Arquivos de Tag: Robots

Microduck Robots Waddle, Stumble, and Recover During Jensen Huang’s GTC Berlin Keynote

Jensen Huang stood on the GTC Berlin stage Wednesday evening with four small biped robots from French company Pollen Robotics arrayed in front of him. Standing roughly ten inches tall and weighing under two pounds each, the Microducks had already drawn attention when they walked out under their own power. Huang greeted them casually, asked […]

Autowash Rolls Out Kuka Robots That Map Every Car for a Four Minute Touchless Wash

Drivers pull into a bay expecting the same spray pattern every time, yet modern vehicles keep changing shapes, sensors, and contours that older equipment never anticipated. Autowash founders Dennis and Erin Dreeszen recognized this mismatch years ago after building their Denver-based chain of touchless self-serve washes from a single site in 2013 to more than […]

Gemini 4 Argon Helps Robots Learn Cornhole Throws and Trash Disposal From Ordinary Video

Google DeepMind showed this week that Gemini 4 Argon can watch a short video of a person tossing beanbags into a cornhole board, map the arm swing and release point onto a humanoid’s joints, build a full physics simulation of the robot and the board, practice the motion until the hand clears the hip cleanly, […]

DEEP Robotics DR02 Humanoid Robots Guide Traffic Through Rain in Hangzhou Streets

Early October brought steady rain across Hangzhou, packing scenic spots, commercial areas, and event venues with visitors and vehicles that strained local traffic crews. Against that backdrop DEEP Robotics sent a batch of its DR02 humanoid robots into Xihu District for practical trials at busy intersections and tourist sites. Units took positions on Zheda Road […]

Figure F.02 Robots Meet Molten Steel as Arnold Schwarzenegger Watches in Finland

Earlier today, Figure posted a short film called F.02 Decommission and treated fleet retirement like a closing shot from Terminator 2. A humanoid hangs from a chain over a glowing electric arc furnace, gets lowered toward liquid steel, and holds a thumbs-up as the heat takes the frame. Viewers waiting for Figure CEO Brett Adcock […]

BBC’s Towards Tomorrow Asked in 1967 Whether Humans and Robots Could Share One Culture Before the Line Between Them Vanished

Opening a BBC ‘Towards Tomorrow’ special first shown on December 28, 1967 is a warning that mankind may already be obsolete. Population growth, pollution and a planet slipping out of human control could finish the job even without nuclear war. Intelligent machines might have to take Earth off our hands, the narration says, if only […]

Thin Tubes Full of Fluid That Flex Like Living Muscle Are Ready for Robots

A pair of soft white tubes no thicker than a couple of strands of spaghetti rest in a researcher’s hands. They look almost fragile, yet these fibers can pull with the strength of real muscle, stay completely silent while they work, and run for hours on nothing more than a small battery pack. Researchers at […]

Two Humanoid Robots Just Completed the First Live Surgeries as a Team

Surgeons and engineers at the University of California San Diego reached a clear milestone this month. A pair of teleoperated humanoid robots finished two separate gallbladder removal operations on large animals during a controlled preclinical trial. One case paired a single robot with a human surgeon who assisted at the table. The second case had […]