The app store for robots has arrived: Hugging Face launches open-source Reachy Mini App Store with 200+ apps

The new Hugging Face Reachy Mini App Store already hosts a library of over 200 community-built applications, and Reachy Mini ...

Man 3D prints a chatty C-3PO head powered by AI

Need proof? Sam Potozkin, a Chapman University business analyst and robot enthusiast in Orange County, California, spent ...
Interesting Engineering

DIY robot head inspired by Star Wars’ C-3PO droid comes to life with local AI

Fan-built C-3PO head becomes a talking desktop robot, combining 3D printing and AI voice tech for interactive home use.
Hackaday

Building A C-3PO You Can Really Talk To

C-3PO is one of the more famous movie robots out there. However, we don’t see a lot of replicas built, perhaps because in ...
CNX Software

SamuRoid – A Raspberry Pi-powered 22-DOF humanoid robot with Multimodal LLMs and ROS support

Shenzhen Xiao R Geek Technology (XiaoR GEEK) SamuRoid is a 22-DOF bionic humanoid robot built around a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. Designed for researchers, educators, and robotics developers, the robot ...
Forbes

World-First: Humanoid Robot On Live Industrial-Scale Electronics Production Line

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The Agibot R2 wheeled humanoid robot working on a Longcheer tablet production line. Agibot’s ...
BGR

This Raspberry Pi Project Builds A Star Wars Lightsaber - Here's How

Lightsabers are easily the most iconic and popular piece of tech from "Star Wars." Who wouldn't want to own a metallic wand that can produce a three-foot beam of plasma that can cut through almost ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Former Chicago Daily News building could be in line for landmark status

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The Washington Post

Musk has a plan to make human labor obsolete. Billionaires are joining in.

In the utopia proposed by Elon Musk, billions of robots perform all necessary work. A network of autonomous vehicles and humanoids, fueled by solar energy, provide boundless resources. Poverty is ...
The Daily Record (Maryland)

Transource could build power line next year through part of MD

An energy company is again taking steps to build a 29-mile-long transmission line with 130-foot-tall steel monopoles through the Cumberland Valley, partly in Western Maryland. Transource Energy held ...
Carscoops

Building A Dumber Headless Robot Was This Automaker’s Smarter Move

Whether you like it or not, humanoid robots are edging closer to real factory work, and Renault is preparing to put them on the line. The automaker plans to deploy 350 humanoid robots across its ...
Reuters

US and allies move to build missiles and drones closer to Asia's flashpoints

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - A U.S.-led defense manufacturing partnership agreed to launch a new missile motor production program with Japan, push forward a drone cooperation effort across Asia ...