Inside a UNC-Chapel Hill Science lab sits an autonomous robot. Imagine a machine like a Roomba, but with an arm, so it can pick up things like a dirty sock off the floor. A group of researchers from ...

From R2-D2 to Optimus Prime, Wall-E to The Iron Giant, robots have long captured our collective imaginations. In today’s world, their influence is far less limited to fictional settings; robotics are ...

Facebook has lifted the curtain on its robotics research. On Monday, the company published a blog post detailing three of its robotics projects. Each focuses on finding ways for robots to teach ...

The Raspberry Pi Pico is not like traditional Raspberry Pi models. It's not even similar to the compact Raspberry Pi Zero. While other models are microcomputers, the Raspberry Pi Pico is a ...

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

The project utilizes two PIC16F84 microcontrollers to control a robot through a serial RF link using joystick interface. The TX/RX pair and the serial communication built into the PIC Basic ...

If one were to enter room D14 at Mahan Hall, perhaps an aspiring student would be humbled by the setting. What was once a relatively spacious storage room became a makeshift laboratory for Class of ...

It’s the metal, plastic, and wires that give the robot its shape and allow it to move around. Engineers in this field design ...