Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

A robot does not need to feel emotions for a person to become emotionally attached to it. That is one of the clearest lessons ...

If you’re designing a robot for a specific purpose, you’re probably ordering fresh parts and going with a clean sheet design. If you’re just building for fun though, you can just go with whatever ...

The compilation opens with three AI assistants being given one extremely simple instruction: count from one to 100 without ...

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Robots that utilize springs and latches à la fleas can also travel impressive distances, but they have no easy way to calibrate jump distance—discharging a spring is an "all or nothing" action, said ...

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(a) A robot whose kinematic and morphology model is unknown. (b) Taking photos of the robot under different joint configurations from different view directions. (c) Representing each part of the robot ...