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Watch a robot make a prettier omelet than you can From cracking eggs to scrambling to cooking, this robot has mastered the tricky art of omelets.
Picking strawberries may seem simple, but it has proven surprisingly difficult for even the most sophisticated of robots.
It’s designed to be strong and easy to build, using a minimal number of parts that are all available online, which makes ...
Imagine standing in an elevator as the doors begin to close and suddenly seeing a couple at the end of the corridor running toward you. Even before they call out, you know from their pace and body ...
Robotics kits are a great way to get folks , young and old, interested in hacking and learning the basics. Quite often, the cost puts them off – it’s no fun if you mess things up while learning how to ...
[Will] from Revolt Lab needed a project to get the summer campers he supervises interested in electronics, but when your audience is 5 years old, your subject matter had better be simple, yet ...
Robots make everything look easy, but there's actually a lot of work going on under the hood to make even simple tasks happen. But through impeccable design, practice, and some good programming, they ...
In what may be the birth of cheap, easy-to-make robots, researchers have created complex machines that transform themselves from little more than a sheet of paper and plastic into walking automatons.
A computer following the rules of evolution has produced offspring for the first time, designing and making simple robots with minimal help from humans. The process could eventually revolutionize ...
Robot self-awareness is one step closer today after engineers at Columbia University built a robotic arm that can imagine itself. The ability to recognise the self and imagine that self in different ...
Robots at the Technical University of Munich can make simple foods like sandwiches by inferring the steps required and performing them based on video data.