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The autonomous mobile robot can operate safely around people during regular store hours, enabling employees to focus on customer service and restocking items,

The U.S. Navy wants to find a way to create underwater robots that can stay submerged for longer. Their idea? Giving it special batteries that can be recharged by eating fish poop. Here's how it could work, and what a team of researchers have demonstrated so far with the project.

Super satisfying video from ROBOCON Official [robot contest]. These robots are made by Japanese technical college “KOSEN” (高専) students (15~20 years old) as the theme of the Robot Conte…

Slow week features transactions in robotics and military unmanned systems spending.

Terrestrial 5G networks will support high-altitude balloons and drones, and could someday merge with them

No one does brand synergy quite like Lego. The company’s been one of the biggest Star Wars licensers over the years, and for the first time, it’s applying one of the most valuable pieces of IP to its own line of STEM kits, Lego Boost. For this year’s Star Wars Day, the Danish company is […]

The robot is meant to prevent accidents that occur when the police pull over drivers.

In IHMC Robotics' new video, its humanoid robot Atlas autonomously traverses suspended wooden planks and wobbly cinder blocks.

The Robot Report rounds up relevant transactions from April 2019 in autonomous vehicles, industrial automation, healthcare, agriculture, and more.

Anyone who shops for robotics kits would have come across a few designed by Lynxmotion. They've been helping people build robots since 1995, from robot arm kits to hexapod chassis and everything i

The HEXA Plant is a six-legged machine designed to carry a potted plant on its back and move in and out of the sunshine to give your plant optimal light.

The new documentary 'I Am Human' chronicles how neurotechnology could restore sight, retrain the body, and treat diseases—then make us all more than human.

Using robotic and animal models, researchers have shown that some dinosaurs were already flapping their rudimentary wings as a side effect of running, prior to evolving the ability to fly. The finding offers a unique perspective on the origins of flight, but experts say more evidence is needed.

Down in Christchurch, New Zealand a team of roboticists at Invert Robotics has commercialized an inspection robot that uses tiny suction cups on a series of treads and a specialty chemical to create a technology that has robots literally climbing the walls. Meanwhile, a world away in Pittsburgh, Gec...

A new AI algorithm can create photorealistic images of people's bodies from scratch. It could automate models out of a job, but also be misused to mislead.

The company behind the Laundroid robot folds itself, but that's not the end for laundry folding robots (yet)

Usually when we think of robots in everyday life, it's something anthropomorphic, maybe a cross between C-3PO and Rosie the robot maid from The Jetsons. But robots don't always represent the human form, and some kinds are never depicted in pop culture.

MIRABEL, Quebec (PRWEB) April 30, 2019 -- RobotShop.com, the world leading source for all things robotic, continues its penetration of the robotics market by launching a new generation of Lynxmotion smart servo motors.

Anki, the San Francisco-based robotics company that specialized in making smartphone-controlled toys, is shutting down this week

Amazon's AI automatically tracked and fired hundreds of fulfillment center employees for failing to meet productivity quotas.

"The right way to think about this is through the analogy of a fighter pilot and a fighter plane. The fighter plane takes on the routine tasks like flying the plane, so the pilot can focus on the higher-level tasks of the mission."

See the picture at the top of this post? I don’t need to tell you that’s a DJI Phantom, because you already know. It’s an instantly recognizable, practically prototypical drone design that’s attracted imitators around the world — and now, rumor has it that owner DJI is killing it off for good. Drone...

At the ArticulATE conference this week, food robotics developers discussed the challenges of perception, manipulation, and growing the market.

China has announced what local media is calling the "world's first armed amphibious drone boat."