Small motors inside tiny robots hit a wall the moment a machine needs a sudden shove. A UCLA and University of Michigan team built around that wall by giving a 98.2-gram platform, 11 centimeters long, 8 wide, and 4 tall, a pair of rear legs that wind up slowly and then fire all at once. […]
NYU Tandon assistant professor Nana Obayashi and Ph.D. student Daniil Filimonov built WorMa so one undulating machine could inspect a coastline, a flooded street, or a wetland without extra limbs or a second gait. WorMa blends “worm” and “mass,” and that mash-up is the entire plan. Five 3D-printed segments form a body about 50 centimeters […]
UBTECH Robotics commissioned its Industrial Humanoid Robot Super Smart Factory in Liuzhou, in China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on September 12, 2026, with a line timed to finish one industrial humanoid every ten minutes and a planned yearly output above 10,000 machines. Fourteen thousand square meters of floor and 13.8 meters of height now hold […]
You already know how a cube is supposed to behave. Toss one onto a table and it tumbles, bounces, and settles on a face. That expectation is the reason this build exists. A maker who posts as The Tinkering Techie spent a few weeks packing motors, a reaction wheel, and a spring piston into a […]
Agility Robotics spent three years watching Digit 4 haul totes for paying customers. On September 15, 2026, the Salem, Oregon company showed what that work bought: Digit 5, a 5-foot-11, 284-pound humanoid built to lift 50 pounds, charge in nine minutes, and share aisles with people instead of living behind a fence. Customers told Agility […]
Crowds in Hall 3 at Beijing’s Shougang Park last week kept stopping at a small tank. A slender golden fish with layered scales was rising, sinking, and turning with a soft flick of its tail. Only after it changed course on its own did most people accept they were watching a machine, not an arowana […]
Honor just launched a $1,500 Android flagship with a folding titanium robot arm that holds its 200-megapixel main camera, and Zack Nelson of JerryRigEverything got one the same week Apple dominated every headline. He expected a concept that barely worked. What arrived instead was a finished phone whose three-axis gimbal hides behind a sliding plastic […]
Steven Gong and his University of Waterloo engineering classmates needed a capstone that actually finished a chore companies have chased for years. Folding laundry looks simple until cloth bunches, sleeves hide, and every shirt arrives in a different mess. Their answer was a pair of follower arms that copied two leader arms driven by human […]
Crowds on Shanghai’s Wujiang Road have a new reason to stall outside the Dairy Queen at No. 169, across from Louis Vuitton’s ship-shaped flagship. On August 29, Sharpa’s wheeled humanoid, North, started a daily shift behind a dedicated counter in that store, making Oreo Blizzards for paying customers on the same machines, cups, toppings, and […]
Agility Robotics posted a short clip this week of Digit rearranging a room, dragging a couch and shifting chairs, bags, and household clutter as if the furniture were just another tote. That demo is the company showing off generalized manipulation: objects of different sizes, weights, and grips, moved through a space built for people. The […]