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    Home Robot Safety Is All About Relationships

    The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is updating its 12-year-old safety requirements for personal care robots. A lot has happened since the last revision,...

    How JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science

    Thirteen years ago last August, I was camped out in the Jet Propulsion Lab press room in Pasadena, Calif., waiting to see whether the...

    How to Make an Invisible Drone

    There are many words that I would never, ever use to describe a drone. Stealthy. Subtle. Whatever the opposite of obnoxious is. Much of...

    IEEE Honors Robotics Pioneer Toshio Fukuda

    Toshio Fukuda has been blazing trails for most of his career. He is considered to be one of the most prolific scholars in robotics,...

    iRobot Founder Wants to Put a Robotic Familiar Into Your Home

    Two years ago, Colin Angle stepped down as CEO of iRobot, the company that he co-founded and the most successful home robot company the...

    Is Shipyard Welding the Right First Job for Humanoid Robots?

    Humanoids desperately need to stop making YouTube videos and get a job already, and Persona AI is one of the few humanoid companies which...

    Japan Pioneered Humanoid Robots—Can It Now Catch China?

    “In the future, the relationship between humans and robots will deepen, and the distinction between them will probably disappear.” This prediction, from one of...

    Mexican EPICS in IEEE Team Builds Portable Educational Platform

    In Guadalajara, Mexico, many high schools have motivated teachers and talented students with an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, but they lack...

    Open-Source Software Is Starting to Help Robots Think

    When a group of academics started making open-source robotics hardware, a generation of roboticists got years of their lives back. Now, the bigger challenge...

    Optical Tech Would Update a Robot’s AI on the Fly

    Atop a lab bench, Cornell Tech postdoctoral researcher Yifan He positions the lens of an optical receiver almost a meter away from an LED...

    Proposed Chinese Robot Ban Is Latest U.S. Tech Sovereignty Move

    The American Security Robotics Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in March by Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Representative Elise Stefanik...

    Q&A: Mars Perseverance Rover Distance Record

    On October 11, the Perseverance rover completed a drive that brought its total distance traveled on Mars to 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers). This is...

    Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI

    This article is brought to you by VicOne.Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises...

    Robot Finger Feels in Color

    Imagine running your fingertip over the surface of a U.S. penny. You would feel the ridges of the raised letters and numbers, Abe Lincoln’s...

    Robot Recycler Salvages Parts From Broken Machines

    Objects constructed by robots are ubiquitous. If you’ve used a car, household appliance, or smartphone today, you’ve used an object constructed at least in...

    Robots Are Learning to Feel

    Dexterous manipulation remains one of the biggest barriers keeping robots from successfully tackling a wide range of everyday tasks. A sense of touch could...