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Estonian startup company Cleveron has launched a mobile delivery robot prototype which the company isa already piloting in some markets. The self-driving robot courier will automate the last mile d…

Uber is only gradually resuming its self-driving car program, but it's already thinking about expanding that technology to its two-wheeled services. Th

Researchers believe the robot, nicknamed RAS, could eventually help those with dementia and other limitations continue to live independently in their own homes.

Whether you’re hacking a Roomba into a home-­security droid or assembling your own robocreation, outfit your workbench with these essentials.

Passerine's drone uses its bird-like legs to jump into the air, overcoming a design flaw that plagues many other fixed-winged aircraft.

Amazon workers at the online shopping company's fulfillment centers are using "tech vests" to help protect them from accidental collisions with their robot co-workers. The robots already have obstacle avoidance sensors, but the tech belt offers another layer of safety.

OMRON is best known for its healthcare products like thermometers and blood pressure monitors -- now in the form of a smartwatch, even. But those wh

The Scoliobot at Nottingham Trent University uses two Universal Robots UR5 cobot arms to drill holes in vertebrae to help correct spinal deformities.

Roboticists at ETH Zurich have demonstrated how their ANYmal four-legged robot is capable of taking a kicking and keeping on ticking -- or keeping on walking at least. If it does get pushed over, it's also capable of figuring out how to climb back to its feet. Check it out.

Brick-and-mortar retailers are using autonomous mobile robots to keep track of inventory and fight back against ecommerce.

Here are 10 robotics startups The Robot Report will be watching in 2019. What robotics startups are you excited about for 2019?

Japan’s oddball Henn na Hotel has fired half of its 243 robot staff. The reason? Because these labor-saving machines were causing more problems than they were solving -- and requiring humans to come in and fix things as a result. These are some of the robots that got the chop.

Collaborative robots, or cobots, are the future, according to NVIDIA. And an Ikea kitchen could speed up their development,

New seafaring robots—leveraging artificial intelligence, machine vision, and advanced sensors—are beginning to plunge into the ocean depths.

Ford has a robot butt called the Robutt that it uses to test car seats. That much is straightforward and obvious. Now, though, in a fit of mad ingenuity or deranged perversion, the carmaker has added sweat glands to the Robutt. It’s a sweaty robot butt, and it’s coming for your car seats.

Walking robots will always turn into falling robots, and wearable airbags could help keep them safe

Single lens eyes, like those in humans and many other animals, can create sharp images, but the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans have an edge when it comes to peripheral vision, light sensitivity and motion detection. That's why scientists are developing artificial compound eyes to give sigh...

We need to improve robot surgeons' sense of touch before the machines can truly reach their potential, according to one surgeon.

Normally, boiling an egg involves heating water in a saucepan, then dropping an egg inside to be properly heated. James Bruton, however, now has a bit of help in the form of his breakfast-making robot. The device uses two servos, along with a motor/encoder/screw assembly to rotate and lower the

Reinforcement learning has helped a four-legged bot move a bit like a real animal, without having to be taught how to make each step.

"Cleanup on aisle 5."

Henn-na Hotel in Japan is reportedly decommissioning half of the robots it used to have running the show. Too many were buggy or just plain annoying.

A new drone from the NIMBUS group at the University of Nebraska can fall out of a plane, parachute down, fly to a certain place, dig a hole, hide sensors inside it and then fly away like some crazy wasp. Robots are weird. The goal of the project is to allow drones to place sensors […]

Humatics' Spatial Intelligence Platform combines RF beacons and software to locate robots and humans in complex environments down to two centimeters.