MIT Media Lab researchers are using RFID tags to make it easier to locate objects.
A robot just physically examined the radioactive fuel at the damaged Fukushima Nuclear Reactor. It's the first step toward an ongoing cleanup mission.
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A team of Danish and Japanese scientists report a breakthrough in graphene-based nanoelectronics. They can pattern the graphene without destroying it.
Sphero's been amusing us with its collection of robotic balls, like its adorable BB-8, for eight years. But lately the company has been getting awa
Vincross, the company behind the six-legged robot Hexa, said on Tuesday that it has picked up $10 million in a Series A+ funding round led by Lenovo Capital, the startup fund managed by Lenovo Group. Returning investor GGV Capital and newcomer Seekdource Capital also participated. The company decli…
Report about teen caught by her mother after using a device for Lunar New Year assignments alerts a wider audience to the robots, which can copy text and mimic your handwriting.
Artificial intelligence has the ability to generate and manipulate imagery quickly and at scale. The latest examples is ThisPersonDoestNotExist.com, which uses technology open-sourced by Nvidia to generate new portraits on demand.
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) program that can automatically provide species-level identification of microscopic marine organisms. The next step is to incorporate the AI into a robotic system that will help advance our understanding of the world's oceans, both now and in...
Intuitive Surgical was a pioneer in operating room robots, dominating the market with its da Vinci surgical helpers. Rivals are now coming for the spoils, and CEO Gary Guthart has a plan to head them off.
In this virtual roundtable, A3 speaks with executives at four market leaders about the evolving capabilities and use cases for autonomous mobile robots.
The U.S. Naval Institute says the sub will be used for "mine countermeasures, anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, electronic warfare and strike missions."
Mountain View, California-based autonomous delivery startup Nuro has raised nearly $1 billion from Softbank's Vision Fund.
Move over, Amazon Echo and Google Home! Peeqo is a cute robot that will answer your spoken word questions by displaying a specially selected short video or GIF. Because, you know, it’s 2019 and nobody feels comfortable talking to one another the old-fashioned way anymore.
An extra pair of wings makes robot insects much easier to control
It can produce different walking styles by melting and then re-solidifying its structure, helping it get around obstacles.
Local firm, once part of iRobot Corp., sells equipment to the military.
NASA announced that, after 15 years and 5,000 charge cycles, the Mars rover Opportunity is officially dead. Here’s what killed the tenacious little robot.
Desert ants are extraordinary solitary navigators. Researchers were inspired by these ants as they designed AntBot, the first walking robot that can explore its environment randomly and go home automatically, without GPS or mapping. This work opens up new strategies for navigation in autonomous vehi...
Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a brain-computer interface system that makes it possible for a person to control a welding robot using only their thoughts. Here's how it works, and why it could turn out to be useful in the workplace.
Using only their thoughts, humans were able to control the movements of rat cyborgs created by a team of Chinese researchers.
So get ready to see a lot more of the company's toaster-inspired, human-free robots roaming the street, delivering groceries.
The KR QUANTEC, already a bestseller, gets an upgrade to boost its versatility.
A robot hand developed by Korean researchers can detect user's intention by using machine learning. It could help the disabled who lost hand mobility.
