The Best Articles in Robotics
The most useful articles and videos in Robotics from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
Refind focuses on timeless pieces and updates the list whenever new, must-read articles or videos are discovered.
Top 5 Robotics Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Robotics by Refind users in 2024 so far.
- 35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here…
- Do You Love Me?
- High-speed AI drone beats world-champion racers for the first time
- What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World?
- What is a GPU? An expert explains the chips powering the AI boom, and why they’re worth trillions
Videos
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Do You Love Me?
Our whole crew got together to celebrate the start of what we hope will be a happier year: Happy New Year from all of us at Boston Dynamics. www.BostonDyna...
Working on the Neuralink Robot
Advanced surgical automation is core to our approach.MB01FXCJIJR6PHX
ANYmal can do parkour and walk across rubble
The quadrupedal robot ANYmal went back to school and has learned a lot. ETH Zurich researchers used machine learning to teach it new skills: the robot can no...
Will robotaxis ever be commercially viable?
San Francisco has become ground zero for US testing of driverless taxis, but how close are we to truly embracing them? The FT’s Patrick McGee pays a visit to...
Trending
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Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
Researchers are using generative AI and other techniques to teach robots new skills—including tasks they could perform in homes.
Toyota’s Bubble-ized Humanoid Grasps With Its Whole Body
Robotic manipulation should be about more than just fingers
Robots That Learn From Watching You Are Coming Whether You Like It or Not
A new AI model from Nivida called GR00T uses multimodal inputs like video to watch what someone does and translate those actions into a humanoid robot. Here come the real-life C-3PO droids.
What is a GPU? An expert explains the chips powering the AI boom, and why they’re worth trillions
Originally designed to speed up computer graphics, GPUs have become a hot commodity as AI workhorses.
Short Articles
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Amazon's Billion-Dollar Investment Arm Targets Generative AI in Robotics
The tech giant is now looking to a fund a new generation of robots by accelerating investments in startups combining AI and robotics.
Scientists 3D Print a Complex Robotic Hand With Bones, Tendons, and Ligaments
The approach uses machine vision to 3D print structures with multiple materials, from hard, bone-like substances to stuff that's more like soft tissues.
AI companion robot helps some seniors fight loneliness, but others hate it
There's limited evidence for health benefits so far; early work suggests no one-size-fits-all.
Google AI and robots join forces to build new materials
Tool from Google DeepMind predicts nearly 400,000 stable substances, and an autonomous system learns to make them in the lab.
High-speed AI drone beats world-champion racers for the first time
University creates the first autonomous system capable of beating humans at drone racing.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Robotics.
What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World?
First it was chess and Go. Now AI can beat us at Diplomacy, the most human of board games. The way it wins offers hope that maybe AI will be a delight.
35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here…
The famed science fiction writer was wrong about a world government, but pretty close on robots. On computers, though ...
«The consequences of human irresponsibility in terms of waste and pollution will become more apparent and unbearable with time and again, attempts to deal with this will become more strenuous. It is to be hoped that by 2019, advances in technology will place tools in our hands that will help accelerate the process whereby the deterioration of the environment will be reversed.»
A storefront for robots
Selling real things to real people means writing a steady stream of nonsense text that only web crawlers will ever read.
My Parents’ Dementia Felt Like the End of Joy. Then Came the Robots
Forget the crappy caregiver bots and puppy-eyed seals. When my parents got sick, I turned to a new generation of roboticists—and their glowing, talking, blobby creations.
Roboticists Want to Give You a Third Arm
Unused bandwidth in neurons can be tapped to control extra limbs
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