I built my own Wi-Fi router with a Raspberry Pi for Starlink and solar control - here's how

This custom Wi-Fi router works off-grid with Starlink and can control my solar power station. Here's how I went about it.

A robot is helping an ailing couple stay in their home. Are more to come for an aging population?

The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike — spurred on by fictional machines like The ...
Nature

Robots run this laboratory in Japan — and are changing how scientists work

Researchers hope to build a facility with thousands of robots capable of performing experiments independently by 2040.

This Trump-linked startup plans to put humanoid robots in the military

With ties to the Trump family, Foundation Robotics Labs is aiming to deploy humanoid robots in the military in the next 12 to ...
Hackaday

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For those of you that don’t know, the Heathkit HERO (Heathkit Educational Robot) was a ‘bot built in the early 1980s. [Rick] wasn’t satisfied with his model ETW-18’s programming interface, so decided ...
IEEE

Assist-as-Needed Control of a Shoulder Rehabilitation Robot Using a Virtual Biomechanical Model and Online Stiffness Adaptation

Abstract: This paper presents an adaptive Assist-as-Needed (AAN) control framework for a shoulder rehabilitation robot enhanced by a Virtual Biomechanical Shoulder Robot Model (VBSRM) and an online ...
IEEE

Stair-Climbing Strategy of a Leg-Wheel Transformable Robot Using Visual Feedback and Varying Leg-Wheel Contact Points

Abstract: Staircases represent one of the most challenging terrains commonly encountered in urban environments. This paper presents a comprehensive stair-climbing strategy for a leg–wheel ...