One of the more fascinating sights of an autumn evening is the flocking behaviour of starlings as they lurch and swoop in extraordinary demonstrations of aerodynamic synchronisation. It turns out that ...

AI language skills let you command robots in plain English. The same AI tech lets the robots navigate the chaos of the real world. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Robot programming is many students’ first exposure to the world of computer programming. As with so much of the computing world, however, different robot platforms are generally incompatible.

In this article, I’m going to show how to use a Python robot framework to develop control software, describe the control scheme I developed for my simulated robot, illustrate how it interacts with its ...

As workplace robots become more common in retail stores, hospitals, and warehouses, their human coworkers need to know how to use and reprogram them. Yet most people lack that kind of highly technical ...

Cozmo was supposed to be the new face of robotics for Anki, previously known for its collection of connected toy cars. After Cozmo’s launch last October, the company offered SDKs for research groups ...

Kids, and Hackaday editors, love robots! The Open Roberta project (OR) takes advantage of this to teach kids about programming. And while the main focus is building a robot programming language that ...

MIT researchers are pioneering a new method for robot training that could create an all-purpose robot brain for all robot types. There’s no question that robotics is transforming our world. Thanks to ...

Intended for use with handling and assembly automation applications, the CS8 and compact CS8M robot controllers offer a new operating system, as well as VAL3, a new generation robot programming ...