The best robot vacuum cleaners, according to our testers, include models by Dyson, Shark, and Eufy. Each vacuum was rated on ...

Robot sumo is not as easy as it looks. The robots need to push their opponent out of the ring, so they are equipped with a host of sensors. The main challenge is their autonomy—they are not ...

Robots make everything look easy, but there's actually a lot of work going on under the hood to make even simple tasks happen. But through impeccable design, practice, and some good programming ...

Two servos are used to drive the wheels independently, allowing the robot to be steered in a rudimentary tank-style fashion. Power is courtesy of a pair of 18650 lithium-ion cells.

Build your own Palm robot -- it's easy Researchers at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute offer a do-it-yourself kit and online instructions -- in 15 steps, you've got a Palm Pilot robot.

[Will] from Revolt Lab needed a project to get the summer campers he supervises interested in electronics, but when your audience is 5 years old, your subject matter had better be simple, yet inter… ...

The iRobot Braava is a mopping robot that uses simple design principles to make it affordable and effective. We teardown the robot to learn its design and manufacturing secrets.

In the future, swarms of robots could be called in to build impressive structures or clean up dangerous messes too small to be seen with the naked eye.

At less than a quarter inch across, the magnetically activated robot can manipulate water flow to manipulate objects.

Simple robots, smart algorithms Date: April 29, 2021 Source: Georgia Institute of Technology Summary: Inspired by a theoretical model of particles moving around on a chessboard, new robot swarm ...

The robot starts out with a “seed” – a tiny cube that hops around a test plate, directed by a magnetic field. It can hop onto a flat sheet that’s actually an exoskeleton, waiting to be ...