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Electro-hydraulic muscles help these robot legs stand straight on uneven terrain

Researchers at ETH Zürich are very good at keeping robots standing upright. Back in 2022, the school’s robotics team taught the quadrupedal ANYmal robot how to hike up mountains without falling over. New research from the school, published in collaboration with the Stuttgart-based Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, takes a unique approach to the […]

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University of Texas opens robotics program up to incoming freshmen

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

The University of Texas at Austin this week announced that it has opened its undergraduate robotics program to high school applicants. The honors program is one of the first in the U.S. that allows incoming freshmen to apply for the program as part of their initial admission application. It’s a clear indication that robotics is

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Amazon hires the founders of AI robotics startup Covariant

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

Amazon announced Friday evening that it has hired Covariant’s founders — Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, and Rocky Duan — along with “about a quarter” of the startup’s employees. It’s also signed a non-exclusive license to use Covariant’s robotic foundation models. Earlier this year, Chen told TechCrunch that Covariant is building “a large language model, but

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Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot shows off its push-up skills

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

When we mention Boston Dynamics, there are probably two things that come to mind: cool robots and viral videos showing off what those robots can do. The latest video that the company shared with TechCrunch doesn’t disappoint on either front. It features the new Atlas humanoid robot dropping to the mat and doing a bunch

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These 74 robotics companies are hiring

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

It’s been just over two months since we published our last robotics jobs post. The world of automation continues to excite and surprise, as the rise of generative AI opens new avenues for human-robot collaboration. From the looks of things, companies in the category can’t hire quickly enough. That’s a good problem for you, the

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Get in on the ground floor with Tesla’s humanoid by pretending to be one for pay

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

In 2021, Elon Musk unveiled Tesla Bot, a prototype for a humanoid robot that would eventually go by the name Optimus. Famously, there was no actual robot present, but rather a person in a suit pretending to be one. Now you can join in the action, while getting paid up to $48 an hour. As

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Boston Dynamics’ new electric Atlas can do push-ups

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

Until today, we’ve seen exactly 40 seconds of Boston Dynamics’ new electric Atlas in action. The Hyundai-owned robotics stalwart is very much still in in the early stages of commercializing the biped for factory floors. For now, however, it’s doing the thing Boston Dynamics does second best after building robots: showing off in viral video

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This startup wants to mine water on the moon

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

Meet Starpath, a startup that wants to make it possible for you to live on Mars one day. Starpath is building robots that it hopes will be able to autonomously mine liquid oxygen from the moon. That liquid oxygen can then be used to develop fuel for spacecrafts, which could make it possible for humans

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Ikea is expanding its fleet of inventory drones

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

If you went 20 years into the past and asked someone what we’d be using drones for now, they’d probably guess that we’d be getting our packages airlifted from across the country directly to our doorstep… but as it turns out, that isn’t very realistic (and honestly, ground shipping is fine). That doesn’t mean drones

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Ikea expands its inventory drone fleet

Robotics / Sasandara Dilmina

One of the biggest questions looming over the drone space is how to best use the tech. Inspection has become a key driver, as the autonomous copters are deployed to dangerous or remote spaces like power plants and oil rigs. Inventory drones are a promising subset of the category that has emerged in recent years.

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