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  • 01
    IEEE Honors Robotics Pioneer Toshio Fukuda
    Toshio Fukuda has been blazing trails for most of his career. He is considered to be one of the most prolific scholars in robotics , writing more than 2,000 research papers and authoring several books on the field. He’s an influential figure thanks to his pioneering work developing biomedical robotic systems, industrial robots, micro-nano robotics, mechatronics, and AI-driven automation. Fukuda launched one of the first robotics conferences, the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RKathy Pretz
  • 02
    Japan Pioneered Humanoid Robots—Can It Now Catch China?
    “In the future, the relationship between humans and robots will deepen, and the distinction between them will probably disappear.” This prediction, from one of the attendees at the recent Humanoids Summit in Tokyo , might have been unremarkable had it not come directly from an android that was first introduced to the world 20 years ago. Geminoid HI-6 is the sixth-generation of a robot originally designed in 2006. The mechanical twin of Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro , Geminoid HI-6 Tim Hornyak
  • 03
    Video Friday: An Earthbound Mars Rover for the Moon
    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RSS 2026 : 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems : 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUE Actuate 2026 : 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCO IROS 2026 : 27 September–1 October 2026, PITTSBURGH Enjoy today’s videos! NASA is considering a missionEvan Ackerman
  • 04
    Video Friday: Give Robots a Hand
    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RSS 2026 : 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems : 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUE Actuate 2026 : 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCO IROS 2026 : 27 September–1 October 2026, PITTSBURGH Enjoy today’s videos! The best way of introducing aEvan Ackerman
  • 05
    Video Friday: Do Robots Even Need Legs?
    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RSS 2026 : 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems : 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUE Actuate 2026 : 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCO IROS 2026 : 27 September–1 October 2026, PITTSBURGH Enjoy today’s videos! Eno is our first agentic roboEvan Ackerman
  • 06
    What Amazon’s Astro Taught Me About Giving Robots a Soul
    In 2018, Amazon brought me in as the lead UX Sound Designer for Astro, its first consumer home robot . Astro used cameras and other sensors to map and navigate your home and workplace , and could proactively patrol, check up on loved ones, and transport small items using its built-in cargo bin. While there was a well-defined feature set and form factor, initially there was no character direction. In fact, even before Astro had a name, there were two main questions—was it simply Alexa on wheels, Mike Forst
  • 07
    The Secret to Marathon-Winning Humanoid Robots
    On 19 April 2026, the Honor Lightning humanoid robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds , beating the human world record by 7 minutes and the best robot time from 2025 by almost 2 hours. How did Honor do it? Is there some magical technology or technique that unlocked this performance? How did the company beat the significantly better-known Unitree (which reportedly had to supply its robot with an ice backpack to try and complete the race without overheating)? My doctoral thesis invAvik De
  • 08
    Visual Language Models Train Robots to Read Human Emotions
    This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. As robots advance in terms of dexterity and other physical capabilities , it becomes more likely that humans may find themselves working alongside them. If that happens, how will robots’ emotional capabilities need to advance for them to successfully work with people? In a recent study, researchers trained collaborative robots to read human emotions by not only accounting for facial expressions, but Michelle Hampson
  • 09
    Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses
    Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elementary school piqued her curiosity about the natural world. During that time, she was introduced to Logo , a computer program with a turtle cursor to help children learn basic coding through hands-on experimentation. It was Kuo’s introduction to programming logic. Yen-Ling Kuo Employer University of Virginia in Charlottesville Title Assistant professor of comLiz Wegerer
  • 10
    Video Friday: Robotic Motion Discovery Reveals Unusual Behaviors
    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RSS 2026 : 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems : 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUE Actuate 2026 : 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCO Enjoy today’s videos! We present MotionDisco, a framework that discovers contact-rich, long-horizon humEvan Ackerman
  • 11
    Defining Autonomy for Wellness Robots in Senior Care
    An examination of how socially assistive wellness robots could support the seven dimensions of senior wellness, and how a framework can measure their autonomy. What Attendees will Learn Why the senior care crisis exceeds incremental automation. Demographic pressure, workforce shortages, and a daily wellness-programming gap all strain traditional care models. What defines a wellness robot as a category. The seven ICAA wellness dimensions and eight properties separate these robots from companion aDreamface Technologies
  • 12
    Beyond Dexterity: Why Contact May Define the Next Era of Robotics
