#Robot

From feet to fingertips — we are teaching robots intelligent whole-body control, fine dexterity, and teamwork to complete a broad range of complex tasks.

Breaking the data barrier. Scaling robot policy models with embodiment-free pre-training.

The flaw exposed live camera feeds, stored home maps, and Wi-Fi credentials held in plaintext

People are moving away from corporate controlled tech, and making their own. How the designs of cyberdecks are being driven by women. And how medieval guilds, Luddites, and the Arts and Crafts movement are all connected to our current moment.

The first note in an independent robotics research project: a complete tabletop manipulation setup—industrial arm, two cameras, teleoperation, and a software stack built from scratch—for under €5,000.

The ENPIRE project will be open source ‘so you can host your self-running robot lab at home.’

Humanoid robots generate hype through acrobatics and household tasks, but researchers warn the gap between demos and real-world reliability remains vast.

Stretch 4 robots now assist dementia patients with reminders, medication and mobility in American homes amid severe caregiver shortages. The Marquis family’s experience with Robbie highlights practical gains in independence as markets for elder care…

Duke engineers built Argus, a 20-legged spherical robot with eyes in every foot that moves with near-perfect uniformity in any direction. Scoring 0.91 on a new dynamic isotropy metric, it outperforms humanoids and drones on rough terrain while rejecting…

Silicon Valley's AI boom is moving into robotics as OpenAI, Meta, Tesla, and startups race to give AI a body.

While Argus looks like a sea urchin, its designers took cues from physics, not biology.

The New Scientist Book Club read Silvia Park's near-future sci-fi novel Luminous in May, and had lots of good things to say (along with a few complaints)

A basketball-playing robot won Friends' School in Lisburn first place at the UK-wide First Tech Challenge robotics competition.

With SpikerBot robot from Backyard Brains, kids can design lifelike behaviors and learn neuroscience, no lines of code needed.

The Robotics Dream Keeper Challenge is a newbie-friendly program designed to help makers bring intelligent robots to life using the RDK X5 dev board.

Declining birth rates across the globe are driving an 'unprecedented wave of investment' in robots to sustain workforces.

I typed "Clean the kitchen" into a chat box. A robot turned toward the right room, drove over, swept...

A sea-urchin-like robot could offer a new blueprint for making more versatile robots, research suggests.

Robot news has been coming fast and furious this month. One robot won a half-marathon in Beijing, and others captured a Russian position in Ukraine. And last week, we learned of a robotic arm that beat table-tennis champions at their own game.…