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.

When a robot company is founded by graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you can bet they’ll create some innovative products. iRobot, famed for the Roomba robo-vac, is arguably the ...

Scientists built small ant inspired robots that work together using light signals. These robots can build or dig by following ...

The usual go-to when building a simple robot arm is the ever-pervasive hobby servo. However, these devices are not precise, and are typically jerky and unreliable. They have their advantages, but if ...

Robots don't have to be overly complex to perform more than basic tasks. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created SIMbot, a human-sized cylindrical robot that gets around with only one ...

Inspired by a theoretical model of particles moving around on a chessboard, new robot swarm research shows that, as magnetic interactions increase, dispersed 'dumb robots' can abruptly gather in large ...

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjisA9-YyrM&feature=youtu.be] Fellas, you’re gonna want that cowbell. And what better way to get that cowbell than with an ...

Confused about which robot vacuum to buy? Consumer Reports recently tested several and ranked their top four picks, with this ...

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