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“Visual positioning is not a very new technology,” says Konrad Wenzel at ESRI, a company that develops digital mapping and…

People who take movies, TV, and video games seriously often talk about how some fictional worlds feel “lived in” and…

A recently announced collaboration between Microsoft and Hexagon Robotics illustrates a broader shift underway in industrial automation. The agreement brings…

Imagine a tiny robot, no bigger than a leaf, gliding across a pond’s surface like a water strider. One day,…

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also…

—Jessica Hamzelou Earlier this week, my editor forwarded me a video of the leaders of Russia and China talking about…

Animals like bats, whales and insects have long used acoustic signals for communication and navigation. Now, an international team of…

Diffusion models like OpenAI’s DALL-E are becoming increasingly useful in helping brainstorm new designs. Humans can prompt these systems to…

Interactive robots should not just be passive companions, but active partners-like therapy horses who respond to human emotion-say University of…

Researchers have shown how robots could build enormous structures like solar power arrays in space instead of risking astronauts. A…