Robotics
Humanoid robots, autonomous systems, drone technology, and the automation revolution reshaping industry.
9 articles
Optical Tech Would Update a Robot’s AI on the Fly
Atop a lab bench, Cornell Tech postdoctoral researcher Yifan He positions the lens of an optical receiver almost a meter away from an LED emitting a beam of red light. The computer monitor attached to...
Video Friday: An Italian Humanoid Comes to Life
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 month...
This Graduate Student Equips NASA’s Robots With Assembly Skills
Like many engineers, Sarah Downs says she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM career from a young age. As a teenager, she discovered robotics through her Tulsa, Okla., middle school’s First Lego League t...
Video Friday: Your Robot Surgeon Will See You Now
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 month...
How to Make an Invisible Drone
There are many words that I would never, ever use to describe a drone. Stealthy. Subtle. Whatever the opposite of obnoxious is. Much of this is because of the giant angry bee sound that drones tend to...
Building a Foundation Stack for General-Purpose Robots
This article is brought to you by X Square Robot . Large language models gave artificial intelligence a working recipe. Pretrain a large model on broad data, and general capability follows. Robotics h...
Video Friday: A World Cup for Robots
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 mont...
Tesla Optimus Gen 3: The Robot That Will Replace Workers
Tesla's third-generation humanoid robot can now perform 40% of factory tasks autonomously. We tested it — here's our full report.
Inside Amazon's Fully Robotic Warehouse: Zero Human Workers
Amazon's newest facility in Texas operates 24/7 with no human employees on the floor. We got exclusive access — here is what we found.