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Humanoid Robots

The latest developments in humanoid robots, bipedal robots, and walking robots
RoboticsTopicTypeNewsHumanoid Robots

Video Friday: Robot Dance

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

3 min read
humanoid robot with googly white eyes extends arms toward camera in a dance club-like blue and pink lit scene with confetti and balloons in the background
Makoto Nishimura [left] and his team designed Gakutensoku’s head so that it could express human affect.
RoboticsTopicTypeFeatureHumanoid Robots

The Short, Strange Life of the First Friendly Robot

Japan’s Gakutensoku was a giant pneumatic automaton that toured through Asia—until it mysteriously disappeared

11 min read
In the foreground, a teal, black, and silver bipedal humanoid robot waves its right arm. In the background, a similar robot reaches to take a bin off of a shelf.
Humanoid RobotsNewsType

Agility’s New Factory Can Build Thousands of Humanoids a Year

At full scale, over 10,000 Digit robots will be built in Oregon annually

2 min read
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TelecommunicationsTopicWebinarTypeComputingConsumer Electronics

Data Acquisition On-Demand Webinars

Get instant online access to Teledyne's on-demand webinars on high-performance digitizers, pulse detection, peer-to-peer streaming, high-level synthesis, and more

A close up photo of a tiny robot with six black legs and a circuit board on top, attached to a breadboard in the background through copper wires.
RoboticsTopicTypeNewsHumanoid Robots

Video Friday: Squishable Bugbot

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

2 min read
A photo of a huge robotic vehicle with arms, standing inside a warehouse
RoboticsTopicTypeNewsHumanoid Robots

Video Friday: TruckBot

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

3 min read

Download “The EV Transition Explained” E-book for Free

A 49-page report on the engineering challenges of making and supporting EVs at scale
A black and white humanoid robot lifts a brown cardboard box
TopicTypeRoboticsNewsHumanoid Robots

Apptronik Introduces Apollo Humanoid Robot

Apollo’s custom actuators will keep the cost low

6 min read
A split screen animated GIF showing humanoid robots from Agility Robotics and Boston Dynamics falling on their faces
RoboticsTopicTypeHumanoid RobotsInterview

It’s Totally Fine for Humanoid Robots to Fall Down

Agility Robotics and Boston Dynamics share their thoughts on falling bots

11 min read

Journal Watch

The latest engineering and computer science advances in context from IEEE Spectrum and the Xplore Digital Library
TransportationTopicTypeNewsClimate Tech

This Universal Charger Could Simplify the EV Landscape

2 min read
hand plugging in a gray device into a car
EnergyTopicTypeNewsClimate Tech

Solar-Powered Electric Motors for EVs That Never Plug In

2 min read
A photo-illustration of a car with solar panels on top moving in a symbol of the sun.
Climate TechTopicEnergyTypeComputingNews

Tape Storage Might Be Computing’s Climate Savior

4 min read
Textured rectangles bathed in blue light
Climate TechTopicEnergyTypeNews

Where There’s Smoke, There’s Wiggly Solar Output

3 min read
birds eye view of trees, houses and cars driving on a highway

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A spindly robot made of cables and actuators slowly travels down a cable above a desert landscape.
RoboticsTopicTypeNewsHumanoid Robots

Video Friday: Lunar Transport

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

2 min read
A photograph of a futuristic looking dark colored angular humanoid robot from the waist up
RoboticsTopicTypeNewsHumanoid Robots

Sanctuary’s Humanoid Robot Is for General-Purpose Autonomy

Phoenix seeks to embody humanlike intelligence

9 min read
Three men stand in a robotics laboratory around a small white upper body humanoid robot on a pedestal
RoboticsTopicTypeNewsHumanoid Robots

Here’s How Apptronik Is Making Its Humanoid Robot

Is now the right time for useful, affordable, general-purpose humanoids?

4 min read

The Transistor at 75

The past, present, and future of the modern world’s most important invention
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Illustration of a cake with a candle shaped as a transistor symbol
A phot of an outstretched hand with several transistors in the palm of it.
SemiconductorsTopicDecember 2022MagazineTypeFeatureSpecial Reports

How the First Transistor Worked

12 min read
A chart showing the timeline of when a transistor was invented and when it was commercialized.
SemiconductorsTopicDecember 2022MagazineTypeFeatureHistory of TechnologySpecial Reports

The Ultimate Transistor Timeline

2 min read
A photo of 3 different transistors.
SemiconductorsTopicDecember 2022MagazineTypeFeatureSpecial Reports

The State of the Transistor in 3 Charts

4 min read
An image of stacked squares with yellow flat bars through them.
SemiconductorsTopicDecember 2022MagazineTypeFeatureSpecial Reports

3D-Stacked CMOS Takes Moore’s Law to New Heights

9 min read
Six men and a woman smiling.
SemiconductorsTopicDecember 2022MagazineTypeFeatureSpecial Reports

The Transistor of 2047: Expert Predictions

5 min read
RoboticsTopicTypeNewsHumanoid Robots

Apptronik Developing General-Purpose Humanoid Robot

Apollo will be a practical bipedal platform that can do useful tasks

6 min read
A photo of a sliver and black humanoid robot
A black and white humanoid robot sits at an electronic drum kit
RoboticsTopicTypeNewsHumanoid Robots

Xiaomi’s Humanoid Drummer Beats Expectations

Solving drum-playing helped quest for whole-body control

3 min read
A black and white humanoid robot with a malfunctioning leg supports itself with one arm against a wall
RoboticsTopicTypeNewsHumanoid Robots

Robot Learns Human Trick for Not Falling Over

Humanoid limbs are useful for more than just manipulation

3 min read
Several different views of a headless black humanoid robot demonstrating its flexibility
RoboticsTopicTypeNewsHumanoid Robots

IHMC’s Nadia Is a Versatile Humanoid Teammate

This robust research platform is still humble enough to teleoperate

7 min read
Tesla's Optimus robot waves at audience from the stage.
RoboticsTopicArtificial IntelligenceTypeAnalysisHumanoid Robots

What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

Roboticists from industry and academia share their perspectives on Tesla’s new humanoid

11 min read
A humanoid robot with metal and wires exposed stands on stage.
RoboticsTopicArtificial IntelligenceTypeAnalysisHumanoid Robots

For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is Exactly What We Expected

Tesla fails to show anything uniquely impressive with its new humanoid robot prototype

16 min read
A black and white humanoid robot lies face down on dirt after appearing to have just fallen
RoboticsTopicTypeNewsHumanoid Robots

Xiaomi Builds a Humanoid Robot for Some Reason

CyberOne is a new biped from China, but why does it exist?

3 min read
A white humanoid robot with a black helmet stands facing the camera
RoboticsTopicTypeNewsHumanoid Robots

Even as It Retires, ASIMO Still Manages to Impress

Over a decade old, Honda’s little humanoid robot astonishingly doesn’t seem obsolete

2 min read
A child-like robotic face
RoboticsTopicTypeNewsHumanoid Robots

iCub Is Growing Up

iCub3 may be only a little bit taller than its predecessor, but it’s much more capable, especially for telepresence

3 min read
TopicTypeRoboticsNewsHumanoid Robots

Jet-Powered Robot Prepares for Liftoff

Four jet engines and fancy pants will allow iRonCub to take to the sky

3 min read
A small humanoid bipedal robot with a jetpack, jet arms, silvery flame-protective pants and many wires stands on two bathroom scales.