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The RoverWing Robotics Controller Board is a Expansion board for Adafruit Feather, providing motor drivers, IMU, and more. RoverWing is an expansion board (or “wing”, following Adafruit’s t...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/11/27/roverwing-a-feather-board-for-making-complex-robots-robotics-feather-featherfriday-hackster-io/

Sam Battle of Look Mun No Computer has been trying to make a jumbo Furby for a while. He’s done several iterations of it that he’s dubbed Cosmos. The latest project was to create a Cosmos ins...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/11/23/facial-recognition-robot-with-a-furby-brain/

You wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of a robot wolf. Via Guardian News on YouTube:Japanese town has deployed robot wolves in an effort to scare away bears that have become an increasingly...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/11/21/japanese-town-deploys-robot-wolves-to-ward-off-bear-attacks/

Issue 37 – HackSpace Magazine: Build a RobotRobots were supposed to make our lives easier, but where are they? Well, it turns out that if you want to have your own electronic companion, you’r...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/11/20/issue-37-hackspace-magazine-build-a-robot-robotics-hackspacemag-raspberry_pi/

New researching on AI is attempting to show that sometimes less is more. Via MIT Technology Review:The key idea here is the lightweight nature of the training data, which is what allows the robot...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/11/16/the-key-to-smarter-robot-collaborators-may-be-more-simplicity/

Bloomberg Quicktake: Now shared this video on Youtube!ULS Robotics is developing three exoskeletons that workers can wear to hold and lift heavy equipment. One is for the upper body, another goes...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/11/11/companies-are-using-robotic-exoskeletons-to-help-keep-workers-safe-wearablewednesday/

FreeBOTs bring together aspects of swarm bots and modular bots. Each one is an iron sphere with motorized wheels and a permanent magnet. They can do a lot by themselves, but when a few of these s...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/11/10/freebot-magnetic-modular-swarming-climbing-spherical-robots/

Helen Greiner – CEO, Tertill stopped by! Interview with Helen, Ladyada, and pt. Tertill is the garden weeding robot. Created by the inventor of Roomba, Tertill lives in your garden, runs on sun...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/11/05/helen-greiner-ceo-tertill-the-solar-powered-weeding-robot-tertill/

The AmphiSTAR robot uses propeller blades to “walk” on water, via new atlas! The basilisk is also known as the”Jesus Christ Lizard,” due to the fact that it can run across the surface of ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/11/03/lizard-inspired-amphibious-robot-runs-across-the-water/

Disney’s new robot can realistically stare into your eyes, Via Engadget Robots with human-like expressions are becoming ever more impressive, but Disney Research might just induce some nightmar...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/11/01/disney-robot-with-human-like-gaze-is-equal-parts-uncanny-and-horrifying/

Flippy robots will arrive in the 10 more White castle locations in 2021, Via EngadgetMiso Robotics’ Flippy ROAR — that’s short for Robot-on-a-Rail — showed promising results in its pilot ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/10/28/robots-will-cook-sliders-in-10-more-white-castle-locations/

Charlie Harrington, an avid cardboard robot builder, posts a list of favorite robots that includes many favored by us all.Nintendo R.O.B.Ed: We at Adafruit have a special place in our hearts for ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/10/21/robots-that-we-love-makerobotfriend-whatrocks/

Digit is a very real robot that is currently shipping to customers. Designed by Agility Robotic for spaces where humans can maneuver easily but other robots struggle.Via Business Wire:Digit, Agil...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/10/19/agility-robotics-raises-20-million-to-build-and-deploy-humanoid-robots-for-work-in-human-spaces-robotics-makerobotfriend/

Via ZDNetRoboticists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) created this centimeter-scale robot resembling a cockroach. Like the insect from which the en...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/10/18/bio-inspired-robots-biomimicry/

You had me at robot squid. Underwater robot buddy built at UC San Diego mimicking some cephalopod’s movment!Via Engadget:The team drew inspiration from the jet propulsion mechanism of real squi...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/10/14/researchers-built-a-robot-squid-that-propels-itself-with-a-water-jet-robotics-squidbot-drone-droneday/

CubeRover, co-developed with Carnegie Mellon University and Astrobotic, is the lightest commercial planetary rover ever created. More importantly, it is the cutest commercial planetary rover ever...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/10/05/tiny-moon-rover-is-on-its-way-to-nasa-for-testing/

To create truly useful robots for any given situation, engineers know that anthropomorphism can be a trap. Maybe that’s why this prototype butler from Toyota hangs from the ceiling like a creep...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/10/04/make-robot-alfred-not-robot-enemy-a-prorotype-robot-butler/

