A special dock that sucks all the dirt out of a Roomba makes the robot even more useful
The human driver of the other car was to blame for a recent Apple AV accident, the first to involved one of the tech company's autonomous vehicles.
The U.S. Army is working on a system in which a ground-based laser shoots a military drone mid-flight in order to power it.
Jeff Flake's "beerbot" budget amendment cuts funding for robotics research
OnRobot has acquired Purple Robotics, a Denmark-based startup selling the PR10 electrical-based vacuum gripper. The deal comes two months after the OnRobot merger.
The Arduino team has been working hard to support the needs of our professional developer community. Many of you requested a way to use our tools in Makefiles, and wanted Arduino IDE features available via a fast, clean command line interface. How cool!
Epson Robots announced the Flexion N6 6-Axis robot. The compact 6-Axis robot offers a powerful solution for tight or confined spaces in factory automation.
We're not entirely sure what to call this one. It's got the usual trappings of a drone, but with only a single rotor it clearly can't be called by any of the standard multicopter names. Helicopter
There's an interesting side effect of creating a popular piece of science fiction: if you wait long enough, say 30 or 40 years, there's a good chance that somebody will manage to knock that pesk
Whether it’s carrying out search and rescue missions or performing life-saving surgery, there are some astonishing robots in existence which promise to change the world as we know it. But there are also a whole lot of weird robotics projects, too. Here are six of the strangest.
An autonomous underwater drone name RangerBot is ready to help conservationists protect the Great Barrier Reef from a number of threats.
Researchers have built a robot, named Minnie, to serve as a reading buddy to middle school kids, and Minnie's new friends grew more excited about books and more attached to the robot over two weeks of reading together.
CSAIL wireless system suggests future where doctors could implant sensors to track tumors or even dispense drugs.
The Chinese kindergarten children giggled as they worked to solve puzzles assigned by their new teaching assistant: a roundish, short educator with a screen for a face.
The rise in robots is creating so many new jobs that employers are facing an ever-widening skills gap. Take a look at how job seekers can develop the necessary skills to leverage better-paying and higher-quality jobs.
Herb2 the robot is not in its right mind, because clear across the country at Brown University, researchers have compromised it. Robotics, in other words, has itself a security issue.
Medical scientists and engineers have come together to develop artificial intelligence system designed to detect often-missed cancer tumors, thereby helping to boots patient survival rates.
RUSSIA has tested a battlefield exo-skeleton that will turn its soldiers into an army of Iron Men. The battery powered ‘Robocop’ suits allow squaddies to fire machine guns one-handed wi…
Five experts speaking at a conference on Human-Level Artificial Intelligence weigh in on whether scientists should create AI they know will be evil.
Researchers at the U have for the first time fully 3D printed an array of light receptors on a hemispherical surface.
A team of robot arms on mobile bases can 3D print large structures quickly
These eyes in the sky may become firefighters' best tools for combating one of the worst wildfire seasons in state history.
A team of researchers from Brown University took control of a University of Washington robot to prove that hacking robots is far too easy.
In what just might be the wildest thing anyone has ever built from LEGO, the company behind the bricks has built a full-size, driveable model of the Bugatti Chiron supercar.Seriously.
