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30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2019

the Curiosity Rover has discovered evidence that’s leading scientists to believe there was an oasis at the base of that 150-kilometer-wide crater.

Researchers in Brazil are developing a drone that scouts for evidence—and want to use its footage to reconstruct crime scenes

From Catlech’s Center for Autonomous Systems and Technology, LEONARDO (LEg ON Aerial Robotic DrOne) is a bipedal robot that’s uses dronelike propellers to balance and walk around. Event…

Japanese tech giant Toyota’s Research Institute (TRI) is training robots to fulfill random household tasks by letting humans look through the bots’ eyes via virtual reality.

It proved a less invasive approach to implanting brain sensors is possible.

The more we read about [Josh Pieper]'s quadruped, the mjbots quad A0, the more blown away we are by his year of progress on the design. Each part of the robot deserves its own article: from th

Whether it was the launch of Spot, the 6 River Systems acquisition or UR's strongest cobot ever, robotics stories in Sept. 2019 didn't disappoint.

Watch out pizza world: this pizza robot could shake things up. Seattle startup Picnic announced Tuesday that it has a developed a unit that can make 300 12-inch pizzas per hour and 180 18-inch pizzas per hour. We are excited to unveil our first-of-its-kind intelligent food assembly platform. See us

Logistics giant UPS has made a sizeable leap forward with its ambitions around drone delivery, today announcing that it has received some new permissions from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that grant it some serious leeway. It is the first company to be handed a certificate of this type…

Most industrial robots in the world have six or fewer axes. There have been attempts to popularize high-DOF robots, but they haven't been successful.

The Moxi service robot is designed to retrieve hospital supplies and be friendly to humans. Diligent Robotics announced that it is now available.

The trawl found 20,500 articles on the topic, but shockingly, less than 1 percent of them were scientifically robust enough to be confident in their claims.

Panasonic's powered exoskeleton is going to World Para Powerlifting (WPPO) events and the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. The wearable Atoun Model Y Power Assist Suit will be used not by the athletes, but by loaders and spotters who have to handle the weights for over 180 powerlifters.

Researchers at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) in Russia have recently introduced a new strategy to enhance interactions between humans and robotic swarms, called SwarmTouch. This strategy, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, allows a human operator to communicat...

Skydio has announced the Skydio 2, following up its Skydio R1 self-flying drone with a version that’s been improved in practically every way, from size and weight to battery life and AI autonomy, with new controllers to let you pilot it manually in addition to following you around through tricky ter...

Hyundai Motor Group has launched a new air mobility division aimed at developing technology for the commercialization of flying cars, the latest company to dive into the emerging industry. The division will be led by Dr. Jaiwon Shin, an aeronautics engineer who most recently led the Aeronautics Rese...

A gentle push on the knees, a subtle lift on the chest - that's the recipe to relieve low back pain applied by EU researchers developing a new exoskeleton. We put it to the test in a real-life factory.

We already know that robots will soon be taking over our lives. We have robots that can do almost anything -- from manufacturing cars to having sex, and now a batch of engineers have created a robot that some would find adorable while others would find a whole lot creepy.

Modular Robotics, makers of Cubelets robot blocks, acquired Dexter Industries, creators of GoPiGo and GiggleBot, to boost its STEM robotics offerings.

Job postings from a NASA contractor suggest that a new humanoid robot is under d

Despite what the inventors of the world want you to believe, not everything in your home needs to be intelligent, automated, and motorized—except your garbage cans. The inventor of the SmartCan wants to ensure you’ll never again forget it’s trash day, because these cans automatically drive themselve...

Engineers in the US have developed a robotic pill that could move between the stomach chambers of cows and report on the animals’ health.

From mobile manipulation to the need for multi-robot coordination, here are some of the autonomous mobile robot trends discussed at last week's event.