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Via MIT Technology Review:The early research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help the development of useful soft robots that can heal themselves when damaged....

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/01/22/these-xenobots-are-living-machines-designed-by-an-evolutionary-algorithm/

Get up close and personal with this robotic wearable from Madeline Schwartzman on vimeo:A face robot that allows the wearer to get closer to local nature, and the viewer to experience a human/pla...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/01/22/face-nature-allows-users-a-whole-new-point-of-view-wearablewednesday/

Via DezeenSmart-home technology and innovative cars were overshadowed at CES by tiny robots designed to be human companions. We’ve rounded up eight of the kitschiest offerings at this year’s ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/01/20/eight-cute-and-kitschy-robots-from-ces-2020/

via SynthopiaTristan Calderbank shared this live performance with his DIY robotic percussionist. The system is based on the open hardware Arduino platform. The drum patterns were created in Ablet...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/01/20/live-performance-with-an-open-source-diy-music-robot-musicmonday/

via SynthopiaJames Cochrane created this robotic glockenspiel and programmed it to play the Gershon Kingsley synth-pop classic, Popcorn. Learn more!

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/01/20/popcorn-on-robotic-glockenspiel/

Y’all – how great is this bot from Jorvon Moss on Hackster.io:Heya, it’s 2020, so let’s start off strong, allow me to tell you the tale of my robot monkey companion, Dexter. Read more

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/01/19/meet-jorvon-mosss-monkey-companion-bot-dexter/

Angela Sheehan posts on Twitter her new automated companion. Her purple robot is incredible. The electronics are based on the Adafruit Feather M0 with radio microcontroller board with NeoPixel li...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/01/15/a-tiny-purple-dragon-companion-robot-with-adafruit-feather-feather-neopixels-robots-the_gella/

Via Hackaday, two years ago Kenny Trussell designed a autonomous lawn mower based on an existing riding mower:It’s brains consist of a PixHawk board running Ardurover, an Ardupilot derivative f...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/01/13/an-autonomous-lawn-mower-robotics-automation-kt320/

Bar-El Studio created an epic, lifelike, recreation of Mimir from God of War.From Bar-El Studio on YouTube:This is it! After a long progress, I present you the last studio’s animatronic project...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/01/13/god-of-wars-mimir-an-animatronic-project-by-bar-el-studio-ps4-godofwar-robotics/

via MIT Technology Review:The news: US startup Agility Robotics has just made its two-legged robot Digit available to buy for the first time. The first customer is car giant Ford, which has been ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/01/12/a-two-legged-delivery-robot-has-gone-on-sale-and-ford-is-the-first-customer-shipping-delivery-makerobotfriend/

Samsung’s concept video from CES for Ballie aims to “improve the quality of your “me time” and takes care of your loved ones and your home.”I did not see a sphere or ball-based computin...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/01/10/samsung-ballie-sphere-ball-based-computing-sphero-sony-rolly-ces2020/

The team must be taking notes from NYC cockroaches. Via Cnet:The DEAnsect, a fly-swatter-defying soft robot, could inspire all sorts of sci-fi fun, but its creators foresee a helpful future where...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/12/30/crushable-robot-insect-sneers-at-fly-swatters-and-shoes-robotics-robots-insects/

Alexander Hagerman (n0mn0m on GitHub) has posted CircuitRoomba, a CircuitPython library for interfacing with Roomba Open Interface devices.The library depends on CircuitPython, a user friendly im...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/12/17/circuitroomba-a-circuitpython-library-for-open-roomba-circuitpython-roomba/

NEW PRODUCT – Geared DC Motor with Magnetic Encoder Outputs – 7 VDC 1:20 RatioThe first step in a robotics project is to get a motor spinning. Once you’ve done that you quickly learn that n...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/12/13/new-product-geared-dc-motor-with-magnetic-encoder-outputs-7-vdc-120-ratio/

Ben on the buildits blog shares pictures of the assembly line at Boston Dynamics assembling the latest herd of Mini Cheetah robots.I made several minor design mistakes I had to fix.  Some holes ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/12/11/building-the-latest-heard-of-mini-cheetahs-at-boston-dynamics-robots-robotics-bostondynamics/

The Overhaul of the Future Begins Now: Überclocker 5.0 (Also, Welcome Back to Robots) | equals zero.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/12/09/the-overhaul-of-the-future-begins-now-berclocker-5-0/

via SlashGearNASA has shown off the ‘robot hotel’ that it is sending into space as part of the SpaceX commercial resupply mission scheduled to launch tomorrow. The robot hotel is designed to ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/12/09/nasa-shows-off-the-robot-hotel-its-sending-into-space/

