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Piaggio Fast Forward is envisioning robots as a key to battling climate change.

A soft robot made from a twist of rubber can harvest heat energy and use it to roll across a variety of surfaces and even escape mazes

Nanoracks, will launch a NASA-funded experiment to demonstrate on-orbit metal cutting using a robotic arm. 

Advanced tech in farming promises to maximize crop yields, minimize the impact of climate change, and fight global food insecurity. Yet swift adoption without consideration of the risks may increase food-system vulnerabilities, intensify socio-economic inequality, and harm the environment.

Walmart and Symbotic announce an expansion of the deal that will install Symbotic systems into all of Walmart’s distribution centers in the U.S.

Loneliness is becoming a public health crisis all over the world. Can two Israeli AI-powered technologies help solve the problem?

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The conference was organized in three parts around the concepts of expressing, defining, and understanding intelligence.

On a recent trip to the Bay Area, I took a few hours to pay a visit to Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR). Professor Ken Goldberg walked me around the lab and introduced me to a couple of projects the students have been working on. FogROS immediately grabbed my attention — and not ...

Detroit — Wittmann Battenfeld will feature its newest robot programming tool, the R9 Quick New Wizard, at the Injection Molding & Design Expo, May 25-26 in Detroit's Huntington Center. R9 Quick New is designed to provide molders with an easier and more detailed tool for programming the…

A spacewalk by Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev outside the International Space Station (ISS) that was planned for May 19 has been postponed due to issues with the European Robotic Arm.

Amazon's cute little Astro robot has been scurrying its way around my apartment for the past few weeks. It has no arms to scratch its own head in confusion.

Aren’t ball races and marble runs fun? Wouldn’t they be so much more enjoyable if you didn’t have to climb back up the ladder each time, as it were, and reset the thing? [Johannes…

SHARON – Landing on a robotics team that has a robot constructed and engineered by its members was the culmination of its members serving several years on robotics teams.

Some argue that it’s safer, cheaper, and better for science if robots take the place of astronauts.

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The growth of "smart" farm machinery is increasing the risk of hacking of food and farming systems.

If you want to be at DeepMind, go for it. Apply, interview, and just try. You might not get it the first time but that doesn’t mean you can’t try again. I never thought DeepMind would accept me, and when they did, I thought it was a mistake. Everyone doubts themselves – I’ve never felt like the smar...

The team will head to the Kennedy Space Center later this month to compete against 47 other collegiate programs.

Despite having scored 764 career goals, PSG star Lionel Messi couldn't find the back of the net in a penalty shootout when face with a cardboard goalkeeping robot.

Coders gather in Bristol to program robots to sprint and do gymnastics at the Ministry of Defence event.