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iRobot’s New Braava Jet Is Their Cheapest Robot Yet
Image: iRobot iRobot is famous for their round floor-cleaning Roombas, but they also have a second lineup of robots dubbed Braava. Braava is a lower-tech version of the Roomba designed to tackle dirt...
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SoftBank And Microsoft Team Up To Better Pepper
Image: Aldebaran Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank is teaming up with Microsoft to power the next generation of Pepper robots through cloud services. The partnership entails a new customer...
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There’s an art to internet arguing, and it’s not as sporadic as one may think. To help you argue effectively on the internet, the “queen of shitty robots” and maker of the world’s most practical...
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Stanford’s New Drone Can Climb Up Walls When It’s Not Flying
Image: Stanford Drones are presented with a major problem because of their low endurance and susceptibility to uneven landing zones, but Stanford’s new SCAMP or Stanford Climbing and Aerial Maneuvering...
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Google Is Selling Boston Dynamics Because Robots Aren’t Profitable
Image: Boston Dynamics Three years ago, Google acquired robotics company Boston Dynamics. Today, Google is in plans to sell the company off. A report from Bloomberg, including anonymous sources,...
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Compiler: Google Selling Boston Dynamics, Robots Pulling Cars, And More
Compiler is a weekly article that gathers the best stories on robots and drones from the past week. From stories on our blog to other popular sites, here are the week’s best stories you don’t want to...
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Apple’s Liam Robot Will Deconstruct Your iPhone For Parts
Image: Apple Aside from their new iPhone model, Apple revealed a rather odd piece of technology at their annual March event held in Cupertino, CA. They call it Liam and it’s a robotic arm designed to...
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Researchers Have Made A Robotic Hand As Good As Our Own
Image: YouTube Robots just can’t get a grip on things. The development of dexterous robotic grippers has drastically evolved over the past decade. Old school designs made from clunky materials and...
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MIT’s Artistic Drone Can Draw What You Draw
Image: MIT Media Lab Since the dawn of man, drawings have been put forth on a multitude of mediums. Cave, canvas, and computer. Much of these works derive from the movement of the human hand, but...
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nuTonomy Is Working On Autonomous Taxis For Singapore
Image: nuTonomy The “driverless race” is here. Tech giants like Google, Uber, and Tesla are in a race against each other to rollout the first autonomous cars across major cities. nuTonomy, a smaller...
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Compiler: Artistic Drones, Autonomous Taxis, And More
Compiler is a weekly article that gathers the best stories on robots and drones from the past week. From stories on our blog to other popular sites, here are the week’s best stories you don’t want to...
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Things Get Awkward When A Robot Asks You To Touch Its Butt
Image: Stanford University Robots and their very clever mix of hardware and software can leave us thinking they’re more than just machines. So much so that it gets a little weird in certain cases....
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Flying Gripper Sucks Things Up And Then Spits Its Out
Image: Festo Who said drone deliveries had to be handled by multirotors? While that may seem to be the popular design philosophy behind many drone delivery projects, Festo has a radically different...
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Alphabet’s Latest Robot Is All About The Legs
Image: YouTube/mehdi_san While Alphabet may be looking to sell off Boston Dynamics due to a lack of “marketable products,” the parent company still has a number of robotics companies under its...
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Dispatch Joins The Delivery Robot Trend, Raises Seed Round Led By Andreessen...
The race to deliver by robot is on. A San Francisco-based startup, Dispatch, has joined the ground delivery trend with their robot, Carry. The startup, founded by a team of roboticists from MIT,...
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Sharp’s Robot Smartphone Costs A Fat $1,800
Image: Sharp Last year, Sharp unveiled their ludicrous reinvention of the smartphone dubbed RoBoHoN. It’s a robot melded in the shape of a humanoid but offering the same functionality of a smartphone...
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Compiler: Sharp’s Robot Smartphone, Dispatch Ground Delivery, And More
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The Root Of Teaching Kids How To Code
Image: Wyss Institute at Harvard University The storm of code-teaching robots is brewing. Computing is the fastest growing chapter in STEM, but the problem is that education in this part is abysmal or,...
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DFRobot Launches Antbo To Make Coding Cakewalk
Image: DFRobot Amidst the realm of kid-friendly robots is DFRobot’s newly-launched Antbo. Antbo, which awkwardly merges “ant” and “robot” to sound as one word, is an ant-inspired robotics kit marching...
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Zipline Is A Startup Launching Drones To Save Lives
Image: Zipline There’s much to be said about drones. Recent stories of the unmanned aircraft crashing into passenger planes or chopping body parts have painted the new technology a bad image, but a...
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