    This article is brought to you by AGILINK . Throughout the exhibition hall at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics (ICRA), in Vienna, one demonstration seemed to attract a disproportionate amount of attention. Two robotic hands were making a balloon dog. Slowly and deliberately, the robot twisted a long balloon into loops, bends, and joints without popping it. Visitors stopped, watched, and often returned with colleagues to watch again. AGILINK’s balloon dog demonstration draws a cAgilink
  • 13
    How JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science
    Thirteen years ago last August, I was camped out in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory press room in Pasadena, Calif., waiting to see whether the Curiosity rover would survive its descent and skycrane-assisted landing on the surface of Mars. It did, and it was awesome . Since then, Curiosity (also known as Mars Science Laboratory) has traveled nearly 37 kilometers , drilled into and sampled 42 different rocks , and as of publication has snapped nearly 763,000 photos . The fact that this robot is sEvan Ackerman
  • 14
    Video Friday: Watch This Running Robot Not Fall Down Stairs
    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RSS 2026 : 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems : 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUE Actuate 2026 : 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCO Enjoy today’s videos! It’s been a while since a humanoid robot video actually impressed me, but the begEvan Ackerman
  • 15
    This DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic “Air-Muscles” Instead of Motors
    In 1987, Richard Greenhill , a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size humanoid that could do useful things, like carrying luggage. He was working at a startup called Intergalactic Robots, but he couldn’t convince anyone there to build such a machine, so he set about building one himself, in his attic. To help with his project, he organized a weekly get-together of a dozen or so like-minded folks. Every WednesdayAllison Marsh
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    Video Friday: Extreme Omnidirectional Robot
    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2026 : 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA RSS 2026 : 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems : 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUE Actuate 2026 : 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCO Enjoy today’s videos! What is the right number of legs for a robot? TEvan Ackerman
  • 17
    Video Friday: Atlas Versus a Fridge
    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2026 : 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA RSS 2026 : 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems : 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUE Actuate 2026 : 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCO Enjoy today’s videos! Just months after its debut, Atlas is proving wEvan Ackerman
  • 18
    Open-Source Software Is Starting to Help Robots Think
    When a group of academics started making open-source robotics hardware , a generation of roboticists got years of their lives back. Now, the bigger challenge is getting robots to think—and that’s starting to be open sourced too. The shift is still early, but companies including Hugging Face, Nvidia, and Alibaba have all made significant bets on open-source robotics in the last two years, releasing tools and models aimed at the higher-level work of getting robots to reason, decide, and act. The oJackie Snow
  • 19
    The Future of Physical AI Isn’t Smarter Robots, It’s Smarter Interfaces
    This sponsored article is brought to you by Wetour Robotics . A field technician on a wind turbine, harness clipped, both hands on a wrench, needs to send a command to the diagnostic device hanging at her belt. A logistics worker on a loading dock, gloves on, eyes on the pallet, needs to redirect a connected lift. A person using an assistive mobility device on a crowded street wants to nudge it forward without taking out a phone or speaking aloud. None of these moments call for a smarter robot. Wetour Robotics
  • 20
    Will Robotics Have a ChatGPT Moment?
    Over the next few decades, billions of autonomous, AI-powered robots will work alongside people in factories, perform tedious tasks in warehouses, care for the elderly, assist in unsafe disaster areas , deliver packages and food to our doorsteps, and eventually help out in our homes. Some will look like us, and many won’t. What is certain is that regardless of form factor, robots will all rely heavily on AI in order to deliver real-world value. In 2025, total investments in robotics companies reHans Peter Brondmo
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Biomedical
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  • 01
    How a Google DeepMind Spin-off Hunts Hidden Drug Targets
    For more than a decade, artificial intelligence has been touted as a way to dramatically accelerate drug discovery . Yet despite billions of dollars in investment, relatively few AI-designed medicines have made it to patients. That’s partially because the timelines for careful drug testing can’t be easily compressed—and partially because drug development is just really hard. Isomorphic Labs , the Google DeepMind spin-off that’s building on DeepMind’s Nobel Prize-winning work on protein structureEliza Strickland
  • 02
    Ultrasound Patch Could Form Future Pacemaker
    With the reliability of a quality wristwatch, pacemakers send out electric pulses to keep your heart beating at a steady rate. But unlike a watch, when the batteries need replacement, it’s a surgical affair—one that can be required as often as every five years . While the risks of having a pacemaker implanted are low, going under the knife always creates the potential for complications. A group of California and Massachusetts scientists have developed a pacemaker that works without requiring surAlex Music
  • 03
    Could This Blood-Filtering Device Help Treat Ebola?
