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Over the past couple of decades, one of the most actively depressing environmental stories has undoubtedly been the Great Barrier Reef. The world’s premiere region for coral growth is also a center of biodiversity, and helps drive many large-scale oceanic cycles—and a combination of global warming and ocean acidification has …

If you’re looking to level up your hardware and programming skills, this isn’t just another build-it-yourself gadget—it’s a robotics and AI training ground disguised as a four-legged companion.The PiDog programmable robot kit challenges you to assemble and code a Raspberry Pi–powered dog that can respond to commands, recognize faces, and …

Google could be readying itself for the home robot market. According to a new patent, the tech giant has been working on a bot that moves autonomously throughout the home and can chat with family members and respond to queries. It might even be able to help with physical tasks. The …

As automakers and climate-focused legislators continue to push electric vehicle adoption, they’ll need all the help they can get. If the idea of using public EV charging cables gives you pause, Hyundai and Kia have developed the Automatic Charging Robot. Shown off online last week, Hyundai Motor Group’s ACR aims …

(Image: Tesla)When Elon Musk first boasted about Tesla’s upcoming humanoid robot at AI Day 2021, details were fairly limited. We knew Optimus’ basic specs (height, weight, carrying capacity, etc.) but little about its internals, and its stated purpose was simply to perform “dangerous, repetitive, boring tasks.” Now we have a …

(Photo: Northwestern University)Engineers at Northwestern University have created micro-robots that mimic the peekytoe crab—but on an almost unbelievably smaller scale.  The half-millimeter “crabs” constitute the world’s smallest remote-control robots. Smaller than a flea, they’re able to walk along the edge of a penny or thread a sewing needle. Despite (or …

(Image: Tesla)Like it or not, humanoid robots are here. Optimus, a human-like droid powered by AI, is Elon Musk’s latest project—one he insists will be worth more than Tesla’s current vehicle business.  Musk originally unveiled the concept for Optimus (the nickname for what’s otherwise called Tesla Bot) at the company’s …

  Boston Dynamics has spent years posting creepy videos of lifelike robots, but it started selling its first real product last year in the form of a $75,000 robot dog called Spot. Now, the company has unveiled its second production model robot, and the first designed for commercial warehouse applications. …

  We’ve all been laser-focused on Mars as a site for future human outposts, but let’s not forget about the Moon. It’s only marginally less habitable than Mars right now, and it’s a lot closer. Thanks to radiation and temperature variation, however, the safest place for a long-term human presence …

    (Credit: onurdongel/Getty Images)New work in robotics research at MIT suggests that long-term bottlenecks in robot responsiveness could be alleviated through the use of dedicated hardware accelerators. The research team also suggests it’s possible to develop a general methodology for programming robot responsiveness to create specific templates, which would …