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Uber’s plans to start delivering fast food by drone in San Diego this summer are nearly coming to head, reports Bloomberg Businessweek. The deliveries will be three times faster than cars or bikes; cost roughly the same as regular UberEats deliveries; and will be sent to designated safe delivery zon...

Myomo is expanding production of its MyoPro wearable device, which adds motion for users with loss of function in one arm and hand. It is also working to add capabilities.

Automation is increasingly a reality in the workforce, and that means robots working alongside humans. But there's a problem: robots are often lousy a

a new companion robot called Irony Man was programmed to be ironic and sarcastic to better match how humans talk, but it doesn't know when to stop.

First-quarter orders for robots dipped in comparison with Q1 last year, according to the Robotic Industries Association. However, that may be due to automotive OEM cycles, said RIA officials.

Tiny, autonomous, insect-sized robots are being developed to aid in search and rescue operations to go beyond where human rescuers can safely go.

SILVER 2 can be all that too, but its main job will be to serve as a seabed-walking garbage man.

The Chinese dronemaker basically took one of the robots from its RoboMasters competition and shrunk it down to fit in your living room.

Using this technique, microrobots could deliver stem cells to hard-to-reach places

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The lightweight carbon fiber arm has three fingers and six degrees of freedom

As companies aim to increase production, the demand for large-scale industrial robots is accelerating around the world.

Financial troubles have forced Maker Media, the company behind crafting publication MAKE: magazine as well as the science and art festival Maker Faire, to lay off its entire staff of 22 and pause all operations. TechCrunch was tipped off to Maker Media’s unfortunate situation which was then confirme...

Faster isn't always better, as Georgia Tech researchers described their SlothBot for energy-efficient environmental monitoring at ICRA.

​If you were trying to remotely operate a robotic hand, it would certainly makes things easier if you could feel what it was touching. Such a system was demonstrated this week at the Amazon re:MARS Tech Showcase, utilizing technology from three separate companies.

Some workers at the retail titan's superstores said they had expected the robots would take their jobs one day. But they hadn't expected this strange middle period, during which they'd have to work alongside brittle, clumsy and easily confused machines.

It's got six electric motors—but they're not powered by a battery.

MIT researchers have developed a sensor-packed “scalable tactile glove” to compile a massive dataset that enables an artificial intelligence system to recognize and weigh objects through touch alone. The technology may help robots identify and manipulate objects and could aid in prosthetics design.

Boxbot plans to use small autonomous electric vehicles to make local deliveries as part of a logistics network that includes automated distribution hubs, as well as human-driven vehicles. Boxbot will test this concept with logistics firm OnTrac in California this summer.

Oddly human-looking robot artist Ai-Da is about to launch its first exhibition — and the bot's artworks have already sold for more than $1.2 million.

Cassie gets a speedy new pair of shoes.

Monday's episode of Chernobyl, 'The Happiness of All Mankind', was quite possibly the bleakest hour of the HBO miniseries yet. Deep into the horrifying Chernobyl nuclear disaster, attempts at cleanup finally begin and, ever briefly, it appeared that the attempt would be one that might be a bit [...]

In an Amazon sorting center, a swarm of robots works alongside humans. Here’s what that says about Amazon—and the future of work.

Astrobotic launches its lander to the Moon within the next couple of years, a four-wheeled robot no bigger than a toaster will be along for the ride.