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A care home in Derby introduces responsive robot pets to provide comfort to its residents.

Robots serve up meals in autonomous, AI-powered restaurant

Long used mostly for the “dull, dirty and dangerous” tasks in manufacturing, robots are increasingly considered “desirable” amid rising labor costs and shortages, strike risks and the need for flexibility

A manned F-16 was put up against the X-62A VISTA (Variable In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft) above Edwards Air Force Base in California last September.

The 2023 film The Creator uses old footage of robots from the 1950s, and viewers probably don’t even notice.

A Slovenian startup plans to make robotic home security cameras that can yell preset threats at intruders and shoot them with teargas.

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — Starting this summer, undergraduate students will perform hands-on, cutting-edge robotics research that solves real-world problems in Appalachia while working in the five robotics labs at

Diligent Robotics' AI-powered Moxi robots assist nurses in 30+ hospitals, handling menial tasks like deliveries, saving time and reducing burnout.

The study's lead author, Yuhang Hu, a PhD student at Columbia Engineering in Hod Lipson’s lab. Credit: John Abbott/Columbia Engineering Imagine a resident

Uber Technologies Inc.- and Nvidia Corp.-backed sidewalk delivery robots company Serve Robotics Inc. made its debut on the Nasdaq today, and unfortunately for investors, it wasn't a great debut as sha

Penguins are fast, fantastic swimmers, so why not make an underwater robot inspired by them? That's just what German underwater tech company EvoLogics has done, with its new-and-improved Quadroin AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle).

Mentee Robotics hasn’t been in stealth, exactly. The Israeli firm caught a small wave of press at the tail end of 2022, following Tesla’s initial humanoid

A team of roboticists and mechanical and aeronautical engineers at Stanford University has developed a spider-like robot for possible use in exploring caves or lava tubes on Mars. In their paper published ...

A team of roboticists at the University of California, Berkeley, reports that it is possible to train robots to do relatively simple tasks by using sim-to-real reinforcement learning to train them. In ...

The FIRST Robotics World Championships are being held in Houston this week, with nine local teams traveling to Texas to compete.

Much has been (and will continue to be) written about automation’s impact on the jobs market. In the short-term, many employers have complained of an

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Researchers from the UK presented a robotic platform designed to automate the non-destructive disassembly of plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (EV) battery packs. By employing industrial robots equipped with various end-effectors and sensors, the platform efficiently extracts battery modules while pre...

Feedback pores over new research that suggests "robot-human boxing" would reduce brain injuries by reducing the number of live opponents involved

The Richtech Robotics, Zipphaus partnership proposes the launch of drink-making robot Adam across hospitals, airports and colleges

Soft skin coverings and touch sensors have emerged as a promising feature for robots that are both safer and more intuitive for human interaction, but they are expensive and difficult to make. A recent study demonstrates that soft skin pads doubling as sensors made from thermoplastic urethane can be...

This eight-legged probe would scour Mars’s underground lava tubes for places where explorers might camp—or for signs of past life

New platforms combine advanced hardware with US-developed software to meet diverse industrial needs. Anzu Robotics, LLC has announced its new Raptor and Raptor T drone platforms, marking the company