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Building And Testing A DIY Robot Actuator ↗

[Brandon Lai] is hoping to build a humanoid robot.

Building a Ceiling-Based Crane Robot to Keep a Room Clean ↗

One of the joys you get to experience whether as a proud parent or pet owner is that a lot of things get left around haphazardly.

Robot Chess but Each Piece is a Small Robot ↗

We have seen a number of self-playing chess boards over the years, but the general theme has been standard chess pieces moved by either an internal electromagnet or an external …read more

Print Your Own Robby the Robot ↗

When it comes to robots, few are as iconic as Robby.

Like a Wire Bender, But For Pop Tubes ↗

Are you familiar with pop tubes? Resembling the corrugated section of a bendy straw, they are at the core of PopTuber, an intriguing research project from the Actuated Experience Lab …read more

Classically-named Argus Robot Is Terminator Meets Tumbleweed ↗

If you were making a multi-limbed symmetric nightmare of a robot, where else would you look for a name but Greek Mythology?

Unitree GO-M8018-6 Motor Reverse Engineering ↗

People seem to be rather into the Unitree Go2 quadruped robot, if only for the low price tag.

Autonomous Submarine Relies On Color Detection ↗

We talk about all kinds of autonomous vehicles here at Hackaday, from aerial drones to rugged rovers.

Biofeedback Butterfly Beats With a Pulse ↗

Biofeedback is the idea of making one conscious of a biological process or feature, and then using this to try and exert control over the very same.

Asimov is an Open Source Humanoid Robot For the Rest of Us ↗

Given that some of the more famous demos were by Honda and Tesla, you might be forgiven for thinking you need pockets as deep as a car company to get …read more

Controlling a Vibrobot with Only One Motor ↗

The vibrobot – a vibrating motor and battery attached to the head of a brush – isn’t truly a robot, since its movement can’t be controlled, but it’s whetted the …read more

LiDAR Matrix Sensor Sees in 3D ↗

[Mellow_Labs] picked up a few LiDAR matrix sensors and found them very exciting.

The Dark Side of Unitree Robot Dogs ↗

Continuing on his quest to expose the dark underbelly of modern technology, [Benn Jordan] recently did a deep-dive into the rise of so-called robot dogs.

Want Driving Simulator Feedback? Make The Robot Do It ↗

Humanoid robots are a thing now, and here’s an interesting research project that explores using one as a form of haptic media.

Could Your Next House be Built from Giant Lego By an Inchworm Robot? ↗

Well, it depends when you’re going to be househunting– if it’s anytime soon, Betteridge’s law applies, but if your time horizon is a ways further out, [Miana Smith] at MIT …read more

An Improved Robot Dog for Senior Design ↗

[Aaed Musa] has been building robot dogs for a long time now, so it was only natural that he would make one for the senior design project of his mechanical …read more

Building a C-3PO You Can Really Talk To ↗

C-3PO is one of the more famous movie robots out there.

6 months ago

penPal, a Robotic Drawing Assistant ↗

Emergent properties include examples like murmurations of starlings which can’t be predicted from looking at a single bird, weather which can’t be predicted by looking at a few air molecules, …read more