Dubbed the “Robot Radio” by [Brek], this clinking-&-clunking project merges three generations of hackers’ favorite technologies: robots, vacuum tubes, and microcontrollers. After the human ...

Prof Mingmin Zhao (right) has been working on a radio vision system for robots If you want to find out whether your robot can see through smoke, well, you're going to need some smoke. But a University ...

The robot operates on millimeter-wave radio frequencies, similar to those used in some 5G networks. "That's potentially very attractive; it's a very well-understood, cheap technology," Reinhard said.

"My student called me. He was very surprised." The incident was a minor setback for the team developing a robot equipped with a innovative radio-based sensing system. Radio waves could allow ...