Top news of the week: 22.12.2021.
Robotics
Video Friday: Happy Holidays!
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events ...
Robot density nearly doubled globally
The top 5 most automated countries in the world are: South Korea, Singapore, Japan, Germany, and Sweden. Today, China’s robot density ranks 9th globally compared to 25th just five …
Giving bug-like bots a boost
Now, these researchers have pioneered a fabrication technique that enables them to build soft actuators that operate with 75 percent lower voltage than current versions while …
The Future of Robot Nannies
A machine can't love our children, but our children might love them.
Unconventional Space Robots with Stephanie Schneider
Lilly interviews Stephanie Schneider, a PhD candidate at Stanford working on unconventional space robotics. They discuss the challenges and exciting elements of robotic …
Hyundai's MobED robot can elevate its wheels to navigate uneven surfaces
This week, Hyundai unveiled the Mobile Eccentric Droid or MobED, a new mobility platform for taking on even the trickiest surfaces and uneven ground..
Light-Powered Robots Can One Day Help Clean Up Oil Spills
Researchers have developed a robotic film, powered by sunlight, that can move freely on any body of water.
This Robotic Inchworm Just Made It to Higher Ground
The pneumatic actuators and suckers work together synchronously propel to the robotic inchworm forward. Just like a real inchworm, the robot extends its body, attaches its front foot (aka ...