The Best Articles in Robotics
The most useful articles and videos in Robotics from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
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 2023.
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...
UpTown Spot
Shared by 165, including Linda Liukas, Miguel, Tauno, Michael Seemann, Beta Ben Popper V2.3
Working on the Neuralink Robot
Advanced surgical automation is core to our approach.MB01FXCJIJR6PHX
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...
I climbed inside a giant robotic parking garage
I was going to film a video about a robot bicycle park. And then GIKEN, the company who built it, said: you know we do this for cars as well, right? ■ More d...
Trending
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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.
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.
Amazon delivery drones: how the sky could be the limit for market dominance
Taking express delivery to new heights could be a risky move.
How robots can learn to follow a moral code
Ethical artificial intelligence aims to impart human values on machine-learning systems.
Boston Dynamics uses ChatGPT to create a robot tour guide
Find out what happened when a team of roboticists powered a robot dog with AI to create a tour guide that talks.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles in Robotics—all under 10 minutes.
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.
Scientists conduct first test of a wireless cosmic ray navigation system
System could be used to guide underwater robots or underground autonomous vehicles
Scientists combine evolution, physics, and robotics to decode insect flight
Some insects' wings flap without brain input. Robots help us understand how.
First successful robotic liver transplant performed in the US
In an exciting step forward in surgery advances, the first liver transplant performed by a robot has successfully taken place in the US, as clinics plan to ramp up wider use of this innovative…
Why teaching robots to blink is hard but important
Blinking conveys more information than you might think and it's hard to make robots do it properly.
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.
Life Evolves. Can Attempts to Create ‘Artificial Life’ Evolve, Too?
Do efforts to create life—by cooking up imitations in computers, robots and molecules—point toward a universal definition of biology?
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.
You will lose your job to a robot—and sooner than you think
Automation helped bring on the age of Trump. What will AI bring?
Thought Leaders
We monitor hundreds of thought leaders, influencers, and newsletters in Robotics, including:
Kate Darling
Human-robot interaction, tech policy & ethics at MIT @medialab. she/her. Author of "The New Breed": http://rb.gy/uykksn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a world leader in research and education. Related accounts: @MITevents @MITstudents @MIT_alumni
The Robot Report
Exploring the business and applications of robotics. http://TheRobotReport.com has a worldwide database and global map of thousands of companies in robotics.
Open Robotics
Our mission is to support development, distribution, and adoption of open source software like #ROS and #Gazebo for use in the robotics industry. Formerly OSRF.
NCCR Robotics
We are a Swiss centre funded by SNSF hosted by @EPFL_en & @ETH_en, working to develop new, human-oriented robotic technology for improving our quality of life
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