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.

Understanding Robot Embodiment. When we talk about robots, it’s easy to get caught up in the fancy AI or the cool-looking ...

How about making a simple robot built with an inverted pendulum mechanism? The robot would balance on two wheels and uses a simple switch and sensor circuit. This would help beginners to get a hang of ...

If you wanted to build a robot that chased light, you might start thinking about Raspberry Pis, cameras, and off-the-shelf computer vision systems. However, it needn’t be so complex. [Ed] of [Death ...

Robots are everywhere in our imaginations—helping older adults at home, stocking warehouses, cleaning offices, and taking on dangerous jobs that humans shouldn’t have to do. Yet outside of factories ...

Robots are showing up in more places than ever before. From hospitals to homes, workplaces to classrooms, machines with artificial intelligence are becoming part of everyday life. But even as they ...

New research helps robots combine language and gestures to find objects in cluttered spaces, improving how they understand human intent.

It’s the main hub that ties everything together—sort of like the conductor for the orchestra that is a robot. It takes in data from sensors, runs that through some code (which you or someone else ...

AI stacks require heavy processing and high energy use. Humanoid robots run on batteries with limited power. This makes it ...