A contest to use machine learning to autonomously operate the virtual Open-Source Rover created by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to explore the surface of Mars.From December 2 – Febr...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/12/09/the-aws-jpl-open-source-rover-challenge-aws-robotics-contest-opensource-awscloud-nasajpl/

NEW PRODUCT – Pi Supply Bit:Buggy Car (without micro:bit)The Pi Supply Bit:Buggy Car is a small and cute DIY smart car based around the BBC micro:bit. It’s a simple but well-designed li...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/12/06/new-product-pi-supply-bitbuggy-car-without-microbit/

Just one of the many reasons I would love to make another visit to Scotland! Via dezeen.An exhibition at the V&A Dundee explores the evolving relationship between humans and robots. From 1920s sc...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/12/03/va-dundee-curator-selects-five-designs-that-map-the-evolution-of-robotics/

via MOTHERBOARDNASA is gearing up to test drive a submersible robot underneath Antarctica’s sea ice, with hopes of eventually sending a similar machine to search for aliens in the subsurface oc...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/11/25/nasa-is-going-to-test-drive-an-alien-hunting-robot-in-antarctica/

Issue 25 of HackSpace Magazine features two methods of getting motors connected to a micro:bit board: the Adafruit CRICKIT for micro:bit vs the Kitronick Motor Driver Board v2.Adafruit also offer...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/11/25/issue-25-hackspace-magazine-adafruit-crickit-for-microbit-vs-motor-driver-board-v2-adafruit-microbit-crickit-hackspacemag-adafruit/

HackSpace Magazine Issue 25 recommends the Adafruit Crickit Robotics Boards among its modules, add-ons, shields and HAT boards for gift giving.Adafruit’s CRICKIT is a Swiss Army knife for maker...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/11/22/hackspace-magazine-issue-25-maker-christmas-the-crickit-robotics-board-crickit-robotics-adafruit-hackspacemag/

Larry on the bitbank software blog posts about building a remote-controlled car based on an Arduino Nano 33 BLE.The Beetle-C has its own CPU to control the 7 RGB LEDs and 2 motors. This CPU expos...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/11/20/rc-mini-car-using-the-arduino-nano-33-ble-bluetooth-robots-bitbank/

Shane Colton posts the latest work on the TinyCross Go-Kart:I finished building up the second dual motor drive for TinyCross, which means that the electronics and wiring have finally caught up ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/11/19/the-tinycross-go-kart-4wd-and-servoless-rc-mode-gokarts-robotics/

Via Inceptive MindThe new “growing robot” can be programmed to grow, or extend, in different directions, based on the sequence of chain units that are locked and fed out from the “growing t...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/11/18/mits-new-robot-can-grow-like-a-plant-and-squeeze-through-tight-spaces-robotics/

via SlashGear A team of MIT engineers believe that while soft robots can squeeze into spaces typical rigid machines can’t, they’re usually not sturdy enough to be fitted with tools like senso...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/11/18/plant-inspired-robot-squeezes-into-tight-spaces/

New research paper from Kingson Man and Antonio Damasio at Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, looks into robots with feeling.Via Tech Xplore:Feelings ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/11/16/could-ais-next-chapter-bring-design-of-feeling-machines-ai-artificialintelligence-makerobotfriend/

Via Core77Something that’s never addressed in Japanese anime: How would those giant robots support themselves, let alone generate the energy to move around? Just one of Voltron’s metal lions ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/11/13/ultralight-66-foot-long-robot-arm-paves-the-way-for-real-life-giant-robots-robotics/

via COLOSSALAs part of his engineering efforts, Olijnyk incorporates movement and articulation. His robot limbs are movable, and wheels rotate. In some of his works, the designer even incorporate...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/11/12/sci-fi-inspired-cardboard-sculptures-by-greg-olijnyk-feature-fully-articulated-limbs-and-working-motors/

via COLOSSALTo balance out his working life as a graphic designer focused on 2-D digital projects, Greg Olijnyk creates cardboard sculptures  in his free time. The remarkably refined artworks ar...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/11/12/sci-fi-inspired-cardboard-sculptures-with-articulated-limbs-and-working-motors-arttuesday/

Sometimes if you want to innovate you need to look to nature. Researchers are trying to improve robotic dexterity by mimicking plants.VIa MIT News:Now MIT engineers have developed a robot designe...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/11/09/flexible-yet-sturdy-robot-is-designed-to-grow-like-a-plant-robotics-robot-mit/

