If you’re tired of mowing and trimming your lawn all the time, there’s a good chance you’ll be interested in the rise of robotic lawnmowers. These handy tools have gone from incredibly rare sights to ...

At its heart, robotics is about building machines that can do things for us. Think of it as giving a machine a set of ...

From such simple tasks as separating "lefts" from "rights" to inspecting and rejecting parts using complex vision systems, automation brings tremendous improvements to the plastics production process.

This article is part of a series of articles based on common questions in robotics. The previous article dealt with the question: What is a robot? Robots are machines designed to perform tasks – ...

Horror stories from robot vacuum owners mostly stem from two fixable mishaps: They accidentally bought a dinky robot vacuum or merely haven't set their very capable robot vacuum up for success in the ...

Cornell University researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intelligence—called RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution)—that allows robots to ...

Robots are machines that can automatically perform both simple and complex actions. They are often programmed by a computer, but there's no single definition of a robot. Robots include a wide variety ...

The introduction of robotic vacuum cleaners has made keeping the house clean considerably easier. In fact, automatically ...

Researchers are blurring the lines between robotics and materials, with a proof-of-concept material-like collective of robots with behaviors inspired by biology. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU ...

My mother’s cat is a recent enough transplant from Dublin. He’s taken to the countryside life quite well, exploring the fields and roasting himself alive in front of the stove. In his first weeks ...

IN the computer room at the top floor of Our Ladys College Greenhills the transition year class has been joined by five new additions Chico, Slimbot, Hoppy, Jim-bob and Dot all their own creations, ...