Open-source mobile network for controlling robotic arms could enable remote medical procedures

A new development in affordable, open-source mobile networks that enables near-real-time control of robotic arms could help ...
Interesting Engineering

Programmable materials create motor-less finger that offers stable positions for robotics

A programmable metamaterial finger can lock into four positions without electronics. A simpler, more functional future for ...
Plastics Today

Productivity-boosting programmable robotic EOAT wins a patent

Each of the four tool holders can use vacuum cups or grippers mounted on individual linear actuators, which can be programmed for as many as 28 separate locations. The programmable EOAT will save the ...
CNET

I Used This Robot Vacuum With a Mechanical Arm for Three Months but at $2,600 It's a Hard Sell

After three months of testing Roborock's ambitious Saros Z70, its headline-grabbing robotic arm is still just a proof of concept. Ajay has worked in tech journalism for over a decade as a reporter, ...
PC Gamer

You can buy a Chinese made programmable humanoid-robot for under $6,000 USD, but it might be the same one that tried to fight civilians

Humanoid robots are doing all sorts of things recently, like playing sport, and being sold for under $6,000 USD. Interesting Engineering spotted the R1, a new human-shaped robot developed by Unitree ...
Computer Weekly

Scottish university claims mobile net breakthrough for remote medicine

Researchers from the James Watt School of Engineering in Glasgow are claiming to have constructed a development in affordable, open-source mobile networks that enables near-real-time control of ...
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Elephant robot bends, kicks, and twists using breakthrough programmable foam skeleton

A new robotics breakthrough could reshape how machines move, adapt, and interact with the world by mimicking biology itself. Engineers at EPFL have developed a programmable foam lattice that blends ...