[Photo: courtesy Futurice]BY KATHARINE SCHWAB5 MINUTE READThe robots are here. They’re scanning shelves at your local supermarket, delivering food, and even assisting nurses in the hospital. As the robots begin to infiltrate human spaces, questions remain for designers and engineers tasked with conv...
Here’s a range of robot companies that offer automated solutions in a wide range of industries that include manufacturing, warehousing, and even delicate surgery.
Seen in the wild, robots often appear cute and nonthreatening. This doesn't mean we shouldn't be hostile.
New capabilities allow “roboats” to change configurations to form pop-up bridges, stages, and other structures.
startup is looking to expand distribution of its RT-1000 multi-purpose robot that can mow large fields and plow snow.
MIT has developed robotic thread that could make even the least invasive current brain surgery techniques even less so, and potentially make it easier and more accessible to treat brain blood vessel issues like blockages and lesions that can cause aneurysms and strokes. The new development from MIT ...
The ‘fettuccini-like silicone fingers’ could help scientists study marine creatures.
Last year, Chinese startup Youcan Robot successfully crowdfunded its BW Space underwater drone. Now the company is back, with the upgraded BW Space Pro model. Among other things, it features a 6X optical zoom lens.
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, or KAIST, have developed an ultra-thin actuator for soft robotics.
Young kids growing up around robots may need reminders that their metallic pals aren't really alive, lest they form unhealthy emotional ties.
SF-based Elroy Air hopes to transform bulk air cargo shipping with its “Chaparral” vertical take-off and landing craft, the first version of which will be able to carry 250 pounds of cargo as far as 300 miles. The startup, which was founded in 2016 by experienced professionals with track records of ...
Sphero, a leading provider of educational robotics, and littleBits, which makes modular electronics and coding kits, are merging.
InnovationsMeet ‘Mindar,’ the robotic Buddhist priestThe $1 million robot preaches in a Japanese temple. Will it one day learn to think on its own?Buddhists unveil 'Mindar,' an android robotic priest at a 400-year-old temple in Kyoto, JapanAn android robotic priest was unveiled at Kodaiji temple
creepy robotic octopuses that can move around in water just like the real thing.
A pharmacy call center has deployed AI that coaches human employees how to have more empathy with frustrated customers on the phone.
Sex robots are here, and their AI-enabled pseudosexuality isn’t long behind.
This clay robot can squeeze and squish itself into different shapes
The majority of soft robots today rely on external power and control, keeping them tethered to off-board systems or rigged with hard components. Now, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Caltech have developed soft robotic systems, inspir...
Researchers in Germany have put together a very tasty cookie-decorating demo with their humanoid robot HoLLiE.
Volocopter claims the VoloCity can fly at a speed of 110 kilometers per hour (68 miles per hour), with a range of 35 kilometers (21.7 miles).
Supporting long-range communications inside of a mine is extremely difficult, so DARPA SubT teams are trying out some creative approaches
Skybot F-850 will spend a week on the ISS charming astronauts with its sense of humor
"Mark my words. A combination of airplane and motorcar is coming. You may smile. But it will come," Henry Ford quipped in 1940. Our dreams of cars capable o
