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    Video Friday: Quadruped Robot Solves Giant Rubik’s Cube by Itself

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar...

    Video Friday: Robot Decommissioning Takes a Fun Turn

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar...

    Video Friday: Robotic Motion Discovery Reveals Unusual Behaviors

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar...

    Video Friday: Spot Plays to Show Its Whole-Body Manipulation

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar...

    Video Friday: This Floor Lamp Will Do Your Chores

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar...

    Video Friday: Two Birotors Make a Quadrotor

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar...

    Video Friday: Watch This Running Robot Not Fall Down Stairs

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar...

    Video Friday: When Two Robots Become One

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar...

    Video Friday: Who Wins in Robot vs. Pro Ping-Pong Player?

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar...

    Video Friday: Your Robot Surgeon Will See You Now

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar...

    Visual Language Models Train Robots to Read Human Emotions

    This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. As robots advance in terms of dexterity and other...

    What Amazon’s Astro Taught Me About Giving Robots a Soul

    In 2018, Amazon brought me in as the lead UX Sound Designer for Astro, its first consumer home robot. Astro used cameras and other...

    What Makes a Job Dull, Dirty, or Dangerous?

    For years, the field of robotics has used the terms “dull, dirty, and dangerous” (DDD) to describe the types of tasks or jobs where...

    What Robotics Companies Think About the U.S. Foreign Robot Ban

    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...

    Wi-Fi That Can Withstand a Nuclear Reactor

    Researchers have made a Wi-Fi receiver that’s tough enough to work inside a nuclear reactor. They hope the receiver might be part of a...

    Will Robotics Have a ChatGPT Moment?

    Over the next few decades, billions of autonomous, AI-powered robots will work alongside people in factories, perform tedious tasks in warehouses, care for the...