IEEE Spectrum

• Video Friday: Punch-Out November 24, 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.Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX.Cybathlon Challenges: 02 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLANDEurobot Open 2024: 8–11 […]
  Evan Ackerman
• Imagineer Morgan Pope Uses Electromagnetism to Spark Emotions November 21, 2023
  Most people probably think of robots as cold and calculating, but for Morgan Pope they can be a tool for generating emotions.As a research scientist at Disney Research in Glendale, Calif., Pope designs robots for the entertainment giant’s theme parks. But working as an Imagineer, as Disney’s researchers are known, requires both in-depth knowledge of […]
  Edd Gent
• Video Friday: GR-1 November 17, 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.Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXASCybathlon Challenges: 2 February 2024, ZURICH, SWITZERLANDEurobot Open 2024: 8–11 […]
  Evan Ackerman
• Robot Hand With Working Tendons Printed in One Go November 15, 2023
  A skeletal robotic hand with working ligaments and tendons can now be 3D-printed in one run. The creepy accomplishment was made possible by a new approach to additive manufacturing that can print both rigid and elastic materials at the same time in high resolution. The new work is the result of a collaboration between researchers […]
  Edd Gent
• Video Friday: Beyond the Limit November 10, 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.IEEE SSRR 2023: 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPANHumanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXASCybathlon Challenges: 2 […]
  Evan Ackerman
• Watch This Giant Chopstick Robot Handle Boxes With Ease November 7, 2023
  Although robots are already in warehouses, shuffling small items between bins for shipping or storage, they have yet to take over the job of lugging big, heavy things. And that’s just where they could be of the most use, because lugging is hard for people to do.Several companies are working on the problem, and there’s […]
  Evan Ackerman
• Robots and the Humans Who Make Them November 4, 2023
  When IEEE Spectrum editors are putting together an issue of the magazine, a story on the website, or an episode of a podcast, we try to facilitate dialogue about technologies, their development, and their implications for society and the planet. We feature expert voices to articulate technical challenges and describe the engineering solutions they’ve devised […]
  Harry Goldstein
• Video Friday: Robots for Humanity November 3, 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.IEEE SSRR 2023: 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPANHumanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXASCybathlon Challenges: 2 […]
  Evan Ackerman
• Video Friday: ChatSpot October 27, 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.IEEE SSRR 2023: 13–15 November 2023, FUKUSHIMA, JAPANHumanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS.Cybathlon Challenges: 02 […]
  Evan Ackerman
• Roombas at the End of the World October 26, 2023
  Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a permanent scientific research base located at what is arguably the most isolated place on Earth. During the austral summer, the station is home to about 150 scientists and support staff, but during the austral winter, that number shrinks to just 40 or so, and those people are completely isolated […]
  Evan Ackerman