The robots zipping around supermarkets this holiday season may stop for a quick selfie, but they’re hard-coded to ensure that last minute shoppers aren’t disappointed by empty shelves of their favorite treats.
Foosball tables are a common sight at hip, trendy tech startups, even though they're actually very low-tech devices. Perhaps RoboSoccer might be more appropriate, as it's an attempt to bridge the gap between physical and digital gaming.
Calling all evil geniuses: Misty II is taking a choose-your-own adventure approach to robotics.
A new two-way teleoperation system sends your motions to the robot and the robot's motions to you
The Mavic Pro was a revelation when DJI announced it a little over three years ago. The foldable drone was precisely the shot in the arm the industry needed to help make the technology more accessible for the masses. In July, I paid a visit to the markets of Shenzhen, and it’s clear that the [&hell…
Gideon Brothers, which has developed a vision-guided autonomous mobile robot, has raised funding and deployed robots to logistics leader DB Schenker.
There’s a lot we can learn from the way different animals see the world, whether it's a mantis shrimp inspiring a new cancer-detecting camera, electric fish that could help us see through murky waters, or bug eyes leading to new kinds of wide-angle cameras. The ability of jumping spiders to…
The latest industrial robots look like petting zoo versions of the big machines found in many modern factories—small, cute and you can play with them. But don't be deceived by their cuddly appearance. They have the potential to change the way humans work with machines and disrupt the existing market...
Hazardous places such as burning buildings can be dangerous to explore, which is why scientists are increasingly looking at using swarms of tiny drones to do the job. A new bioinspired navigation system could help make such life-saving swarms a reality.
This is how the robots will take over.
Dubai is now home to the world’s largest 3D-printed two-story building.
I’m not advising anyone to commandeer bedside hotel robots in order to spy on unwitting guests and curse the night with supernatural televisual activity. But if you wanted to, it would be really, disturbingly, easy. Fortunately for the guests of Japan’s storied robot hotels, an ethical hacker figure...
A team of surgeons from Charlotte, North Carolina have demonstrated new robotic surgeon technology by carving a jack-o’-lantern
If your roses are getting a bit untidy, fear not, because an international team of researchers led by the University of Edinburgh has developed a prototype robot gardener to do the job. Called Trimbot, it can not only do a spot of mowing but also prune roses and trim bushes.
The VIPER mission will provide surface-level detail of where the water is and how much is available for us to use.
NASA is working with Caterpillar on Moon mining rocks from the Moon's surface to be used as raw materials on the space agency's planned lunar base.
AI is already capable of discovering medical conditions with a high degree of accuracy. However, brain hemorrhages are particularly challenging -- fals
ROBOTT-NET pilot project: Urban pest control
From the company that brought BB-8 to life, a sensor-rich mobile robot you can program.
Geomiq, an additive manufacturing and machining startup based in London, is looking for a person to fork over their face for a new line of human-looking robots.
UPS isn't going to let Wing's team-ups with FedEx and Walgreens go unanswered. The company has reached an agreement with CVS Pharmacy to create a "variety
Paul Daughtery, chief technology an innovation officer at Accenture, thinks it’s neither inevitable nor likely that machines will ultimately replace humans in the workforce
the food 3D printing industry is expected to grow at an even higher rate, averaging 50 percent annual growth.
