Siri and Apple Home can now control Matic Robots vacuum/mop, here’s how it works

Inside the Apple Home app, you can control Matic in the same way. Controls let you vacuum, mop, and vacuum and mop specific ...
Hackaday

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. It looks exactly like a 2 kg spool of filament; that’s real filament ...
UPI

Hyundai Motor donates unmanned firefighting robots

Feb. 25 (Asia Today) --Hyundai Motor Group said Tuesday it has donated four unmanned firefighting robots to the National Fire Agency, expanding its long-running support for firefighters from ...
Wired

Government Docs Reveal New Details About Tesla and Waymo Robotaxis’ Human Babysitters

Are self-driving vehicles really just big, remote-controlled cars, with nameless and faceless people in far-off call centers piloting the things from behind consoles? As the vehicles and their science ...
Medical Xpress

Remote-controlled CAR-T cells use venetoclax to disengage from tumors

Among the most promising tools of cancer therapy, engineered immune cells known as chimeric antigen-receptor (CAR) T cells have already transformed the treatment of blood cancers. Yet, despite their ...
Inc

Using an AI Tool, 1 Owner Accidentally Controlled Thousands of Robot Vacuums

Sammy Azdoufal used Claude Code to build an app to link his brand-new DJI Romo vacuum to a PS5 controller. Then he noticed something strange. The app wasn’t just controlling his vacuum. It was ...
IEEE

Design of Hand Gesture Controlled Robot using Arduino

Abstract: Robot control systems have been evolving at a faster rate in recent years, with the use of contemporary tools and methods, we will create a gesture-controlled robot in this project. This ...
The Verge

The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor, this man remotely accessed thousands of them

The immediate threat may be fixed, but this raises serious questions. The immediate threat may be fixed, but this raises serious questions. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who ...
Geeky Gadgets

DIY $60 Quadruped Robot : Build a Custom Walker That Actually Feels Alive

Have you ever dreamed of building your own walking robot but felt overwhelmed by the complexity or cost? Dorian Todd explores how the Sesame Project makes robotics more accessible than ever, offering ...
THE WEEK

Russia’s ‘cyborg’ spy pigeons

For thousands of years, humans have trained pigeons to race, deliver messages and “spy behind enemy lines”, said Bloomberg. “What would happen if people could bypass the training and steer their bird ...
Wall Street Journal

China Trains AI-Controlled Weapons With Learning From Hawks, Coyotes

Engineers studying drone combat at one of China’s top military-linked universities needed a way to simulate clashes between drone swarms in real time. They turned to nature for inspiration. Observing ...