Robotics

Many robots are connected devices that move: they carry sensors and cameras, run AI on board and talk to apps and clouds. Guides on humanoids, robots for the home, embodied AI, what robots record, the rules that apply and robots in industry.

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In a lived-in kitchen, a light-grey household robot with a black visor sets a cup of tea in front of a smiling elderly woman, while her adult son watches from the doorway with his arms crossed

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China robotics brief

Weekly

Robots and humanoids in China, from primary sources: ministries, stock exchange filings, company announcements and papers. Each story quotes the original Chinese, with our translation and why it matters.

Home robots

2 guides

Robot vacuums, lawn mowers, companion robots and the apps and hubs that run them.

Embodied AI

1 guide

The AI that runs on board a robot: seeing, planning and moving in the physical world.

Privacy & security

1 guide

What a robot records, where the data goes and how to keep a machine with wheels and cameras safe.

Related terms in the glossary

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  • ActuatorA component that turns an electrical command into a physical action, such as opening a valve, switching a relay or moving a motor.
  • LiDARA sensing method that measures distance by timing reflected laser pulses, producing precise range readings or full 3D point clouds of the surroundings.
  • Sensor fusionCombining data from several sensors so the result is more accurate, complete or reliable than any single sensor could provide on its own.
  • Computer visionThe field of extracting information from images and video with software, from reading a gauge to tracking people and vehicles.
  • Object detectionA computer vision task that finds objects in an image and returns both a class label and a bounding box for each one.
  • Edge AIRunning machine learning inference directly on or near the device that produces the data, instead of sending everything to a cloud service first.
  • Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)A European Union regulation that sets mandatory cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements, including IoT devices, across their entire lifecycle.