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A Chinese EV startup wants to build a ridable robot unicorn for kids
Chinese EV maker Xpeng has teased a robot unicorn your kids can ride — but most of its details are still a mystery.
Boston Dynamics' robots can parkour better than you
Boston Dynamics' robots are now successfully performing parkour in an obstacle course — let's hope they don't have to chase us.
Qualcomm unveils its first 5G-capable reference drone
Qualcomm built a reference drone using its Flight RB5 5G platform that you can pre-order now.
Oh hey, Xiaomi has its own creepy robot dog now
The CyberDog is not to be confused with the British clothing retailer of the same name.
This robot made a 100,000-domino 'Super Mario Bros.' mural in 24 hours
A new robot known as the Dominator has set a Guinness World Record for placing 100,000 dominos in just over 24 hours.
Why every robot needs a spiffy hat
Tomorrow's robotic workforce will be just like us, putting their robo-pants on one leg at a time.
Alphabet's latest moonshot aims to make industrial robots more practical
Alphabet has launched its latest X moonshot company, Intrinsic, with the goal of making industrial robots more practical for many people.
Hyundai now owns robot dog maker Boston Dynamics
Hyundai has acquired Boston Dynamics from Softbank in a deal that values the robotics company at $1.1 billion.
Robotic 'digger finger' could search for buried land mines
Researchers have built a robot 'finger' that can dig through sand to find buried items like land mines and cables.
The Ascend is a robotic knee brace on a budget
Bay Area startup Roam Robotics has a less intensive and expensive means of getting folks with mobility issues back on their feet. It’s called the Ascend and it’s a sub-$10k exoskeletal knee brace for everybody.
Disney's latest robot will bring Groot and other characters to life
Project Kiwi could one day make Disney theme parks feel more real.
Carnegie Mellon’s latest snakebot can swim underwater
You can now add swimming to the list of things Carnegie Mellon's snake robot can do.
MIT researchers use radio waves to help robots find hidden objects
With a wrist-mounted camera and an RF reader, RF Grasp can find and pick up objects, even if they're initially hidden from sight.
Researchers create a swimming robot that can 'heal' itself
Researchers at UC San Diego created a tiny robot shaped like a fish that could reassemble itself when broken apart.
Origami-like patch could help robot surgeons repair internal injuries
MIT researchers have developed an origami-style medical patch robot surgeons could use to repair internal injuries.
Hitting the Books: AI doctors and the dangers tiered medical care
Frank Pasquale’s 'New Laws of Robotics' shows how the promise of faster, more efficient medical diagnoses from AIs can also be a double-edged sword, cutting off access to the quality care provided by human doctors.
Reachy the robot can now be controlled via VR
Last year at CES French startup Pollen Robotics debuted Reachy, an open-source humanoid robot (the top half of one at least) capable of performing a wide variety of tasks — from traditional R&D to product demonstrations and food service. This year, Reachy is back and more capable than ever before. Rather than program in Reachy's movements, users can now control the robot directly simply by donning a VR headset.
Hyundai confirms its $1.1 billion acquisition of Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics is now officially part of Hyundai Motor Group. The Korean conglomerate has struck a deal with Softbank to acquire a controlling interest — an 80 percent stake — in the robotics company for $1.1 billion. According to their announcement, Hyundai decided to purchase a controlling stake in the robotics firm, because it “possesses multiple key technologies for high-performance robots equipped with perception, navigation, and intelligence.”
SoftBank has reportedly sold Boston Dynamics to Hyundai
Hyundai Motors is acquiring Boston Dynamics, according to The Korea Economic Daily. The publication says Softbank has agreed to sell the robot maker for 1 trillion won (US$917 million) and that the acquisition will be finalized at a board meeting today, December 10th. Boston Dynamics is known for its nightmare-inducing (or oddly adorable, depending on your perspective) robotic dog Spot, which it started selling in mid—2020 for $75,000.
The ExoMy is a programmable $600 Mars rover you can build yourself
From Sojourner to the much bigger Curiosity, robotic rovers tend to come in all shapes and sizes, but few will go down as adorable as the European Space Agency’s new ExoMy rover.