The United States may already be producing most of the critical minerals it needs, but much of that material is currently going unused. A new statistical study led by Elizabeth Holley and her research team shows that valuable minerals could be…
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Joby Air Taxi to Transform Urban Mobility in Dubai
Ten years ago, ride-sharing giant Uber embraced a sci-fi future in which clean, quiet electric aircraft would shuttle passengers around crowded cities. Uber’s well-funded Elevate initiative, which included a white paper and three high-profile…
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Videos: Holiday Robot Helpers, Dancing Robots, and More
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.
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Humanoid Hype Dominates Top Robotics Stories of 2025
Usually, I start off these annual highlights posts by saying that it was the best year ever for robotics. But this year, I’m not so sure. At the end of 2024, it really seemed like AI and humanoid robots were poised to make a transformative…
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Drones Tackle Wildfires in XPrize Competition
To the untrained eye, it did not look like a particularly complicated mission. A large black quadcopter drone, more than two meters spanning the propeller tips, sat parked on the grass. Nestled between the legs of its landing gear was a red…
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The real reason incomes rise and why they drop
Economists use the term “income mobility” to describe how easily people or families can move up or down the income scale compared with others in their community. It reflects whether financial positions tend to stay fixed or change over time.
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Robot Videos: Happy Holidays, Mars Rover Record, More
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ICRA 2026: 1–5 June…
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Why the iRobot Bankruptcy Didn’t Surprise Ex-CEO
On Sunday evening, the legendary robotics company iRobot, manufacturer of the Roomba robotic vacuum, filed for bankruptcy. The company will be handing over all of its assets to its Chinese manufacturing partner, Picea. According to iRobot’s…
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Ghost Robotics Adds Arm to Vision 60 Quadruped
Ghost Robotics is today announcing a major upgrade for their Vision 60 quadruped: an arm. Ghost, a company which originated at the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, specializes in exceptionally rugged quadrupeds, and while many of its…
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Robot Videos: Biorobotics, Robot EV Charging, and More
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