The mechanical canine, named Spot by maker Boston Dynamics, got the attention of @bloodtear with his weird walk down a sidewalk in northern Ontario, Canada.
The Boston Red Sox professional baseball team has partnered with Nikon to have automatic robot cameras installed across its iconic Fenway Park. Nikon
New “tennibot” is like a Roomba for tennis balls
Robotazia has four robot servers who can bring out food and have a conversation.
A whole arm of robotics is focusing on insect-size robots -- and smaller. What might humans be capable of if we could command a tiny army of simple machines that could fly, skim the water and even swarm? Many things, as it turns out.
Research using microrobots and nerve cells from rats could point to new treatments for people with nerve injuries.
Amazon and Facebook are poised to gain newfound insights into our emotions. The privacy implications would be enormous.
Cheetah Mobile-backed OrionStar said its new humanoid Robotic Coffee Master is designed to serve coffee and tea in a contactless era.
If there's one thing that all types of first responders have in common, it's the fact that they put a premium on speed. The Recruit quadcopter was created specifically for such users, as it can reportedly fly at over 140 mph (225 km/h) and has a claimed 3-hour flight time.
The startup Cognoa has submitted its app-based tool for FDA clearance
The International Federation of Robotics, or IFR, found that industrial automation deployments slowed slightly before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Although we may think of 3D-printed items as being hard, they're actually often made from soft gels, as is the case with bioprinted body parts. A new system now allows such objects to be printed at a much smaller scale than ever before.
In a recent International Conference on Robotics and Automation paper, [Shenli Yaun] and some others from Stanford discuss the design of a roller-based robot hand that has many features that mimic …
Thanks to a new deep learning program, a curling robot, appropriately named Curly, was able to win three out of four matches against curlers from South Korea's national teams.
Ring announces the $250 Always Home Cam and plans for end-to-end encryption.
Boston Dynamics explains why robots with legs are worth it, even in triage tents
Blue Origin is set to launch its reusable New Shepard rocket on a suborbital mission today (September 24th) and test sensors for a vehicle that could one day land on the Moon.
If you've ever tried controlling a drone with a traditional joystick unit, you'll know that it's difficult to get the hang of. An experimental new system, however, lets people actually write letters in the air with a drone, using a special glove.
Rongzhong Li, who is responsible for the adorable robotic cat Nybble, has an updated and even more adorable quadruped that's more robust and agile but only costs around US $200 in kit form on Kickstarter.
When NASA officially announced the Artemis program last year, it revealed its plans to land the next man and the first woman on the Moon in 2024. Now, the agency has published the Artemis Plan, which details (PDF) how it would take humanity back to the Moon in four years’ time. NASA Administrator ...
At CIIF in Shanghai, Flexiv demonstrated how its adaptive robots can be applied to three different industrial applications.
This pair of Ekto One VR boots keep you in one spot while you walk forward. Could this solve VR locomotion in the future?
While many fighters train with a punching bag, it's not really a fair fight – after all, the bag can't punch back. Stryk's new RXT-1 training robot, however, does exactly that.
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has a challenging road ahead: After having to make it through the harrowing entry, descent, and landing phase of the mission on Feb. 18, 2021, it will begin searching ...
