Robotics news 49 stories
The Hexa-Bouncer May Be The Most Overengineered Thing You See This Week ↗
Sometimes, you want to build a simple project– the minimum viable product that solves your problem and nothing else.
Building a Cheap, Dexterous Robot Hand ↗
Most of the time, assuming nothing’s gone wrong with them, we take our hands so much for granted that it’s easy to forget what remarkable pieces of engineering they are: …read more
Pogo-Bot Goes All Terrain With Compliant Foot ↗
What do you get when you combine a pogo stick, a quadcopter, and engineering students from the University of Toronto?
Center-Pivot System Modified to Mow Lawn ↗
When flying over the United States, Australia, and a few other vast and relatively empty parts of the world, strange circular formations can be spotted.
Robot Makes Literal Daisy Chains ↗
[Jude Robinson]’s robot Daisy has an unusual function: making a literal chain of daisies.
Teaching a Robot Hand to Walk ↗
Although it wasn’t apparently designed with this in mind, it seems particularly fortuitous that this walking robotic hand was released in time for Halloween.
Little Droid Has Party Mode ↗
Remember those tiny little droids skittering around the pristine corridors of the Death Star in Star Wars?
Making a Robot to Serve Some Mean Badminton Shuttlecocks ↗
Sometimes regarded as a less violent form of tennis, badminton is still a pretty challenging sport.
Low(er)-Cost Humanoid Robot Leverages DIY Actuators ↗
Humanoid robots, even scaled-down ones, tend to be expensive.
This Library Needs to Be At Least… Three Times Bigger ↗
Many of us have noted a tremendous price increase in many computer components for some mysterious reason.
3D-Printed Skin Gives Robots the Sensation of Touch ↗
Hypoesthesia, more commonly referred to as numbness, is one of the more distressing ailments that can affect us humans, primarily because it reminds us of just how much we rely …read more
Using Acoustic Resonators as Thrusters for Small Robots ↗
There are quite a few rather unconventional methods of propulsion, but perhaps one of the more curious approaches involved Helmholtz resonance, as demonstrated by [Junsun Hwang] et al.
Building an Actuator for a Walking Robot ↗
Unlike biological systems, which can use muscles, robots that try to imitate them don’t have particularly fast, powerful, compact linear actuators available.
Twin Guitar-Playing Robots Will Work for Tab ↗
Remember Animusic? They were these incredible animated music videos with original tunes being played by computer-generated robots.
The Chernobyl NPP and Forty Years of Robots for High Radiation Environments ↗
With the massive steam explosion that shredded the #4 RBMK reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 it suddenly made robots that could survive a high ionizing radiation …read more
Robotic Screw and Bolt Sorter Seeks a New Challenge ↗
As someone who disassembles and repairs hardware, [Aad] eventually ended up with a huge collection of mixed bolts and screws.
Chernobyl’s Robots, or the Hackathon From Hell ↗
When the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s #4 reactor experienced an extreme criticality event on that infamous day in 1986, the resulting steam explosion and lack of any kind of containment …read more
A 3D Printed Cycloidal Gearbox ↗
Stepper motors are undeniably useful, but sometimes they need a bit of gearing to help perform their task.
Stewart Platform Walker Gains Feeling In Legs From Resistors ↗
Stewy is a very interesting robot, with some slightly odd kinematics.
Tiny Desktop Robot Has Radar ↗
One thing our futuristic world is largely lacking in is droids and robot companions and the like.
Custom Beach Robot Handles the Hard Work ↗
A day at the beach can involve hauling a surprising amount of gear, from coolers, towels, blankets, chairs, and umbrellas, and if children are involved the amount of beach stuff …read more
Open Source Vacuum Avoids Cloud ↗
As more and more of the technology that we paid for turns becomes a subscription, there’s slowly been a momentum shift in the open source world of building replacements for …read more
Fibrous Muscles for Humanoid Robotics ↗
At the current rate of robotics development, you might assume that we’re close to Skynet taking over.
To Build More Believable Bots, Simulate The Neurochemistry ↗
Giving machines the ability to communicate nonverbally has real value, and [Drew Smith] clearly thinks your robot deserves better than an emoji.
Robot Dog in Browser ↗
You’ve doubtlessly seen the current crop of robot dogs and, if you are like us, thought about getting one to play with.
Engineering Micro-Submarines to Replace Fish ↗
Everybody loves aquariums. There’s something soothing about watching the lil’ critters inside them swimming, crawling and wriggling about.
Web Tool Lets You Take Steam Controller for a Drive ↗
One of the simplest robots to make is a bristlebot — a motor with an offset weight is attached to the head of a toothbrush, and the resulting vibrations will …read more
Reachy Mini Desktop Robot Gets All-local, Conversational AI ↗
Reachy Mini is a limbless desktop robot from Hugging Face made for human interaction experiments, and to give you an idea of what it’s like is a guide on how …read more
Increasing Local GPS Accuracy for a Small Robot ↗
Even though GPS makes it possible for us to easily navigate around the planet in almost any vehicle we’d like, whether that’s a passenger vehicle, airplane, or cargo ship, it’s …read more
Come With Me if You Want to Weed: Autonomous Weedinator Robot back for 2026 ↗
The WEEDINATOR agricultural robot is one of the longer-running projects we’ve featured here on Hackaday.