While ‘idiot’ isn’t one of my favorite words, this project is pretty darn fun! From 3DprintedLife on YouTube:Meet TOBOT, the Raspberry Pi powered, AI driven bot that plays tic tac toe and W...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/10/02/ai-tic-tac-toe-robot-tobot-piday-raspberrypi-raspberry_pi/

High marks for being one of the cutest drones. Via Core77:As everyone from farmers to environmentalists have found, airborne drones are fantastic for monitoring wide swaths of land that are too e...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/09/21/a-low-energy-alternative-to-drones-sloth-based-robots-drone-droneday/

Everyone’s favorite Queen of S***ty Robots, Simone Giertz, has taken a bunch of chattering teeth and turned them into a musical instrument. Here’s more from CDM:The Swedish roboticist who dub...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/09/21/an-instrument-made-from-teeth-from-simone-giertz-musicmonday/

If you were looking for a safe way to participate in trick-or-treating this year, this candy robot can be helpful!via dtan19 on instructablesIf you’re looking for a fun new way to interact with...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/09/21/the-social-distancing-halloween-candy-robot/

Great video. Stuff Made Here on YouTube made this basketball hoop that tracks and tilts to make sure you never miss. Its fun to watch the process and trial and error! Thousands have told me that ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/09/21/making-the-ultimate-basketball-robot-robot-sports/

Inspired by a Raspberry Pi robot made from purely salvaged materials, Nandu Vadakkath has made a robot companion for these times. The robot can follow Nandu around, recognize speech, and get to k...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/09/18/a-raspberry-pi-robot-companion-raspberry_pi-piday-raspberrypi/

Harry at Raspibotics has come up with a self-balancing robot, inspired by the Handle robot from Boston Dynamics. Here are notes on the project from Raspibotics BlogAs a student, I’m on a tight...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/09/04/boston-dynamics-handle-robot-recreated-with-raspberry-pi-raspberry_pi-piday-raspberrypi/

NEW PRODUCT – Smart Car Cutebot Robot for micro:bitThis fully-assembled and ready-to-rock robot smart car is the nicest we’ve seen and is incredibly easy to use with a micro:bit and MakeCode....

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/09/03/new-product-smart-car-cutebot-robot-for-microbit/

Not the most practical robot, but perhaps one of the cutest? Via OtamatoneAre you hungry while running? No probem anymore! Wearable robot Tomatan can feed feed you as you run. Japan’s largest s...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/09/02/tomatan-robot-robotics/

Researchers from Cornell University unveiled a robot as small as a a single cell. Here’s more form Engadget: The robots themselves are only 5 microns thick, 40 microns wide and between 40 and 7...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/08/31/make-tiny-robot-friend-not-tiny-robot-enemy/

Researchers seem to be going to the bugs! With this and a camera, bugs will become the ultimate spies! This project taps into locust’s sensory system and can rapidly detect certain chemicals.Vi...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/08/29/the-pentagon-is-training-an-army-of-bomb-sniffing-cyborg-locusts-biorobotic/

Browse through all that’s new here!NEW PRODUCTS THIS WEEKAdafruit SPI Non-Volatile FRAM Breakout – 4 Mbit / 512 KBytes – MB85RS4MT: FRAM, or Ferroelectric Ram, is the coolest new data stora...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/08/22/new-products-8-21-20-featuring-adafruit-ms8607-pressure-humidity-temperature-sensor-stemma-qt-qwiic-adafruit-adafruit-newproducts/

This week’s EYE on NPI (video) takes a hint from the advice we’re all getting to keep physically isolated – the ACS37002 current sensor is a physically isolated sensor that takes advantage...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/08/20/eye-on-npi-acs37002-electrically-isolated-current-sensors-eyeonnpi-digikey-digikey-allegromicro-adafruit/

Interesting article from the New York Times about robots stepping up. Not quite at Rosie but we are getting thereIndeed, cleaning robots are having a moment in commercial real estate. Their creat...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/08/09/for-robots-its-a-time-to-shine-and-maybe-disinfect-robot-robotics-makerobotfriend/

If only our phones could follow us around like it was a little pet. Here’s a project that uses Raspberry Pi to do just that. Here’s more from Patan Sanaulla Khan via hackster.io: Sometimes yo...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/08/07/pup-pet-ur-phone-raspberry_pi-piday-raspberrypi/

Great build and video from JasonLuk’s Tech on YouTube:Just click a button on my phone, the vehicle will go to the trash can and throw the trash automatically.See more on YouTube and GitHubEach ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/08/07/autonomous-trash-throwing-robot-piday-raspberrypi-raspberry_pi/

