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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Actuate 2026: 18–19 August 2026, S…
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A central challenge in robotics is building policies that generalize beyond the demonstrations they’re trained on. A policy that succeeds in a training scene...
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Autonomous vehicle (AV) development often relies on separate models for trajectory generation, high-level intent prediction, scene understanding, and data...
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “Covered List,” originally published in 2021, identifies communications equipment and services that it says pose a threat to national security. On 28 July, the FCC added mobile, communicating robots weighing more than 2 kilograms…
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For a while there, it seemed as though robotics as a whole was stuck in a mad rush towards building humanoid robots mostly because it was very possible (and very lucrative) to do so, even without near-term goals that were necessarily realistic. Some of the magic of those first c…
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Director of CSAIL and MIT professor honored for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems.
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The US is banning the sale of robots made outside the country. That includes all the cool ones we've covered out of China, which can dance, provide companionship to seniors, fight fires, and carry loads over rocky terrain.
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Why pay to design and mass-produce a four-wheeled autonomous security robot, when you can make a less costly one with just one wheel? That's the thinking behind the 1Rollo, a monowheel-bot that could soon be patrolling near you.
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At WAIC 2026, China’s newest work robots did much more than pose for cameras. They made coffee and pizza, folded laundry, searched for medicine, played table tennis, worked on production lines, and coordinated with other machines. 🤖 This video takes you inside the World Artific…
Watch on YouTube (opens in a new tab)A practical checklist for interpreting robot demonstrations and comparing task capability, human assistance, operating conditions and sustained use.
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