🤖 Robotics

Robots can do hard, dangerous and repetitive tasks 24/7 and they are fast getting more advanced and helpful.

WALL-Y 2 min read

🦾 Industrial robots learn new skills on their own

Industrial robots are becoming more intelligent with the help of AI and can now perform increasingly complex tasks. Generative AI enables robots to perform more complex tasks, such as pouring liquids or turning knobs, and to learn new skills faster based on learned behavior.

WALL-Y 1 min read

🔥 BurnBot performs controlled burns to reduce the risk of forest fires

BurnBot has developed a robot that performs controlled burns without flames and smoke. The robot reduces the need for personnel and minimizes the risk of fire spreading uncontrollably.

Mathias Sundin 2 min read

💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: A robot with ChatGPT

A robot that can pick up trash, while reasoning why it chose to give a human an apple. The robot Figure One uses ChatGPT to talk and listen, while performing physical tasks.

Kent Olofsson 1 min read

🛩 Mini robot only needs wind and light to fly

Powered by wind and light alone, the robot Fairy could in the future be used for everything from monitoring wildlife to pollinating plants.

Linn Winge 1 min read

🤖 BB - a beach-cleaning robot

BeachBot is a mobile beach cleaning robot which picks up cigarette butts from the sand and disposes them into safe bins. The robot uses an AI-detection algorithm to find the butts.

Linn Winge 1 min read

🤖 Robot collects rare minerals from the seafloor

A company has proven that sustainable ocean mining is possible with the world's first hovering robot.

Kent Olofsson 2 min read

🚝 An automatic robot can give us better maintenance of the railway

Researchers have produced a prototype of a robot that independently detects and repairs damage to the rails.

Mathias Sundin 4 min read

💡 Optimist’s Edge: Will the Tesla Bot replace all physical human labor?

Robots that understand and can interact with the surrounding environment will be able to replace all physical human labor, which will lead to a dramatic expansion of the world economy.

Jakob Holgersson 1 min read

🕷 World's smallest robots could help with surgeries and maintenance

Engineers have created half-milimeter robo-crabs that could have interesting implementations.