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Robots are featuring more and more in our daily lives. They can be incredibly useful (bionic limbs, robotic lawnmowers, or robots which deliver meals to people in quarantine), or merely entertaining (robotic ...

A device that can be controlled by a user’s brain has achieved unprecedented accuracy in tests and could be used at the Chinese space station, scientists say.

I’ve suddenly found myself writing a lot about agtech of late. Maybe it’s because spring officially sprung over the weekend – or perhaps it’s that pesky impending environmental collapse that’s frequently top of mind. Whatever the case, I’ve mostly been lamenting a general lack of traction among robo...

A Korean Barbeque restaurant in Boise is putting a futuristic touch on its service. At Magnificent Garden on Milwaukee St., robots wheel up to customers’ tables to deliver food. Chris Stewart was dining at the restaurant with his fiance for the all-you-can-eat lunch special. He says a server brought...

Skyline scores $6.5M to wash windows with robot arms

Growing pharma and biotech R&D investments and a drive to improve efficiency are driving growth in the global laboratory robotics market.

Queen, Honey and Bumble replaced an existing group of floating bots and serve as an upgrade on the ISS.

It’s been a little less than a year since we first noted Rugged Robotics. The Houston-based startup developed a robot that prints building layouts on the floor of construction sites, so workers know where — and where not — to build. The “layout Roomba,” as the company puts it. At the time, the compa...

Engineers at Johns Hopkins University are developing a surgical robot that could perform simple procedures such as sewing together arteries or intestines without guidance from surgeons, unlike current surgical assistant robots.

Like something from a horror film, the new robot's 'magnetic tentacle' would slowly creep into the mouth of a patient under under general anesthesia, University of Leeds scientists show.

This isn't an episode of Black Mirror -- it's a potential medical advancement.

In a first among cities where Amazon is testing its Scout delivery system, Kirkland has imposed a moratorium while safety and zoning issues get further study.

The InSight observatory has a seismometer and a heat probe, which have enabled it to gather data on rock layers below the planet's soil

Researchers at University of Washington have recently developed a new protocol to train robots and test their performance on tasks that involve object manipulation. This protocol, presented in a paper ...

[Peng Zhihui] seems to have found some spare time and energy to crack out another sweet robot build, this time it’s a much smaller, and cuter emoji-bot (Original GitHub Link,) with the usual …

The four-legged robots, known as Spot, will be used to aid firefighters in search and rescue missions across New York, according to fire officials.

Folds down small for an enterprise drone, too

MercyOne North Iowa has reached a big milestone in its time with robotic surgeries.

Using some pieces of wood and electrical components, you too can build your own simple robotic grabber arm in no time at all.

‘The Husky Four’ of Herberg Middle School is this year’s winner of the 2022 Berkshire Robotics Challenge at the Berkshire Innovation Center in Pittsfield. The team on Saturday dis…

I got to play with Xiaomi's weird robot dog prototype

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjOpe_EKqc Robots are designed to do tasks that are difficult or dangerous for humans, so it seems only fitting that there should be one for cleaning the bowl, too. There almost comes a time when family members or housemates fight over the Porcelain Throne, but none ...

From restaurants to packaged food makers, software automation and robots are beginning to play a bigger role in small business economic decisions.

An autonomous vehicle called ECHO is monitoring Emperor penguin colonies to assess the impacts of climate change on Antarctic's ecosystems.