Autonomous Navigation
To navigate its environment, a robot must be either remote controlled, preprogrammed in a known unchanging environment, or it must be able to do this autonomously. To be able to […]
Petoi Bittle Robot Dog with App Control
Here is another cute robot that can take your coding skills to the next level. The Petoi Bittle is Arduino IDE compatible and can be coded in C++ or Python. […]
Manta Ray Inspired Soft Robotic Swimmer
In the past few years, we have covered plenty of cool bio-inspired robots here. This soft swimmer is inspired by the manta ray. This is an energy-efficient soft robot that […]
MaXXII Skid-steering Tracked Robot
This is the MaXXII: a skid-steering tracked robot with autonomous navigation and ROS support. It has rubber tracks to take on outdoor tasks. You can add your own sensors for […]
Solo Robot Learning Backflips from Human Demonstrations
Robots are going to become a whole lot more agile in the future. Plenty of researchers are working on perfecting them. Learning agile skills can be challenging but imitation learning […]
IFR: China surpasses U.S. in robot density
Robot density in the manufacturing industry in 2021. | Source: IFR China now has more industrial robots per 10,000 workers than the United States, according to the International Federation of […]
Robot helps researchers achieve a new record at the world's deepest cave pit
A small city in the east of Czechia called Hranice harbors a unique natural wonder that is not (yet) trending on Instagram. The Hranice Abyss is the deepest underwater cave […]
How ROS 2 fixed a robot arm’s latency, jerky motions
Optimax Systems is America’s largest optics prototype manufacturer in the medical, defense, and space industries. Optimax optics are aboard Mars rovers, Pluto New Horizons, Tess, ROMAN, Mercury messenger, the ISS, […]
ABB opens robotics mega factory in Shanghai
ABB opened a new 67,000-square-meter robotics factory in Kangquiao, Shanghai, China last week. The $150 million facility harnesses virtual planning and production management systems to maximize productivity. The new facility […]
Robotic pipe crawlers using maxon DC motors
The crawlers access pipe sections with multiple bends, elbows and vertical sections, previously thought to be unreachable, up to 1km+ from point of entry. The award winning weld inspection system […]