In Guadalajara, Mexico, many high schools have motivated teachers and talented students with an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, but they lack access to advanced tools such as robotics laboratories.…
Mexican EPICS in IEEE Team Builds Portable Educational Platform
The resources shortfall limits the students’ opportunities for hands-o…
A team from ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara, is working to c…
Throughout her career, roboticist Barbara Mazzolai has turned to nature for inspiration.Now she wants to ensure the technology she builds gives back to the environment, too.…
Barbara Mazzolai Wants to Build a New Field of Robotics
After starting her career as a biologist, a chance opportunity saw Maz…
Building on her knowledge of biology’s ability to solve a diverse set …
Despite the recent deluge of videos of humanoid robots doing backflips and kung-fu, the actual pace of progress towards humanoids that can do economically viable jobs at scale has at times seemed a bit plodding.…
Digit 5 May Be the First Humanoid Robot Worker That’s Truly Safe
There are some good reasons for this: a humanoid robot needs to be pow…
But all three of those necessary features actively work against each o…
Imagine you are trapped under rubble after an earthquake and you see an electronics-covered cockroach with a spring-loaded needle on its back scuttling toward you.…
Cyborg Roaches Can Stab You With Needles
Although the sight might be unnerving, to say the least, this prototyp…
The Hardest Problems in RoboticsFor decades, scientists have sought to…
Humanoids desperately need to stop making YouTube videos and get a job already, and Persona AI is one of the few humanoid companies which seems to be entirely focused on making that happen.…
Is Shipyard Welding the Right First Job for Humanoid Robots?
Persona’s approach has been to carefully select a job that is economic…
IEEE Spectrum first spoke with Persona two years ago, shortly after it…
In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size humanoid that could do useful things, like carrying luggage.…
This DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic “Air-Muscles” Instead of Motors
He was working at a startup called Intergalactic Robots, but he couldn…
To help with his project, he organized a weekly get-together of a doze…
An examination of how socially assistive wellness robots could support the seven dimensions of senior wellness, and how a framework can measure their autonomy.…
Defining Autonomy for Wellness Robots in Senior Care
What Attendees will LearnWhy the senior care crisis exceeds incrementa…
Demographic pressure, workforce shortages, and a daily wellness-progra…