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Different ways that robots are helping automotive manufacturers improve their automation processes.

Bohemian Rhapsody is one of the most well-known rock songs in the western world, and has been watched more than a billion times on YouTube alone. It's likel

DJI plans to release an app that lets anyone track and identify quadcopters and similar machines that are flying nearby. It would also show the drone’s altitude, speed, travel direction, and pilot location. DJI said the aim is to offer an easy way to monitor drones “for enhanced safety, security, an...

Security robot guards are slowly becoming more common in parks, hospitals, casinos, malls, and other semi-public places. But they’re less of a replacement for human guards and more like mobile surveillance devices. A report from OneZero on security bot maker Knightscope shows this using the company’...

An MIT-designed robot “grows” like a plant. The design could enable robots flexible enough to meander through tight spaces, and strong enough to lift heavy objects.

Could robots with feelings be the next step in AI? A research paper discusses an interesting approach to robot design. It is titled "Homeostasis and soft robotics in the design of feeling machines" in Nature Machine Intelligence.

This robot dog can scale ladders that a real dog would struggle with

Despite job fears, the talent gap in manufacturing is real, and robots can help close it and provide opportunities for human workers.

A neuroradiologist in Toronto has carried out the world’s first robotic brain surgery. The robot-assisted aneurysm coiling was conducted on a 64-year-old female patient at Canada’s Toronto Western Hospital and Krembil Brain Institute on November 1. Here's why it matters.

In order for delivery robots to drop your takeout, package or meal-kit at the door, they'll need to be able to find the door. In most cases, that require

The Biomimetics Robotics team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently took a number of its talented Mini Cheetah robots for some fun in the park.

Amazon announced a plan today to build a $40 million, 350,000-square-foot robotics innovation hub in Westborough, Mass. The new facility will bring 200 technology and advanced manufacturing jobs when it opens in 2021. The new facility will include corporate offices, research and development labs and...

RoboMantis, which is built on JPL technology developed for the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge, is now available with the Actin SDK.

When humans give robots “tough love” by trying to knock objects out of their hands, it actually helps them find the best ways to hold things.

coDrive, a new system compatible with Soft Robotics' modular mGrip grippers and UR cobot arms, cuts the pneumatic tether for portable applications.

This startup's plan is to send swarms of smart robots to the surface of a distant moon and planets to extract resources including water ice and minerals.

Soft muscles prevent the bots from taking a bruising.

Whether it was Anki's patent portfolio going on sale or Teradyne buying another robotics company, robotics stories didn't dissapoint in September 2019.

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Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have created autonomous robot cubes that can jump, spin, and assemble Minecraft-like structures on their own.

The robots zipping around supermarkets this holiday season may stop for a quick selfie, but they’re hard-coded to ensure that last minute shoppers aren’t disappointed by empty shelves of their favorite treats.

Foosball tables are a common sight at hip, trendy tech startups, even though they're actually very low-tech devices. Perhaps RoboSoccer might be more appropriate, as it's an attempt to bridge the gap between physical and digital gaming.

Calling all evil geniuses: Misty II is taking a choose-your-own adventure approach to robotics.