Video Friday: Digit Learns to Deadlift
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…
Read summary →Academic research, papers, and conferences — curated from top sources.
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…
Read summary →Claire chatted to Rich Walker from Shadow Robot Company about their advanced robotic hands for research and industry. Rich Walker has been…
Read summary →Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they…
Read summary →The amazing and frustrating thing about robots is that they can do almost anything you want them to do, as long as you know how to ask prop…
Read summary →We’re excited to launch our new series, where we’ll be speaking with leading researchers to explore the breakthroughs driving AI and the re…
Read summary →Claire chatted to Simona Aracri from National Research Council of Italy about innovative robot designs for oceanography and environmental m…
Read summary →ZTASP is a mission-scale assurance and governance platform designed for autonomous systems operating in real-world environments. It integra…
Read summary →In the latest in our series of interviews meeting the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants, we caught up with Aniket Roy to find out…
Read summary →Researchers have made a Wi-Fi receiver that’s tough enough to work inside a nuclear reactor. They hope the receiver might be part of a wire…
Read summary →Engineers have long tried to mimic life. They’ve built machine learning algorithms modeled after the human brain, designed machines that wa…
Read summary →This short paper has been prepared to introduce the topic of Robotics and the Blue Economy: Sustainable Growth in the Ocean Space, which is…
Read summary →Wednesday 25th March 2026 The European robotics community will descend upon Birmingham’s International Convention Centre (ICC) in Marc…
Read summary →WHEN KYIV-BORN ENGINEER Yaroslav Azhnyuk thinks about the future, his mind conjures up dystopian images. He talks about “swarms of autonomo…
Read summary →ERF2026 kicked off with a full day of activity, setting the stage for collaboration and innovation in robotics. The morning focused on exhi…
Read summary →A technical examination of the sensing, motion control, power, and thermal challenges facing humanoid robotics engineers — with component-l…
Read summary →Schematic showing the materials used in the sensor and the sensing array on a robotic manipulator. Figure from Multiscale-structured miniat…
Read summary →Claire chatted to Alan Winfield from the University of the West of England about developing new standards for ethics and transparency in ro…
Read summary →Claire chatted to Maria Guix from the University of Barcelona about combining electronics and biology to create biohybrid robots with emerg…
Read summary →Illustration of the radiotherapy room and the occlusion problem faced by ceiling-mounted cameras in this application. What was the topic of…
Read summary →Self-driving cars often struggle with situations that are commonplace for human drivers. When confronted with construction zones, school bu…
Read summary →Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekl…
Read summary →Claire chatted to Jamie Palmer from Icarus Robotics about building a robotic labour force to perform routine and risky tasks in orbit. Jami…
Read summary →By Gerard Dooly, University of Limerick Plastic pollution is one of those problems everyone can see, yet few know how to tackle it effectiv…
Read summary →Image taken from the YouTube video created by the authors (see below). A system developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo lets…
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