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Pediatric HAL is a medical robot made by Gaumard, a company that makes medical training simulators. HAL actually bleeds, cries, and urinates.

Hardware-based motion planning that operates in under a millisecond makes robots both safer and more versatile

Well-designed smart technology tools can help government agencies, the environment and residents. Smart cities can upgrade the efficiency of city services by eliminating redundancies and finding ways to save money, as well as provide higher-quality services at a lower cost.

Elementary Robotics, a Los Angeles firm pioneering innovative automation technologies, has raised $3.6 million in a seed funding round.

There's a lot of talk about the many potential uses of multi-legged robots like Cheetahbot and Spot — but in order for those to come to fruition, the robots actually have to go out and do stuff. And to train for a glorious future of sewer inspection (and helping rescue people, probably), this Swiss…

For a CEO who insists his electric vehicle startup doesn’t want to be Tesla, Rivian founder RJ Scaringe can sound a lot like Elon Musk. Just weeks before unveiling Rivian’s first vehicles — an all-electric pickup and a seven-seater SUV — at the LA Auto Show last month, Scaringe promised an impressi…

Bees. The punchline to the title is bees carrying sensors like little baby bee backpacks. We would run out of fingers counting the robots which emulate naturally evolved creatures, but we believ

A preliminary study by Starship Technologies tested the impact of guide dogs and robots on public sidewalks to measure their interaction.

A look at the 10 robotics companies that raised the most funding in 2019, including Cruise Automation, Uber, UBTech and more.

As employees and researchers push back, companies including Google and Microsoft are pledging not to use powerful AI technology in certain ways.

If you’d like an easy way to accomplish repetitive biological experiments, the OpenLH presents a great option for automating these tasks. The heart of the system is the Arduino Mega-controlled uArm Swift Pro robot, which is equipped with a custom end effector and syringe pump. This enables it to

InSight placed the instrument about 5.3 feet (1.6 meters) away -- about as far as the arm can reach

A new generation of robot toys with personalities powered by artificial intelligence could give kids more than just a holiday plaything, according to a University of Alberta researcher.Unlike previous electronic pets like the Furby and Tamagotchi that sparked holiday crazes in the late ‘90s, some of...

Japanese company Groove X has just unveiled its Lovot robot, but while many robots you hear about are developed to perform some sort of task, Lovot is onl

Is this one of the year's weirdest gadgets? This electrical engineer recently built a robot that will help you learn to play the guitar better. Unfortunately, it does this by zapping you with a taser whenever you play the wrong note. Check out a video demo of it in action.

  By Daniel Theobald, CIO and co-founder of Vecna Robotics This paper discusses the opportunities discovered through technological innovation, and how robots and humans working together create…

Sweeper the robot takes 24 seconds to pick a single pepper. However, researchers point out that they have slowed the robot's movements on purpose for safety reasons.

Medtronic closed the $1.7 billion acquisition of Mazor Robotics, maker of the Mazor X guidance system and Renaissance robot-assisted spine surgery device.

The magic ingredient isn’t glue, or a material that mimics the pad of a gecko’s foot, but voltage. Specifically, electroadhesion.

A new swarm of robots inspired by biological cells can communicate with each other to autonomously create new structures and shapes.

The drone, called the Naviator, is part submarine and part aircraft. It can seamlessly dip into the water and explore, then ascend and navigate the air.

We are announcing the release of our state-of-the-art off-policy model-free reinforcement learning algorithm, soft actor-critic (SAC). This algorithm has been developed jointly at UC Berkeley and Google Brain, and we have been using it internally for our robotics experiment. 

Robotics investments in November 2018 totaled at least $639.3 million with a total of 20 verified investments, including $220 million from Auris Health.