Modern warehouses are a hive of frenetic activity as robots and humans move boxes around as quickly as possible. To shave a few precious seconds off a delivery, researchers in Germany have developed a high-speed robotic drone that unloads packages by deliberately crashing into a platform and letting...
Before we get too far into this week’s roundup, I want to kick things off with an interview we haven’t published anywhere else. Earlier this week, we noted that Ford will be deploying some 100 researchers and engineers to the new $75 million facility at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The aut...
Inspired by the shell-swapping hermit crab, MIT’s HERMITS use interchangeable mechanical shells to do all sorts of creative things
Bjorstaddalen partnered with ZenRobotics on the facility.
Through donations, fundraisers and grants, the Turner family was able to get Deserae a robotic left arm prosthesis.
Agility Robotics, in Albany, has sold its first two bi-pedal robots to Ford, as it tests an autonomous vehicle fleet. Other robots will be used in warehouses.
System combines computer vision and deep learning to help an exoskeleton adapt its locomotion based on obstacles and surrounding terrain.
Robots these days are equipped with locomotion systems to overcome all types of terrain, but tend to favor one type of environment in particular. Scientists at Norway's University of Oslo have instead developed a four-legged robot that can adjust its leg length and walking gait on the fly as it enco...
Not bad, right? Its name is Max, it has a top speed of 25 kph thanks to its elbow wheels, and we know almost nothing else about it.
Drones get into the swing of things by taking the swing out of things
A student team's lunar landing pad could help NASA astronauts avoid Apollo's risky moon landings
It’s inevitable that one day all of us will see our jobs taken over by automatons—the real question is whether we’ll be replaced by robots, or some elaborate and surprisingly capable Lego creation like Arthur Sacek created to build perfectly stacked structures made of playing cards.
Nissan has developed a way to recycle and reuse its old Leaf batteries. It uses them in the robots that help make new leafs, making the process circular.
Meet DyRET, a doglike machine that can lengthen its four legs on the fly. That’s not to creep out humans, but to help ramblin’ robots of all stripes.
Never pick up 💩again.
A cool competition happening today at Verona High School's new aquatics center puts kids behind the wheel of an underwater robot.
This new brain-to-machine interface could revolutionize how people with disabilities interact with the world. Read it here.
A luxury wine wall that includes a high speed robotic arm capable of fetching bottles from your collection has been launched in the US...
Researchers used a robot to get some insight about how plant roots get around obstacles like rocks in soil with a kind of corkscrew trick.
New AI technique can rapidly generate holograms with less than 1 megabyte of memory
The new StrawBot from California-based Ag Pro Robotics promises 35% improvement in productivity for strawberry picking operations.
Early in March the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine drone deliveries began in the African nation of Ghana. The drone dropped 250 vaccine doses by parachute to a rural health center, one of 36 deliveries completed on the first day.
Hotel Sky in South Africa recently became the first property on the continent to introduce robot staff.