James Bruton shared this video on Youtube!I’ve been experimenting with simulated springs using back-driveable gearboxes with ODrive Brushless motor drivers to hold their positions, and of cours...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/11/06/robot-dog-stability-using-dynamic-compliant-simulated-springs/

Rad list from Robohub.From Mexican immigrant to MIT, from Girl Power in Latin America to robotics entrepreneurs in Africa and India, the 2019 annual “women in robotics you need to know about”...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/11/04/30-women-in-robotics-you-need-to-know-about-2019/

Version 2 of these self building blocks brings communication and identification. Via MIT News:Swarms of simple, interacting robots have the potential to unlock stealthy abilities for accomplishin...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/11/03/m-blocks-2-0-self-assembling-modular-robots-robotics-mit-ai/

Super impressive new work and research from The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University.Abstract: In this talk, I will describe our recent work building a biologically-inspired bat robot. B...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/10/29/design-modeling-and-control-of-a-robot-bat-from-bio-inspiration-to-engineering-solutions-makereducation/

Fun demo of robotic instruments in the OR from WCNC on YouTube:Surgeons at Atrium Health are getting into the Halloween spirit!See more HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Every day this month we’ll be bringing y...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/10/28/robotic-pumpkin-surgery-electronichalloween/

We first wrote about Shane Colton’s TinyCross ultralight electric crosskart back on August 27, 2018. Since that time some upgrades have been in the making.I’ve been waiting over a year to see...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/10/24/tinycross-ultralight-electric-crosskart-first-test-drive-and-data-logging-robotics-vehicles/

via MOTHERBOARDOpenAI, the San Francisco–based for-profit AI research lab, this week released a study documenting the development of an AI-linked robotic hand named Dactyl. Since May of 2017, t...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/10/21/humanoid-robot-hand-solves-a-rubiks-cube/

This story is great fodder for a sci-fi movie! What kind of unforeseen repercussions could come from selling your likeness?Via Vice:Geomiq, a London-based engineering company, says it’s looking...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/10/21/this-startup-wants-the-rights-to-your-face-in-perpetuity/

Make a bunch of these to scare trick-or-treaters or give them out to your trick-or-treaters with some candy attached to it!via Sandy Roberts on instructablesThis is a simple, fun bristlebot for H...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/10/19/halloween-spiderbot/

From the Adafruit forums, Roi Neustadt shares a flexible painting drone project. The video above shows the unit in a flying vertical painter configuration.The video below shows the printing secti...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/10/16/convertible-drone-paints-images-on-walls-and-flat-surfaces-art-robotics-fromtheforums/

via slashgearBack in June, we talked about some new autonomous robot boats that had been invented by MIT. These boats were designed to find and attach to each other while floating in the canals o...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/10/14/roboats-mit-autonomous-robot-boats-gain-the-ability-to-change-shape/

Via Hackster.io, researchers at the Imperial College of London have created an aquatic robot which can mimic a “flying fish” by launching out using a jet of water. Water from the environment ...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/10/01/robot-transitions-from-water-to-flying-propelled-by-water-pressure-robot-robotics-feather-hacksterio/

via SmithsonianFarmers can use the same “big data” tools that are integrated into other industries. Things like drones that communicate with satellites to collect data while soaring over a fi...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/10/01/five-roles-robots-will-play-in-the-future-of-farming/

Look at that landing! From BostonDynamics on YouTube:First, an optimization algorithm transforms high-level descriptions of each maneuver into dynamically-feasible reference motions. Then Atlas t...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/09/29/have-you-seen-atlass-gymnastic-routine/

from Michael Linsenmeier via hackster.io Gizmo is a robotic vehicle with a camera that can be remote-controlled over WLAN or the Internet by an Android app. The video capture of the camera can be...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/09/27/gizmo-the-app-and-voice-controlled-robotic-vehicle-raspberry_pi-piday-raspberrypi/

Issue 23 – Wireframe Magazine is here!What’s inside? Denki Games tell us all about Autonauts, an adorable survival sim with programmable robots. We catch up with composer Jesper Kyd to discus...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/09/26/wireframe-magazine-issue-23-is-here-gaming-robots-wireframemag-raspberry_pi/

IEEE Spectrum is reporting on Boston Dynamics’ announcement that their Spot robot is going on sale (video above).The machine’s animal-like behavior regularly electrifies crowds at tech confer...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/09/26/boston-dynamics-spot-robot-goes-on-sale-robotics-robots-makerobotfriend-bostondynamics/

James Bruton shared this video on Youtube!I built animatronic robot heads for my Performance Robots series. These robots are intended to be reliable, robust and transportable so they can visit va...

https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/09/25/building-animatronic-robot-heads-robotics/