Tiny BOT is a simple obstacle avoiding robot with two wheels that can be fabricated using a handful of generally available and inexpensive discrete components. The robot can perform avoidance ...

In the age of cheap sensors and microcontrollers, it’s easy to forget that there might be very simple mechanical solutions to a problem. [gzumwalt]’s 3D printed mechanical edge avoiding… ...

Dodging wires is the holy grail of robot vacuum obstacle avoidance By Patrick Hearn Published September 16, 2021 Save ... For example, if you have an extension cord piled up on the floor, ...

Robots are cool and all, even if some of them are creepy. I will be glad when the day rolls around that a robot can mow the lawn for me while I avoid the 160-degree summer heat in Texas.

We’re all pretty well-acquainted with the obstacle avoiding robot. These little inventions use a proximity sensor to detect an object in front of the robot, then circumvent the object accordi… ...

Other robot vacuums have used lidar to avoid pet poop, but ultimately, I want my robots to be able to “see” what’s in front of them and move around it — whether that obstacle is a hairball ...

A cute Arduino powered spherical quadruped robot has been created by Gregory Leveque, using an Arduino Nano, along with a 16-channel servo driver board.