IEEE Spectrum

• Robot Passes Turing Test for Polyculture Gardening May 28, 2023
  I love plants. I am not great with plants. I have accepted this fact and have therefore entrusted the lives of all of the plants in my care to robots. These aren’t fancy robots: They’re automated hydroponic systems that take care of water and nutrients and (fake) sunlight, and they do an amazing job. My […]
  Evan Ackerman
• Video Friday: The Coolest Robots May 26, 2023
  Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDONEnergy Drone & Robotics Summit: 10–12 June 2023, HOUSTONRoboCup 2023: […]
  Evan Ackerman
• Who’s the Coolest Robot of All? May 25, 2023
  Calling all robot fanatics! We are the creators of the Robots Guide, IEEE’s interactive site about robotics, and we need your help. Today, we’re expanding our massive catalog to nearly 250 robots, and we want your opinion to decide which are the coolest, most wanted, and also creepiest robots out there. To submit your votes, […]
  Randi Klett
• Video Friday: Lunar Transport May 19, 2023
  Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDONEnergy Drone & Robotics Summit: 10–12 June 2023, HOUSTONRoboCup 2023: […]
  Evan Ackerman
• Sanctuary’s Humanoid Robot Is for General-Purpose Autonomy May 16, 2023
  We’ve been keeping track of Sanctuary AI for quite a while, mainly through the company’s YouTube videos that show the upper half of a dexterous humanoid performing a huge variety of complicated manipulation tasks, thanks to the teleoperation skills of a remote human pilot. Despite a recent successful commercial deployment of the teleoperated system at […]
  Evan Ackerman
• This Soft Robot Unfurls Inside the Skull May 16, 2023
  An octopus-like soft robot can unfurl itself inside the skull on top of the brain, a new study finds. The novel gadget may lead to minimally invasive ways to investigate the brain and implant brain-computer interfaces, researchers say. In order to analyze the brain after traumatic injuries, help treat disorders such as seizures, and embed […]
  Charles Q. Choi
• Intrinsic’s Flowstate Seeks to Simplify Industrial Robotics May 15, 2023
  The conventional way of adding a robot to your business is to pay someone else a lot of money to do it for you. While robots are a heck of a lot easier to program than they once were, they’re still kind of scary for nonroboticists, and efforts to make robotics more accessible to folks […]
  Evan Ackerman
• Video Friday: AcroMonk May 12, 2023
  Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDONEnergy Drone & Robotics Summit: 10–12 June 2023, HOUSTON, TEXAS, […]
  Evan Ackerman
• Argonne’s Polybot Joins the Self-Driving Lab Club May 10, 2023
  New materials are urgently needed to make better components of the type used for sustainable energy. Technologies like nuclear fusion and quantum computing need materials that can tolerate high levels of radiation or support quantum computing while being safe, cost-effective, and sustainable. But those materials don’t yet exist, and discovering them is a herculean task […]
  Tammy Xu
• Matician Brings a Service Model to Home-Cleaning Robots May 9, 2023
  In industry, it’s pretty common for robots to be sold as a service. That is, rather than buying the robot and managing it yourself, you instead rent the service that the robot provides. This service includes renting the robot itself, but it also includes stuff like installation, maintenance, repairs, tech support, software updates, and all […]
  Evan Ackerman