A new guide in the Adafruit Learning System today: DIY Robotic Sky Tracking Astrophotography Mount with CircuitPython This project uses a Feather M4 and Trinamic’s TMC-2226 stepper motor driver...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/08/06/new-guide-diy-astrophotography-mount-with-circuitpython-adafruitlearningsystem-adafruit-circuitpython-adafruit/

Tiny robots’ capabilities can be greatly expanded by applying the dynamics of the Japanese art of origami. Here’s more from researchers at University of Michigan via SlashGear:Evgueni Filipov...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/08/05/tiny-robots-helped-by-the-principles-of-origami/

How many robots does it take to change a lightbulb? Until this recent work from Carnegie Mellon University, none. Here’s more from SlashGear:One of the coolest features of the new technique dev...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/08/03/researchers-teach-robots-to-grasp-and-pick-up-reflective-objects/

Robots are getting closer to actually feeling things! Drawing inspiration from human skin researchers are working on “electric skin” to give robots fine grained tactile sense. From Venture Be...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/07/22/national-university-of-singapore-used-intel-neuromorphic-chip-to-develop-touch-sensing-robotic-skin/

Turns out, it’s a lot harder to design a robot to cut your hair than you might think. Actually, we can all likely imagine how hard it is. Shane of Stuff Made Here was up to the challenge (and h...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/07/16/robot-barber-insists-on-perfect-mullets-only/

The Tensorflow blog posts a demo built for (and had planned to be shown at) Google I/O this year with TensorFlow Lite.Pixelopolis is an interactive installation that showcases self-driving miniat...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/07/14/a-google-i-o-self-driving-car-demo-using-tf-lite-ml-iot-tensorflow/

I many places around the United States, robots have been deployed to make spaces safe for patients and doctors alike. Here’s more from The Verge: The robot arrived just a few days after Christi...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/07/14/make-robot-friend-for-doctors-not-doctor-enemy/

Edge Oceanarium Prototype from Edge Innovations on Vimeo.This robotic dolphin could replace captive ones, via GizmodoYou don’t need to have seen documentaries like The Cove to feel uneasy about...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/07/13/a-robotic-dolphin-could-be-coming-to-an-aquarium-near-you/

Xavier Geerinck has used a 3D printed arm, servo, and an Arduino Nano to manipulate an Xbox controller:Creating an Xbox Robot Arm is something that I’ve been wanting to do ever since I saw the...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/07/02/creating-an-xbox-robot-arm-gaming-arduino-xbox-robotics/

In today’s eddition of the robots are comming for our jobs – look out actors! More than just a prop this film is actually relying on the AI.Fun story from C-Net:A robot named Erica will have ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/07/01/robot-actress-to-star-in-big-budget-sci-fi-movie-robotics-ai/

Pathfinder is a fan favorite character from the game Apex Legends. In this new guide, John Park shows you how to build your own interactive desktop Pathfinder desktop companion, complete with Ada...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/06/24/new-guide-pathfinder-robot-companion-adafruit-johnedgarpark-sugru-apexlegends/

Georgia Tech’s SlothBot is built to move as little as possible for as long as possible. Its self-charges with solar panels as it moves, very slowly, taking in information. And adorable robot to...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/06/22/slothbot-a-robot-sloth-that-will-very-slowly-survey-endangered-species/

The robot dog that had people fearful of the Black Mirror episode Metalhead becoming real is now for sale.via MOTHERBOARDAccording to the Boston Dynamics website, Spot’s human-like mobility all...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/06/20/boston-dynamics-robot-dog-is-now-available-for-purchase/

This week on EYE on NPI (video above), folks who have wanted us to cover more motor controllers will see we’re taking a STEP in the right DIRECTION with the TMC2226-SA Ultra-Silent Stepper Moto...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/06/18/eye-on-npi-tmc2226-sa-ultra-silent-stepper-motor-driver-eyeonnpi-digikey-adafruit-digikey-adafruit-trinamic_mc/

Gaurav Kumar and TECHEONICS have put together a SimAr (Semi-Intelligent Multifunctional Robot) with Raspberry Pi and other readily accessible electronics and 3D printed parts. Here’s more via ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/06/12/440285/

Researchers from Université de Sherbrooke in Canada have engineered a waist-mounted remote controlled hydraulic arm can smash through walls. Here’s more from IEEE:This type of wearable robotic...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/06/09/body-mounted-robotic-arm-can-smash-through-walls/

This seems like a little overkill use of a robotic arm. Fun video from a couple years ago picked up by core77:Ohio-based candy company Esther Price sells boxes of chocolates with a red ribbon tie...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/06/06/an-industrial-robot-that-ties-ribbons-into-bows-robotics-makerobotfriend/