We’re all pretty well-acquainted with the obstacle avoiding robot. These little inventions use a proximity sensor to detect an object in front of the robot, then circumvent the object ...

I have three robot vacuums that roam around my house roughly once a week, in theory, cleaning my home’s floors. There’s the Roomba i6+, the first robot vacuum from iRobot to feature a dock where it ...

An Arduino-based robot for people who don’t know how to build robots ... wall avoidance, room navigation, object retrieval, follow/hide from light sources, shape drawing, computer input ...

As Randy points out in the video below, by giving the toy an Arduino, you’ve not only breathed a little bit of life into an old product, but you could tinker with this further–for instance ...

The robot works in a simple manner, following a hand placed in front of the robot’s sensors. First, the robot checks for the presence of an object in front using the ultrasonic sensor.

Technology Soft robot hand learns how to avoid butter fingers. Designed to look like a human hand, a soft robotic device uses pressure sensors and artificial intelligence to learn how to prevent ...

Flying robots, also known as miniature aerial vehicles, are useful in several surveillance situations –– the robots can swoop down to snap photos to aid in a search-and-rescue mission or ...

A robot equipped with these deceptively simple hands can pick up an impressive range of objects. It can lift a plush toy without dropping it, slip a CD off a table and then grab it, and even pick ...

However, for now, CSAIL’s robot can only identify objects in a controlled environment. Next, the researchers plan to enlarge the tactile/visual data set so the robot can perform tasks in various ...

Meet Primo: a physical programming interface that teaches children programming logic while they control the movements of an Arduino-powered robot. All of Primo's electronics are concealed inside ...