    As the deadly Bundibugyo strain of Ebola continues to ravage parts of Central Africa, physicians once again find themselves scrambling for ways to keep the sickest patients alive. Existing antibody treatments are strain-specific and don’t target the virus responsible for the current outbreak, leaving few therapies capable of clearing virus from the bloodstream. This forces doctors to rely largely on supportive care for people in advanced stages of disease. That treatment gap is reviving interestElie Dolgin
  • 04
    Poetry for Engineers: Cyborg Laboratory
    This is the place where you face yourself, the you that could be you with a few different parts, a pump for your heart, eyes off color, and fresh off the shelf fake hair (a bit obvious), skin smoothed. You’re not perfect, but it’s a good start. Down to small digits, you’ll be improved. Memory maintained by small motors, as long as these gizmos don’t glitch. What’s before you? Full replacement or a constant game of test and switch, pieces peeled off, disconnected, removed, until you are not yoursPaul Jones
  • 05
    Leap in DNA Synthesis Slashes Time to Build New Genetic Sequences
    A new method for writing DNA promises to unlock the potential of generative AI in biology, giving scientists a fast, affordable, and accurate way to physically build the novel genetic sequences that predictive models are now producing faster than anyone can construct them. The technique, called Sidewinder, can assemble dozens of genetic sequences simultaneously in a single test tube, producing just one incorrect junction for every 10 million assembly events—a level of precision that far surpasseElie Dolgin
  • 06
    System Boosts Speech Volume Based on Brain Signals
    It can be difficult to carry on conversation in a crowded public setting, and even more so with any degree of hearing loss. But what if you could amplify only the person you wanted to hear and suppress the rest ? What if a computer could do that automatically by reading your brain? When we focus on a particular person talking, we subconsciously track the gradual modulations in speech volume, which vary from speaker to speaker. This characteristic pattern appears in the brain activity of the listGreg Uyeno
  • 07
    Developers: Get Your Medical Mobile App Verified By IEEE
    Patients who use mobile applications to manage medical conditions including depression and chronic pain might assume the apps have been evaluated by regulatory agencies to be safe and effective. But that isn’t necessarily the case. Most of the more than 55,000 medical apps that claim to diagnose or treat a condition—or ones that provide clinical decision support, known as “therapeutic” apps—have never been assessed by any trusted neutral bodies or regulatory agencies to evaluate them for technicKathy Pretz
  • 08
    Can AI Chatbots Reason Like Doctors?
    One of the earliest stated goals for computing in medicine was to aid in clinical reasoning: the decision-making steps required to reach a diagnosis and form a treatment plan. And over the years, researchers have built many clinical decision support systems, which have typically been purpose-built, with painstakingly written rules about symptoms, test thresholds, and medication interactions. As artificial intelligence capabilities develop, clinical reasoning is a natural application. Now, a largGreg Uyeno
  • 09
    Chatbots Need Guardrails to Prevent Delusions and Psychosis
    Millions of people worldwide are turning to chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude, and a proliferating class of specialized AI companionship apps for friendship, therapy, or even romance. While some users report psychological benefits from these simulated relationships, research has also shown the relationships can reinforce or amplify delusions, particularly among users already vulnerable to psychosis. AIs have been linked to multiple suicides, including the death of a Florida teenager who had a montStephen Cousins
  • 10
    Bionic Tech Must Prove Itself Beyond the Lab
    I first met Robert Woo in 2011, during his third time walking in a powered exoskeleton . The architect had been paralyzed in a construction accident four years earlier, but he was determined to get back on his feet. Watching him clunk across a rehab room in an exoskeleton prototype, the technology felt astonishing. I had the same reaction when reporting on early brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), which enabled paralyzed people to move robotic arms or communicate by thought alone . Both types of bEliza Strickland
  • 11
    Do We Really Need Smarter AI to Cure Cancer?
