The Morning After: Sony’s portable speakers arrive just in time for summer
Are we ready to give our kids a robot companion? Original source: https://www.engadget.com/sony-wireless-portable-speakers-111922428.html
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Automate your cleaning with this affordable robot vacuum
The Kyvol Cybovac S31 is a 2-in-1 robot vacuum that learns your floor plan, cleans only where you want it and it can even mop. This robovac takes care of your home and itself by cleaning on schedule and charging itself when it needs to. Original source: https://www.engadget.com/kyvol-cybovac-s-31-145537647.html
BILL-E is a cute robot that builds structures block by block
A new robotics breakthrough could revolutionalize how we build everything from airplanes to bridges and even massive superstructures. A team of researchers at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology's Center for Bits and Atoms have created a new t… Original source: https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/16/bill-e-robot-builds-structures-block-by-block/
Tiny ‘walking’ motor could help robots build other robots
How do you get better at making more robots? By rethinking how you build the manufacturing robots, apparently. MIT researchers have developed a minuscule "walking" motor that allows for robots which should be at once customizable, fast and inexpens… Original source: https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/02/mit-walking-motor/
Scientists make a lifelike robotic fish using multipurpose ‘blood’
There's no question that robots have come a long way since their cold, clunky, cumbersome inception. Nowadays they're smart, agile and responsive — but they're still missing the tactile, multipurpose elements that make living creatures flexible and… Original source: https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/20/scientists-make-a-lifelike-robotic-fish-using-multipurpose-bloo/
DJI’s first educational robot is a $500 drone tank for kids
Less than a month after launching its first-ever action camera, DJI is now introducing its first educational robot, The RoboMaster S1, which the company says has been in development for two years, was inspired by a robotics competition that DJI has s… Original source: https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/11/dji-robomaster-s1/
MIT developed a new system to help robots track objects
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a new system that will either improve the quality and accuracy of robotics or lead to humanity's inevitable demise at the hands of mechanical overlords. Using RFID tags, the rese… Original source: https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/19/mit-rfid-tags-improve-robotic-accuracy/
