16+ hour, 20+ min ago   (939+ words) Why can a robot do a backflip but struggle to fold a shirt? The answer is surprisingly complicated. A humanoid robot can run, jump, dance, and even perform a backflip, yet ask it to fold a shirt, pick up a…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (494+ words) AEON will learn and validate industrial tasks before factory deployment. Hexagon Robotics and motion technology company Schaeffler announced last month that AEON had entered Schaeffler’s Humanoid Gym in Germany, advancing a collaboration to bring humanoid robots into industry. The facility…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (296+ words) A beach cleaning robot nicknamed the ‘beach dog’, built by Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Hainan Research Institute, has been under trial on the beaches of Sanya in south China’s Hainan province. On the beaches of Sanya in south China, a…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (257+ words) There is a company in Austin, Texas flying cargo aircraft with no pilot on board and nobody on the ground holding a joystick either. It is called Skyways, started in 2017 by a former Google engineer named Charles Acknin. The aircraft…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (98+ words) The exoskeleton is powered by a four-motor HyperDrive Pro system. Hypershell has introduced the Halo full-leg exoskeleton. This is the company’s latest development in wearable robotics. Engineered to assist users across walking, hiking, and tackling demanding, varied terrains, the device…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1209+ words) In our latest episode of Lexicon, Monumental founder and CEO Salar al Khafaji joined us to discuss why construction may be one of technology’s most overlooked industries. From the challenge of deploying autonomous robots on unpredictable building sites to the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (373+ words) Students moved from simulated motion development to physical robots, using Sim2Real tests to demonstrate obstacle walking, K-pop choreography, backflips, and windmills. Korean firm ROBOTIS has launched the Open Humanoid GYM Project, an open-source program giving students hands-on experience developing behaviors for…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (364+ words) The software stores up to 127 robot positions, letting it repeatedly deliver shuttlecocks from different angles and locations. A used industrial robot arm has been transformed into a badminton-playing machine that can serve shuttlecocks for practice. The project repurposes a Denso…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (326+ words) Canadian startup Sami Robotics is taking its multi-arm harvesting platform, SAMI, from broccoli to romaine lettuce, a crop still cut almost entirely by hand. 18 robotic arms, moving at once, cutting romaine lettuce with nobody in the field. This is SAMI,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (445+ words) Infrared light twists the soft ring, storing energy until the V-shaped tail snaps down and launches the robot. Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed soft robots that can repeatedly jump when exposed to infrared light. The teardrop-shaped devices…...