    By some estimates, more than a trillion dollars have already been invested in artificial intelligence. But large tech companies , including Meta and OpenAI, are still not content with today’s AI; they say they’ve set their sights on powerful, versatile AI that by some measure would match or even exceed human performance. A remarkable amount of resources is being poured into developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) or even more capable artificial super intelligence (ASI). Excitement arounGreg Uyeno
  • 12
    Chips Sense Free Radicals With Speed
    When things go bad—be it beer, batteries, or blood—they generate a certain class of molecules called free radicals. Scientists use a technique called electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy to pick up the concentration and identities of free radicals, but today’s equipment relies on huge, heavy magnets. Groups of researchers in California, Germany, and now France have been inventing ways to shrink the whole spectroscopy system onto a chip, so scientists can take the instrument into thSamuel K. Moore
  • 13
    Can Biologists Rewrite the Genome’s Spaghetti Code?
    What if biology stopped being something we study and started becoming something we design? That’s the premise of Adrian Woolfson ’s new book, On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence , which published on 28 April from MIT Press . He argues that advances in AI and DNA synthesis are pushing biology toward an engineering paradigm—one in which scientists can generate new genetic sequences and eventually build organisms to order. He calls this emerging cEliza Strickland
  • 14
    Engineering Collisions: How NYU Is Remaking Health Research
    This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering . The traditional approach to academic research goes something like this: Assemble experts from a discipline, put them in a building, and hope something useful emerges. Biology departments do biology. Engineering departments do engineering. Medical schools treat patients. NYU is turning that model inside out. At its new Institute for Engineering Health , the organizing principle centers around disease states rather thanThomas Machinchick
  • 15
    Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma
    More than 80 million people suffer from glaucoma globally , making it the second most common cause of blindness worldwide. The disease—caused by elevated internal eye pressure damaging the optic nerve—is incurable, but its progression can be slowed with drugs to control eye pressure. Now, researchers have developed an electronics-free smart contact lens that can track the disease in real time and also deliver drugs in response. The all-polymer lens includes a microfluidic sensor that monitors eyEdd Gent
  • 16
    What It’s Like to Live With an Experimental Brain Implant
    Scott Imbrie vividly remembers the first time he used a robotic arm to shake someone’s hand and felt the robotic limb as if it were his own. “I still get goosebumps when I think about that initial contact,” he says. “It’s just unexplainable.” The moment came courtesy of a brain implant: an array of electrodes that let him control a robotic arm and receive tactile sensations back to the brain. Getting there took decades. In 1985, Imbrie had woken up in the hospital after a car accident with a broEdd Gent
  • 17
    Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand
    By many estimates, quantum computers will need millions of qubits to realize their potential applications in cybersecurity, drug development, and other industries. The problem is, anyone who has wanted to simultaneously control millions of a certain kind of qubit has run into the problem of trying to control millions of laser beams. That’s exactly the challenge that was faced by scientists working on the MITRE Quantum Moonshot project , which brought together scientists from MITRE, MIT, the UnivVelvet Wu
  • 18
    Tiny Graphene Drums Let Doctors Identify Bacteria by Sound
    Identifying bacteria by sight can be quite difficult. Why not listen to them instead? Researchers at TU Delft in the Netherlands and the university’s spinoff company SoundCell think that bacterial infections could be diagnosed with sound. They’ve crafted a nanoscale drum kit that uses some of the world’s smallest percussion instruments to turn a bacterium’s motions into song . Previously, the Delft researchers showed that listening to a germ’s drumbeat could quickly screen it for antibiotic resiRahul Rao
  • 19
    “Living Pharmacy” Implant Keeps Drug-Producing Cells Alive Longer
    Cells that have been genetically engineered to produce drugs are a promising way to deliver medicines inside the human body, but keeping those cells alive is challenging. A new bioelectronic implant can now support populations of three different drug-producing cells for more than a month. The researchers behind the result say it’s a step toward “living pharmacies” that can deliver a range of drugs on demand. But another promising avenue involves using genetic engineering to turn cells into livinEdd Gent
  • 20
    Young Professional’s AI Tool Spots Mental Health Conditions
    Abhishek Appaji has committed his career to bringing lifesaving technology to underresourced communities. The IEEE senior member weaves together artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, deep learning, and neuroscience to make doctors’ jobs easier and to improve patient outcomes. “The intersection of these fields is where the most impactful breakthroughs in diagnostic precision occur,” says Appaji, an associate professor of medical electronics engineering at the B.M.S. College of EngineerAmanda Davis
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