When the Armatron first came out, in 1981, robotics engineers started contacting Watanabe. “I wasn’t so much hearing from ...

A new open-source humanoid robot, ALANA, is attracting action in the maker community for its affordability and functionality.

I asked one of the creators of the arms, Professor Masahiko Inami, to tell me more. This is a small copy of this movement. So physical computing to avoid collision. Also, it's very intuitive. It's ...

The video in question was of [The 8-bit Guy] doing a small restoration of a 1984 Radio Shack Armatron toy. Expecting a mess ... this was very clever. The robot arm can do full 360 rotations ...

The eligible bonus models span from robot vacuums to upright vacuums ... I'd personally benefit the most from the arm being able to grab pet toys. People more swayed by practicality than a ...

But what do you get when you combine a Raspberry Pi, 12 motorized arms, and some microbial inspiration? A bacteria-inspired robot named ZodiAq that swims using flexible flagella—just like ...