyists—the HoverAir X1. The company has sold several hundred thousand flying cameras since the HoverAir X1 started shipping last year. It hasn’t…

July 30, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

I’ll be honest: when I first got this pitch for an autonomous robot dentist, I was like: “Okay, I’m going to talk to these folks and then write an article, because there’s no possible way for this thing to be anything but horrific.” Then they sent me some video that…

July 26, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

July 24, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This is a sponsored article brought to you by Elephant Robotics.Elephant Robotics has gone through years of research and development to accelerate its mission of bringing robots to millions of homes and a vision of “Enjoy Robots World”. From the collaborative industrial robots P-series and C-series, which have been on…

July 20, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

July 18, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Cigarette butts are the second most common undisposed-of litter on Earth—of the six trillion-ish cigarettes inhaled every year, it’s estimated that over 4 trillion of the butts are just tossed onto the ground, each one leeching over 700 different toxic chemicals into the environment. Let’s not focus on the fact…

July 17, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Scientists in China have built what they claim to be the smallest and lightest solar-powered aerial vehicle. It’s small enough to sit in the palm of a person’s hand, weighs less than a U.S. nickel, and can fly indefinitely while the sun shines on it.Micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) are insect-…

July 13, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Among the many things that humans cannot do (without some fairly substantial modification) is shifting our body morphology around on demand. It sounds a little extreme to be talking about things like self-amputation, and it is a little extreme, but it’s also not at all uncommon for other animals to…

July 12, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

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 2024: 17–22 July 2024, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDSICRA@40: 23–26 September 2024, ROTTERDAM,…

Video Friday: UC Berkeley’s Little Humanoid

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A Robot Dentist Might Be a Good Idea, Actually

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Elephant Robotics’ Mercury Humanoid Robot Empowers Embodied AI Research

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Robot Dog Cleans Up Beaches With Foot-Mounted Vacuums

The Smallest, Lightest Solar-Powered Drone Takes Flight

Soft Robot Can Amputate and Reattach Its Own Legs

Video Friday: Unitree Talks Robots

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law