robots | design and technology news and projects https://www.designboom.com/tag/robots/ designboom magazine | your first source for architecture, design & art news Tue, 21 Nov 2023 09:16:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 life-like, AI robot dog ‘laika’ offers physical and emotional support for space travelers https://www.designboom.com/technology/life-like-ai-robot-dog-laika-space-travelers-jihee-kim-11-19-2023/ https://www.designboom.com/technology/life-like-ai-robot-dog-laika-space-travelers-jihee-kim-11-19-2023/#respond Sun, 19 Nov 2023 07:15:22 +0000 tatekim https://www.designboom.com/?p=1030320

sensors including depth and thermal imaging cameras and slam cameras enable Laika to interact and detecting space, objects, and people.

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robot dog that talks in british accent and sounds like human? boston dynamics says, why not? https://www.designboom.com/technology/robot-dog-spot-talk-boston-dynamics-chatgpt-10-31-2023/ https://www.designboom.com/technology/robot-dog-spot-talk-boston-dynamics-chatgpt-10-31-2023/#respond Tue, 31 Oct 2023 11:10:26 +0000 matthew burgos | designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=1026642

using chatGPT, boston dynamics’ robot dog ‘spot’ can now talk in multiple accents like british and american and has been tested to become a tour and museum guide.

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watch disney’s new two-legged robot dance, emote and follow people around https://www.designboom.com/technology/disney-research-new-bipedal-robot-wall-e-prototype-3d-printed-10-10-2023/ https://www.designboom.com/technology/disney-research-new-bipedal-robot-wall-e-prototype-3d-printed-10-10-2023/#respond Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:50:06 +0000 matthew burgos | designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=1021609

disney research’s new bipedal and wall-e-looking robot consists of 3D-printed parts, modular hardware, and reinforcement learning which allow it to be emotive and responsive.

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ETH zurich completes ‘semiramis’ hanging garden, built with the help of robots https://www.designboom.com/design/eth-zurich-semiramis-zug-switzerland-hanging-garden-robots-10-05-2023/ https://www.designboom.com/design/eth-zurich-semiramis-zug-switzerland-hanging-garden-robots-10-05-2023/#respond Thu, 05 Oct 2023 15:15:45 +0000 kat barandy I designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=1020856

the 'semiramis' vertical garden installation owes its unique form to a machine learning design method developed by ETH zurich.

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livMatS biomimetic timber shell at freiburg university follows a sea urchin’s plate skeleton https://www.designboom.com/architecture/livmats-biomimetic-timber-shell-at-freiburg-university-follows-a-sea-urchin-plate-skeleton-10-02-2023/ https://www.designboom.com/architecture/livmats-biomimetic-timber-shell-at-freiburg-university-follows-a-sea-urchin-plate-skeleton-10-02-2023/#respond Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:45:52 +0000 lea zeitoun I designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=1019721

livMatS Biomimetic Shell captured by roland halbe   The livMatS Biomimetic Shell is a collaborative project that joins the Clusters of Excellence, Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture (IntCDC) at the University of Stuttgart and Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS) at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Serving as an architectural incubator for the development of […]

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sophia the robot receives and interacts with guests at BOSS techtopia FW23 show in milan https://www.designboom.com/technology/sophia-the-robot-boss-techtopia-fw23-show-milan-09-29-2023/ https://www.designboom.com/technology/sophia-the-robot-boss-techtopia-fw23-show-milan-09-29-2023/#respond Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:10:17 +0000 matthew burgos | designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=1019400

BOSS FW23 techtopia show imagines ‘corpcore’ where robotics such as sophia the robot and humans of the future cohabitate in peaceful fashion.

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in robofab, humans & robots will work together to produce 10,000 humanoid robots per year https://www.designboom.com/technology/robofab-worlds-first-humanoid-robot-factory-digit-09-20-2023/ https://www.designboom.com/technology/robofab-worlds-first-humanoid-robot-factory-digit-09-20-2023/#respond Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:01:38 +0000 matthew burgos | designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=1017590

agility robotics is opening the world's first factory for humanoid robots in salem, oregon, later this year.

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3D-printed dress with moving eyes for surveillance is mind-controlled using brain sensor https://www.designboom.com/technology/anouk-wipprecht-screendress-3d-printed-dress-eyes-brain-sensor-09-07-2023/ https://www.designboom.com/technology/anouk-wipprecht-screendress-3d-printed-dress-eyes-brain-sensor-09-07-2023/#respond Thu, 07 Sep 2023 02:05:16 +0000 matthew burgos | designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=1014529

anouk wipprecht’s screendress aims to detech the wearer’s mental workload in real-time using a 3D-printed dress with wearable moving eyes.

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meet apollo: the humanoid robot designed for tasks we’d rather avoid https://www.designboom.com/technology/humanoid-robot-apollo-hazardous-tasks-human-safety-apptronik-08-29-2023/ https://www.designboom.com/technology/humanoid-robot-apollo-hazardous-tasks-human-safety-apptronik-08-29-2023/#respond Tue, 29 Aug 2023 09:50:27 +0000 christina petridou I designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=1012636

meet apollo, a general-purpose robot capable of managing various tasks.

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watch xiaomi’s lifelike CyberDog 2 perform ballet steps & a moonwalk with high precision https://www.designboom.com/technology/watch-xiaomi-lifelike-cyberdog-2-perform-ballet-steps-moonwalk-with-high-precision-08-16-2023/ https://www.designboom.com/technology/watch-xiaomi-lifelike-cyberdog-2-perform-ballet-steps-moonwalk-with-high-precision-08-16-2023/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2023 10:30:11 +0000 lea zeitoun I designboom https://www.designboom.com/?p=1010688

the new generation includes 12 built-in micro-motors and advanced motion control algorithms to elevate the robot's capabilities in a leap.

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