Georgia Tech researchers have developed COBALT, a smartphone-based platform that allows anyone to remotely control robots from anywhere using simple motion controls and Wi-Fi connectivity.

MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has come up with a use for virtual reality headsets that goes beyond firing them up, checking out a new game, muttering “cool” briefly ...

Scientists want to collect robot training data via crowdsourcing. In principle, anyone can contribute via a smartphone with ...

They’ve come in countless forms over the past few decades, but it seems the public just never grows tired of remote-controlled robots. Regardless of age, they inspire a unique fascination and are just ...

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Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois have demonstrated the world's smallest remote-controlled walking robot, at just half a millimeter wide. Such tiny machines can bend, twist, crawl, ...

RWD robot mowers are best suited to simple flat yards; more complex and sloped yards require AWD propulsion. And while you ...

One of the biggest challenges in space exploration is the dangerous nature of space environments: many places we want to explore have no or low levels of oxygen, low or micro-gravity, and potentially ...

Oh, dominoes — the fun of knocking them down is inversely proportional to the pain of setting them all up again. [DIY Machines] is saving loads of time by automating the boring part with a remote ...

"Jaee ー ー け ー け ど"ofPeople insideAccording to the story from the story, "With the power of the magnet, we have made it possible to directly operate the robot that can run on the side of the whiteboard ...

A dumpster loomed in front of the autonomous car as it drove down a quiet residential street in Mountain View. “Unidentified objects like this can be hard” for autonomous vehicles, said Shai Magzimof, ...