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Given the current importance of physical distancing, it's understandable that both customers and staff at auto dealerships may be leery of getting too close to one another. That's why Hyundai has developed a new artificially intelligent customer service robot.

According to Germany's University of Hohenheim, about 80 percent of the fruit trees in that country aren't regularly pruned – despite the fact that doing so makes them structurally stronger and more resistant to disease. That's why a team at the university is creating a robot to do the job.

CLEAN MACHINE: A robot disinfects floors, sings songs and tells jokes to staff and patients at a hospital in Munich, Germany.

Good portrait photography is as much art as it is science. Can you teach that to a robot? Yale’s Marynel Vazquez wants to find out.

After years of research, development, prototyping and pilot projects, HaptX can finally touch its first commercial product. The startup said Tuesday that its HaptX Gloves DK2 are now available for…

Automaker Hyundai has a new employee working in one of its showrooms in Seoul, Korea. The employee is an AI-powered automated robot called DAL-e that provides customer services at the showroom. The…

They look so friendly, as they roll along your shopping mall. Some, though, are concerned about what robot cops are really up to.

By attaching electrodes to the plant’s leaves, researchers found a way to snap its traps shut on command.

A robot created by a technology college in northeastern Japan wins the top prize in a robotics competition on the theme of the decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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The remotely operated craft could save oyster farmers from losing many days when their farms are shut down after heavy storms.

 

Robot dogs have come a long way since Sega Toys’ Poo-Chi hit the scene. I still remember the day I got my Poo-Chi, whose digital bark soon turned into what sounded like a chain-smoking robot’s panic signal. Since its debut in 2000, Poo-Chi, along with many other robotic dog products have seen some m...

The team's flexible, snail-like robot is 'untethered' from a power source and controlled remotely, opening new possibilities for the burgeoning technology

A virtual robot arm has learned to solve a wide range of different puzzles—stacking blocks, setting the table, arranging chess pieces—without having to be retrained for each task. It did this by playing against a second robot arm that was trained to give it harder and harder challenges. Self play: D...

Robomorphic computing could ‘unlock exciting behaviours’, says Boston Dynamics engineer

The studio’s Kinetic Touchless technology can mimic the movement of one’s fingers and recreate the tactile response of pushing a button.

MIT researchers have developed 'robomorphic computing, an automated way to design customized hardware that speeds up a robot’s operation.

Eelume is a six-meter-long, snake-like robot that will maintain oil and gas pipelines deep beneath the sea.

In recent years, vertical farming has emerged as a futurist’s solution to the world’s agricultural problems. The growing trend seeks to use controlled environments to boost food production, leveraging indoor labs where temperature, light, and nutrients can be mechanically controlled.

"I think when people see the new things that robots can do, it excites them,” Boston Dynamics founder and chairperson Marc Raibert told reporters.

Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico, a tiny little microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects with some code running on the microcontroller. Even more interesting, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is using its own RP2040 chip, which means that the foundation is now making its own silicon. If you’re not...

When it comes to developing robots that can move efficiently through water, scientists regularly turn to creature’s like squid and jellyfish for inspiration, and a UK research team has just produced one that can swim with the best of them. The soft and flexible robot uses a novel propulsion method t...

Back in 2015, robotic home cooks and kitchen equipment were the talk of the town, and no one was going bigger than Moley Robotics. The British startup stepped beyond robo-mixers and grocery-tracking refrigerators in developing a prototype robo-kitchen built to provide a full cooking takeover, leavin...