By Evan Ackerman Posted 14 Aug 2014 | 17:58 GMT Share | Email | Print Photo: Michael Rubenstein/Harvard University When Harvard roboticists first introduced their Kilobots in 2011, they’d only made 25 of them. When we next saw the robots in … Continued
By Evan Ackerman Posted 7 Aug 2014 | 18:00 GMT Photo: Seth Kroll/Wyss Institute The self-folding crawling robot in three stages. At the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) last year, Harvard’s Sam Felton introduced us to his printed, … Continued
By Evan Ackerman Posted 12 Mar 2014 | 23:40 GMT Really, Kuka? You ot us all excited for this match between one of your cool new robots and a world champion table tennis player. We were thinking to ourselves, “Wow, Kuka … Continued
By Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman Posted 6 Jun 2015 | 13:25 GMT On Thursday, the day before the competition was to officially start, DARPA allowed the teams to conduct a dress rehearsal, putting their robots through the course to see … Continued
By Evan Ackerman Photo: Evan Ackerman Posted 29 Apr 2015 | 11:00 GMT As of just a few months ago, all we knew about Fetch Robotics was that the core team from Unbounded Robotics, all of whom had been at … Continued
By Evan Ackerman Image: DORA Platform Posted 28 Apr 2015 | 17:30 GMT Remote presence robots, as the name implies, act as your stand-in at a distant location, letting you move around and see and hear through a robotic surrogate. Space agencies, … Continued