One of the perennial challenges of building robots is minimizing the size and weight of drive systems while preserving power. One established way to do this, at least on robots with joints, is to ...

The Hackaday Prize is the greatest hardware competition on the planet. It’s the Academy Awards of Open Hardware, and over the last few years we’ve been doing it, we’ve seen literally tens of projects ...

Yaskawa Motoman has released a new interface supporting NI LabVIEW programming of Motoman industrial robots. Developed in collaboration with National Instruments and ImagingLab, the library allows ...

Rubberized faces stretch into familiar shapes, driven by tiny motors and a distant version of artificial intelligence—is this the future? Meet Sophia, a social robot created by former Disney Imagineer ...

The odds seemed impossible: a shoestring Chinese start-up founded in 2023 with just 1 million yuan (US$142,000) taking on Elon Musk – tech legend, disrupter in space and CEO of Tesla – who is valued ...

Want to keep your floors clean without lifting a finger? The best robot vacuums we've tested are more capable and affordable than ever. I’m PCMag’s senior writer covering smart home and wearable ...

Kraken Robotics Inc., a marine technology company, engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of sonar and optical sensors, batteries, and underwater robotic equipment for unmanned underwater ...

Making cameras smarter by extending LabView's power into low-cost, rugged machine-vision applications is the idea behind the NI CVS-1454 industrial compact vision system from National Instruments. It ...

Retire your old mop and bucket. The top robot mops we've tested keep your floors squeaky clean with little effort on your part. I’m PCMag’s senior writer covering smart home and wearable devices. I’ve ...

This robot was designed to do your house chores, but a remote human operator might be helping it finish them. Connor is a technology writer and editor, with a byline on multiple platforms. He has been ...

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There are many different ways to evolve a Pokemon in Pokemon GO, one of them being through the use of Lure Modules. Typically, these items are used to attract Pokemon to a PokeStop for a short time.