robotics
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Human Following Robot Using Arduino and Ultrasonic SensorWorking of Human Following Robot Using Arduino
In recent years, robotics has witnessed significant advancements, enabling the creation of intelligent machines that can interact with the environment. One exciting application of robotics is the development of human-following robots. These robots can track and follow a person autonomously, making them useful in various… |
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This Robot Plays Othello Without Flipping a Single Disc, Thanks to 64 Color-Changing LEDs In Grade 11, maker Jeneus tried to write an Othello program in C++. It ended up buggy and the computer could only play random moves. Years later, with mechatronics skills, he turned that failure into Othellobot: a gantry robot that watches the board with a camera, picks its move and places clear tokens with a suction cup. The smart part is that it never flips a disc. Every cell has its own LED… |
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Hugging Face's Reachy Mini Robot Gets $149 Wheels and NFC Hats That Swap Its Personality Pollen Robotics, the Hugging Face robotics team behind the open-source Reachy Mini desktop robot, has launched "Level Up", a set of add-ons that let the little robot leave the desk. Announced on 29 October, it adds a two-wheeled Hoverboard base, NFC hats that switch the robot's personality, and iOS and Android apps. What is new Hoverboard, $149 (pre-order): a two-wheeled base with soft… |
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A 185 mg Insect-Sized Robot Took a Flyswatter Hit and 11,000x Its Weight, Then Flew Again Most insect-sized flying robots are lab pets: one crash into a wall and a rigid hinge or gearbox snaps. A team led by Yuan Zhu, Hanxiang Wu and Professor Qibing Pei at UCLA, with Wenzhong Yan at UC Davis has built one that shrugs it off. Their 185 mg robot, lighter than a fifth of a gram, took off again after being hit with a flyswatter and after being flattened under aluminium blocks weighing… |
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A 1984 Tomy Omnibot Gets a Raspberry Pi 5 Brain and an AI Camera That Knows 80 Objects In 1984, Tomy sold the Omnibot as the robot butler of the future. It could roll around, play cassette tapes and carry drinks on a tray, but it had no real intelligence: everything came from a remote or a pre-recorded tape. Forty-two years later, maker Mario Cruz has given a donated Omnibot at Moonlighter FabLab in Miami the brain it was promised, using a Raspberry Pi 5, the Raspberry Pi AI… |
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This Open-Source 1.2 m Humanoid Runs on a Raspberry Pi 5 and a Radxa CM5, and After a Year of Building It Is Now Walking in Public Most humanoid robots you see walking on stage are closed products with closed software. Asimov 1 is the opposite. Menlo Research, a team in Singapore, has published the full mechanical CAD, electrical schematics and PCBs, simulation models, firmware and walking policy for its 1.2 m, 35 kg humanoid, and on day 366 of the project the robot was out in public at the SWITCH event in Singapore,… |
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Inside STMicroelectronic's Robotics and AI Demos at electronica India 2026 At electronica India 2026, STMicroelectronics showcased a range of robotics and embedded AI solutions, with one of the highlights being a 6-DOF robotic hand controlled by AI-based gesture recognition. Developed by a robotics customer using ST microcontrollers, the demo used a camera to capture hand movements and an AI system running on the STM32N6 to recognize… |
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This Giant 3D-Printed Wheel Writes Endless Scrolling Text With Black and White Marbles, After 30+ Hours of Testing Marble machines usually stop at clocks, with a fixed number of digits and a fixed amount of space. Ivan Miranda wanted a display that never runs out of room. His new Marble Scroller is a huge 3D-printed wheel that writes text in black and white marbles using a 7x5 pixel font, lets each line roll off the other side and then recycles the same marbles to write the next one. It can do uppercase,… |
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Two Eyes, One Tiny Chip: This Open-Source Board Computes Stereo Depth So Your Arduino Doesn't Have To Hardware hacker machinehum (Rootkit Labs) has built 4reel, a small open-source stereo vision board that gives robots depth perception without a Raspberry Pi or a PC riding along. Two OV9281 global-shutter cameras sit at either end of the PCB, and the depth maths runs on the board's own Rockchip RV1103 chip. Your Arduino or ESP32 just reads the results over UART. Powered by a single-core 1.1… |
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This ALBATROSS Robot Uses a Teensy 4.1 and Autorotating Wings to Land on Water and Sail With Wind Power Researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have developed ALBATROSS, a robot that can descend from the air, land on water, and then sail using wind power. Its name stands for Airborne Lander with Buoyant AuToROtating Sailing Sensor. The robot is designed to carry sensors to remote lakes, reservoirs, and other water bodies that are difficult to reach by boat. When… |
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Instead of Training a Robot, He Let a General-Purpose Multimodal LLM Control It to Pick Up and Bin a Toy Harrison Kinsley, the YouTuber behind Sentdex, has shown a Vulcan Robotics Sourccey, a 3D-printed robot he calls “Chonk,” picking up a toy from the floor and dropping it in a bin with no task-specific training. In part three of his “Everything is LLM” series, published Oct 8, a general-purpose multimodal language model made the task decisions. The planning and control came from DeepSeek’s V4.1… |
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Renesas Expands GaN Portfolio with First Low-Voltage GaN FETs for AI Data Centers and Robotics Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has expanded its GaN portfolio into low-voltage applications with its first family of 100V enhancement mode (E-mode) GaN-based discrete power transistors. The RTP100E005G1FL, RTP100E2P6G1FL, RTP100E1P8G1FL-DSC and RTP100E1P2G1FL-DSC low-voltage GaN FETs deliver ultra-fast switching speeds and… |
