I built my own Wi-Fi router with a Raspberry Pi for Starlink and solar control - here's how

This custom Wi-Fi router works off-grid with Starlink and can control my solar power station. Here's how I went about it.

A robot is helping an ailing couple stay in their home. Are more to come for an aging population?

The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike — spurred on by fictional machines like The ...

This Trump-linked startup plans to put humanoid robots in the military

With ties to the Trump family, Foundation Robotics Labs is aiming to deploy humanoid robots in the military in the next 12 to ...
Nature

Robots run this laboratory in Japan — and are changing how scientists work

Researchers hope to build a facility with thousands of robots capable of performing experiments independently by 2040.
Hackaday

serial router

For those of you that don’t know, the Heathkit HERO (Heathkit Educational Robot) was a ‘bot built in the early 1980s. [Rick] wasn’t satisfied with his model ETW-18’s programming interface, so decided ...
CNX Software

Convert old IR remote controls into presentation clickers using an RP2040 USB board and open-source TTVKTR firmware

Brisk4t’s “Tossed The TV — Kept The Remote” (TTVKTR) is an open-source firmware project for Raspberry Pi RP2040 USB boards that aims to reduce electronics waste by converting old IR remote controls ...
IEEE

Map Making in Social Indoor Environment Through Robot Navigation Using Active SLAM

Abstract: Robotics has come a long way from industrial robotic arms and is all set to enter our homes. The capability of a robot to navigate in an unknown human populated environment with obstacles ...
IEEE

Deploying MANET on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Test Bench Using the B.A.T.M.A.N. Protocol

Abstract: Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a non-centralized, self-regulating, easy-to-deploy wireless ad hoc network that can be found in specific applications such as military scenarios, sensor ...