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Another round of safety training commenced on Wednesday, July 27, on the International Space Station. In addition to this, the Expedition 69 crew members embarked on various tasks including robotic activities, ultrasound scans, and station maintenance. Astrobee Robotic Activities Sultan Alneyadi,

Achieving human-level dexterity during manipulation and grasping has been a long-standing goal in robotics. To accomplish this, having a reliable sense of tactile information and force is essential for ...

Our sneak peek into Google’s new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligence technology with robots.

Astronaut Frank Rubio aboard the International Space Station collaborated with a small team of robots on Earth to accomplish a complex task—a first test of a new approach to combine human and robotic ...

Inspections of tall metal structures or machines can be difficult for people to perform up-close and in person, and while aerial drones may help, their limited battery life is a problem. That's where the magnetic-footed Magnecko robot is intended to come in.

Were these the first robots? “Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend,” by Elizabeth King and W. David Todd (Getty Publications, 245 pp., $45) by Bondo Wyszpolski The…

In this episode, we replay the keynote fireside chat between Steve Crowe and Marc Raibert from the 2023 Robotics Summit & Expo.

Trenton police deployed bomb defusal robots after a possible bomb was found near a Metro by T-Mobile story on Route 206.

Engineers are putting chatbots into mechanical bodies, with entrancing and unsettling results.

Collaborative Robotics announces $30 million to “begin the process of scaling . . . and manufacturing of their novel cobot.”

FISHERS, Ind. (WISH) — Robots have officially taken over some assisted living centers, but one in Fishers is enjoying their new friend “Robbie.” American Senior Communities added unique members to some of their communities, including Allisonville Meadows Assisted Living in Fishers. The residents at ...

Iris Ohyama, a Japanese maker of appliances for the home, has made plans to acquire Smile Robotics, a serving robot developer.

Astronaut Frank Rubio aboard the International Space Station collaborated with a small team of robots on Earth to accomplish a complex task – a first test of a new approach to combine human and robotic capabilities for our return to the Moon and beyond. 

Geckos' unique ability to climb across anything from a dry desert floor to a cold mountain top without leaving any sticky residue behind is the inspiration for many wall crawling robots, but for the first ...

A new machine-learning technique can efficiently learn to control a robot, leading to better performance with fewer data.

Deploying a motley crew of robots that can roll, walk and fly is a strategy for search-and-rescue operations.

Meditation practices can often positively influence the lives of practitioners, for instance, improving their emotional well-being, reducing stress levels and increasing their focus on daily activities. ...

Some jobs just need the human touch to work, even with automated assistance

The photo shows a ground robot carrying a MON-200 mine, a brutal weapon packed with about 12 kilograms of explosives and 900 steel rod fragments.

/PRNewswire/ -- Hongkong Post and Geek+ have teamed up to implement its first robotic packet sorting system. Combining Geek+'s advanced sorting and moving...

EPFL STUDENT PROJECT – Intelligent robots - for search and rescue, exploration and surveillance - are a new

WAUKESHA, WI—Husco's in-house automation team designed a robotic assembly system that can produce more than 2 million solenoids annually. 

Asteroids come in many shapes and sizes. Most are spherical, though many have a feature that can make them difficult to land on – they are essentially just collections of rocks loosely bound together by gravity. In space exploration jargon, they are known as “rubble piles.” Many of the asteroids hum...