Unitree released a short video this week introducing the H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian, a full-size humanoid built on the company’s existing H2 platform and positioned for security and rescue work. In the opening sequences the robot climbs onto the roof of a scrapyard car, flips off, then delivers knees, elbows, and punches that leave […]
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Hugo appears as a purple, furry figure with small horns, a blue nose, a flower tucked into its hair, oversized hands, and either embroidered shorts or leather lederhosen. In video released by the Cambridge startup Dynamic Creatures, this bipedal character walks through an office, high-fives engineers, hugs children, and dances while carrying a small backpack. […]
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Visitors walking into the Waltham, Massachusetts shop floor often arrive expecting a loose collection of experimental machines, only to find rows of workstations that already resemble a working production line. Boston Dynamics keeps machining, assembly, and repair in the same building so every Atlas unit can move from raw material to a finished, tested robot […]
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German police seize humanoid robot that allegedly groped teen girl, and phones of young men who had it
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Berlin — German police have seized a humanoid robot after it allegedly touched a 16-year-old girl in an indecent manner and made sexually suggestive gestures toward her. Investigators were trying to determine Wednesday whether the robot’s actions were deliberately controlled by two young men who apparently livestreamed the incident in the western city of Cologne on […]
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Photo credit: Ruochen Hou et al. / RoMeLa, UCLA / New AtlasOld Android phones sitting unused in drawers can now serve as the central brains for a compact walking robot that stands about nineteen inches tall and weighs under four pounds. Researchers at UCLA’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory built PhoneBot as an open-source platform that […]
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First Look at DirectHop, the Tiny One Gram Robot Precisely Hops Over Stairs with Motor Control
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Photo credit: Mark Stone/University of WashingtonUniversity of Washington engineers have built DirectHop, a one gram robot small enough to sit in a palm that clears a standard stair step while setting its jump height to single centimeter accuracy. The prototype performs multiple hops in sequence and rights itself after most landings, steps toward an autonomous […]
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Silk bends, slips, and changes shape the moment a fingertip presses a little too hard. In Suzhou, master embroiderer Fu Xianghong spent a session teaching AGILINK’s OmniHand 3 Ultra the opening moves of a craft that runs back more than 2,500 years: separating a main silk thread into 16 finer strands, threading a needle, stretching […]
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Researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design built a small robot that leaves a drone, spins on the way down, and keeps moving once it meets the water. They named it ALBATROSS, short for Airborne Lander with Buoyant AuToROtating Sailing Sensor. Lead author Shane Kyi Hla Win, working with professor Foong Shaohui, describes […]
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Rolling down a hallway with a shirt slung over its neck, Goose looks less like a factory demo and more like a small appliance that decided to grow a personality. Prototype 1 from San Francisco’s The Robot Works is a white, low, rounded base with a long articulated neck, camera eyes set in a bonnet […]
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Jude Robinson built Daisy as his final year mechatronics project at the University of Glasgow, finished with first class honors, and took the IET prize for the best manufacturing project on campus. Two upright gantries face each other across a short workspace. Each carries a four joint gripper whose V shaped fingers close on a […]