Robotics

This Flying Biped Can Skateboard and Slackline

IEEE Spectrum: Back in February of 2019, we wrote about a sort of humanoid robot thing (?) under development at Caltech, called Leonardo. LEO combines lightweight bipedal legs with torso-mounted thrusters powerful enough to lift the entire robot off the ground,…

Amazon’s Astro robot uses fear to get into your home

Wired UK: The future of home robotics wasn’t supposed to be this dumb. We were promised K-9 companions, Baymax best mates, tiny droids with built-in projectors and nights out with Bender, the ultimate party robot. Instead, we got several different incarnations…

How DeepMind Is Reinventing the Robot

IEEE Spectrum: Artificial intelligence has reached deep into our lives, though you might be hard pressed to point to obvious examples of it. Among countless other behind-the-scenes chores, neural networks power our virtual assistants, make online shopping recommendations, recognize people in our snapshots, scrutinize our banking transactions for evidence of…

Battery bends and stretches like a snake

E&T Magazine: Korean researchers have developed a safe, flexible and stretchable battery capable of smooth movement which mimics the motion of snake scales. The device could have a range of applications in soft robotics and wearable devices. A snake’s individual scales,…