Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

A Candy Throwing Robot Arm has been developed to distribute candy to kids in a fun and efficient way. The robot arm detects children nearby and tosses them candy, attracting both kids and their ...

A laboratory in Pittsburgh’s Bakery Square is poised to make the next breakthrough in wheelchairs, a mostly stagnant industry ...

While the Roborock Saros Z70 didn’t exactly live up to the hype, there’s no denying its robotic arm is still a cool piece of technology. Capable of picking up small objects in its path, moving them to ...

There are many incredible open-source robotic arm projects out there, but there’s a dearth of affordable, stable, and mobile robotic platforms with arms. That’s where XLeRobot comes ...

Curses. Several days later, I was finally able to catch it in the act. I was in my daughter's room when I heard it make a weird noise, and managed to get my phone camera running as the momentous event ...

After three months of testing Roborock's ambitious Saros Z70, its headline-grabbing robotic arm is still just a proof of concept. Ajay has worked in tech journalism for over a decade as a reporter, ...

Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to ...

Coming out of CES 2025, there wasn’t a single product that generated more buzz than Roborock’s Saros Z70 robot vacuum and mop, aka the one with the robotic arm. Anybody who’s used a modern robovac ...

The Roborock Saros Z70 is the company's best robot vacuum to date, but only in a vacuum (pun intended). It cleans as well as anything we've seen, navigates very well, and its object detection is ...

Learn how lessons from medical robot design can be applied to all robotics from cobots to humanoids and autonomous mobile ...

As the old saying goes, when the only tool you have is a 6 DOF industrial robotic arm, every problem looks like an opportunity to make it serve up adult beverages. [benkokes] found himself in this ...