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.

Revive Your Old Tech: Running a Local LLM on a 12-Year-Old Raspberry Pi

Discover how a 12-year-old Raspberry Pi successfully runs a local LLM using Falcon H1 Tiny and 4-bit quantization.

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 18 months.
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 ...
IEEE

Stair-Climbing Strategy of a Leg-Wheel Transformable Robot Using Visual Feedback and Varying Leg-Wheel Contact Points

Abstract: Staircases represent one of the most challenging terrains commonly encountered in urban environments. This paper presents a comprehensive stair-climbing strategy for a leg–wheel ...
IEEE

Topo-Geometrically Distinct Path Computation Using Neighborhood-Augmented Graph, and Its Application to Path Planning for a Tethered Robot in 3-D

Abstract: Many robotics applications benefit from being able to compute multiple geodesic paths in a given configuration space. Existing paradigm is to use topological path planning, which can compute ...