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Robot Looks Exactly Like A Roll Of Filament, If Filament Had Eyes

Matt Denton]’s SpoolBot is a surprisingly agile remote-controlled robot that doesn’t just repurpose filament spool leftovers.
Interesting Engineering

Japan unveils 72-foot robot arm to remove nuclear debris at Fukushima site

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings unveils a 72-foot robotic arm to retrieve radioactive fuel debris from Fukushima Daiichi plant.
ZME Science

DIY Engineer Turned a 3D Printer Into a Tattoo Machine and the Results Are Wild

How one amazing YouTuber turned a 3D printer into an automated tattoo machine.
MIT Technology Review

Vine-inspired robot fingers can reach out and grab someone

The new design could be adapted to sort warehouse products, unload heavy cargo, or help lift patients out of bed.
IEEE

Teach Pendant at Fingertips: Intuitive Vision-Based Gesture-Driven Control of Dexter ER2 Robotic Arm

Abstract: Teaching a robotic arm can be unintuitive and challenging due to the disparity between natural human limb movements and robotic manipulator control. Substantial training is often required to ...
IEEE

Decoding EEG Signals During the Observation of Robotic Arm Movements

Abstract: Recent studies in the domain of invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have revealed that neural activity recorded during the observation of robotic movements in a reach-and-grasp task ...