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Boston Dynamics is well-known for its lifelike machines, but it’s yet to launch an actual commercial product. That will change later this year with the launch of the quadrupedal Spot robot. CEO Marc Raibert hopes the bot will find use in a number of environments, including package delivery, surveyin...

most experts agree that AI will not replace trained medical staff, just make them more efficient in several areas

The Swiss Post is expanding its drone delivery system, transporting laboratory samples between two hospitals in Zurich.

Fleet of “roboats” could collect garbage or self-assemble into floating structures in Amsterdam’s many canals.

Repeated headbutting helps little legged robots flip each other over

the flying machine pretty much sprayed a home into existence, and in doing so showcased its potential for disaster areas in need of emergency shelters.

May 2019 may have been a relatively slow month for investments, mergers, and acquisitions among robotics and AI companies, but a lot of money still moved toward self-driving cars, supply chain automation, and robotics components.

The large storage unit, controlled by a touchpad, can slide across a room to divide a small room into two living spaces, and contains a bed, desk, and a couch for people to pull out when needed.

the autonomous pre-marking machine can mark 5 times faster than a human worker, while improving safety and accuracy.

WPI’s Robotic Landmine Destroyer relies on a rover to detect mines and a drone to drop a payload to detonate each.

The AI in elder care market is expected to exceed US$5.5 billion by 2022, and will grow into one of AI’s most important support roles in societies of the future.

Aurora Innovation, which is building a full stack of self-driving car technologies, has acquired Blackmore Sensors and Analytics, which is the first company to commercialize Dopper lidar.

A tank-like killer robot can navigate and track targets without needing a human operator in the immediate area, but humans still need to pull the trigger.

MIT’s Hermes is a bipedal robot that uses full-body teleoperation to move with greater agility

IBM‘s Developer Drone Drop 2019 contest is officially underway. Now through June 16 the company will give away 1,500 drones to developers who enter. Why is IBM giving away free drones? It hopes you’ll use them to deliver AI-powered solutions to the problems caused by natural disasters. Hard Fork! Ha...

GPS is today’s go-to navigational system and it’s great until it doesn’t work. Researchers at universities and some of the world’s top tech companies are developing advanced navigational techniques designed to fill in the gaps when GPS fails.

It’s 5pm on a wet Wednesday afternoon in the Lincolnshire market town of Spalding and Simon Bradshaw and his partner, Sharna, are taking their daughter to see a new statue commemorating 19th-century hiring fairs for farmers and shepherds.

A soft robot developed by researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) could pave the way to fully untethered robots for space exploration, search and rescue systems, biomimetics, medical surgery, rehabilitation and more.

Laikago trots across the carpet

When a child first does something without being asked, their parents usually celebrate. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) are having that moment right now.

The tech should make it harder to get too close by accident. All DJI drones above 250 grams will be able to receive signals from planes and helicopters in order to alert the pilot.

Autonomous machine expected to pick more than 25,000 raspberries a day, outpacing human workers

The role, which can pay an upward of $27 an hour, often requires workers to hang hundreds of feet above the ground. The high wages and steep turnover rates have made the industry ripe for automation.Israeli startup Skyline Robotics wants to replace those roles with robots, while employing the same p...

Called the Aqua2, the new robot is soon to be commercially manufactured by McGill spinoff company Independent Robotics.