The chipmaker’s acquisition brings its Dragonwing-powered board and new AppLab development environment to a 33 million–strong open-source community.

Qualcomm on Tuesday said it has acquired Arduino, an Italian not-for-profit firm that makes hardware and software for developing prototypes of robots and other electronic gadgets.

Industrial robots like robotic arms are basically everywhere, albeit usually out of the public’s eye in factories. This also means that they get replaced and scrapped all the time, making ...

On September 29th, the Linux Foundation announced that it is contributing Newton, a next-generation, GPU-accelerated physics engine, as a fully open, community-governed project. This move aims to ...

Elon Musk has repeatedly promised that Tesla’s humanoid robot revolution is just around the corner. So far, however, his Optimus prototypes seem to spend most of their time mixing cocktails and ...

Which philosophy they will learn to think. Can a walled garden outlast an open field, or will openness inevitably prevail?

Shanghai-based robotics firm Fourier unveiled a striking demonstration of its N1 humanoid robot, showcasing gymnastic abilities highlighting its dynamic control and hardware strength. The company ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt feels that the US is lagging behind China when it comes to practical applications and needs to prioritise consumer apps and open-source initiatives to maintain ...