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If your close combat simulation droid isn't chatty enough, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has your back. It's awarded a contract to combat training specialist company 4GD to add ChatGPT language models to its SimStriker robot targets.

"The intention is not to start from the beginning and say, 'Hey, we're trying to make a robot look like a person,'" said Jonathan Hurst, co-founder and chief robot officer at Agility Robotics. "We're trying to make robots that can operate in human spaces."

The latest “da Vinci” surgical system comes to Saint Mary’s Hospital.

In the birthplace of Italian sculpture, a powerful automated machine tries its hand at an ancient craft

Plus, slice shop Upside adds a soup spot — and more intel

Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge, other CPD staff and our WCPO 9 team got an inside look Thursday at how these security robots work.

Scientists have created tiny living robots from human cells that can move around in a lab dish and may one day be able to help heal wounds or damaged tissue, according to a new study.

An inspection design method by which mobile robots can inspect large pipe structures has been demonstrated with the successful inspection of multiple defects on a 3-m-long steel pipe using guided acoustic wave sensors.

E-SOAM, an octopus-inspired robot arm, marks a significant advancement in soft robotics by integrating stretchable electronics for enhanced human-robot interaction. Its unique design offers dexterity and sensory feedback, mimicking octopus movements.

Traditionally, robot arms have been controlled either by joysticks, buttons, or very carefully programmed routines. However, for [Narongporn Laosrisin’s] homebrew build, they decided to go wi…

With a 30 kg lifting capacity and 1,300 mm reach, the UR30 can tend larger machines, palletize heavy products and support high-torque screwdriving.

Nature - Google DeepMind tool predicts nearly 400,000 stable substances, and an autonomous system learns to make them in the lab.

This could be a gamechanger in building maintenance, a $30 billion industry.

Robotics company Greensea IQ has launched its most advanced EverClean service robot to date.The company says the improvements represent…

Engineers at Princeton University and Google have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don’t know. The technique involves quantifying the fuzziness of human language and using that measurement to tell robots when to ask for further directions. Telling a robot to pick up a bowl fr...

Through Wiregrass Best, Students compete outside of the playing field and classroom in robotics.

Airtouch Solar has signed an agreement with Adani Green Energy Limited for robotic cleaning systems for a 150 MW solar plant

Splitting a drone's prop motor in half and mounting it in a 3D-printed wheel should give Rawal's future robots a serious speed boost.

The nuclear stakes of putting too much trust in AI.

Westworld meets Dungeon Keeper in this characterful city-builder, where you design the perfect town for a population of robots

[EXTREME3DPRINT] has a new version of their print-in-place tank chassis: the PiPBOT now accepts drop-in motors (in the form of 360° rotation servos), RC receiver, and battery pack to make a functio…

Aigen is using solar-powered autonomous robots to change the future of farming. #k5evening

Slideshow: Autonomy was hot at Germany’s big farm show, and familiar companies got into the game.