Top news of the week: 08.10.2022.
The Bionic-Hand Arms Race
In 2019, Florida's Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) released some cool plastic concepts of Nadia—a humanoid designed from the ground up to perform useful tasks at human speed ...
What Do Robotics Experts Think Of Tesla's Optimus Robot ... ›
Last Friday, 30 September, Tesla introduced several prototypes of its new humanoid robot, Optimus. After a year of speculation, many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream. Reactions ...
The real humanoid robots to watch.
Ok, there was an Optimus robot, so well done team! But it's a perpetual betabot and it's been interesting seeing so many in the robotics community give Elon the gift of constructive ...
Tesla’s Optimus robot isn’t very impressive – but it may be a sign of better things to come
Instead, they are machines designed to carry out a specific purpose, like the industrial robots used in factories or the robot vacuum cleaner you might have in your house. The …
Experts’ judgment on the much-hyped Tesla Bot: Elon Musk speedruns robotics 101
Here’s what the experts made of Elon Musk’s Tesla bot
Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot can shuffle across stage, ‘raise the roof’
The robot waved at audience members, and briefly "raised the roof," but stopped short of any in-person capability demonstrations.
Robot makers including Boston Dynamics pledge not to weaponize their creations
The letter doesn’t stop the robots being used by law enforcement and the military for other purposes
Boston Dynamics and other industry heavyweights pledge not to build war robots
Boston Dynamics, along with five other industry leaders announced on Thursday that they will not pursue, or allow, the weaponization of their robots, according to a non-binding, open letter ...