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EffiBOT is a robot tugger that can carry heavy loads and hook or unhook itself from a trailer during operation

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Tesla's 2024 Shareholder Meeting highlighted Optimus, the humanoid robot designed to replace humans in mundane or risky tasks. Features, Future Plans, and Price

Fernando Palma Rodríguez’s robotic artworks nurture forms of life that technology destroys.

Companies making humanoid robots like Unitree, Figure, and Agility are benefitting from hype around Tesla's Optimus and also the promise of AI like ChatGPT and systems made by Nvidia.

Have you ever tired of playing with your latest robot invention and wished you could just eat it? Well, that’s exactly what a team of researchers is investigating. There is a fully funded res…

A study of automation usage in warehouse and logistics companies around the world suggests that blending human labor with robotics leads to greater efficiency than full automation alone. While scalable robotic systems can handle up to 1,000 tasks per hour, they often face limitations where additiona...

To successfully complete missions in dynamic and unstructured real-world environments, mobile robots should be able to adapt their actions in real-time to avoid collisions with nearby objects, people ...

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Researchers are using a quadrupedal robot named "Spirit" to simulate the moon's surface at Mt. Hood

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Columnist Harry Saltzgaver writes about how artificial intelligence could impact the journalism industry.

The mower-robots are produced north of Bordeaux and are designed to maintain steep terrain or terrain with high obstacle density, such as solar power plants. The company is also launching a €2 million fund-raising campaign to accelerate commercial development.

Circus Group signed a memorandum of understanding with the Beijing University Food Raw Material Procurement Center.

Seatrec has invented a new type of underwater robot that can theoretically roam the seas indefinitely without needing to refuel or recharge its batteries. Instead, it harnesses...

Feature Endiatx's swallowable robotic pill hits clinical trials, company preps for FDA review and commercial launch

Menlo Ventures, an early Uber investor, just led a $21 million round of funding in Kinetic, a startup making EV repairs quicker and less expensive.

Pixel art uses small blocky details to make a larger image. Proving there’s nothing blockier than Lego, a YouTuber has created the Pixelbot 3000. Made entirely of Lego parts, the bot ‘prints’ pixel art using input from an AI image generator.

Commentary: It turns out that algorithmically designed scents can be hit and miss.

Shark Robotics’ Colossus is an uncrewed ground vehicle developed with the Paris Fire Brigade, capable of carrying heavy payloads, operating in extreme temperatures, and featuring remote and future AI-based autonomous control.

Motion Controls Robotics' Unitizing Palletizer, featuring FANUC robots on Güdel rails, has traveled an astounding 300,000 miles—farther than a trip to the moon!

Scientific Reports - Constant force grinding controller for robots based on SAC optimal parameter finding algorithm

A look at the 31 robots in Watson resident Kevin Hardy's antique Japanese tin toy robot collection. Staff video by Robin Miller

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