Despite the longevity of the robot concept, robotic butlers that roam our homes and relieve us from housework still seemed far from reality until very recently. Instead, the vast majority of robots ...

Bryn Mawr College and the Georgia Institute of Technology are the lucky recipients of a Microsoft grant to develop "personal robots" to use in introductory computer science classes, reports Inside ...

As collaborative robots continue to be introduced in manufacturing, some key safety hazards need to be addressed before collaborative robots can be safely implemented on the line. The introduction of ...

Locomotion, end-effectors, appearance - and how they relate to a robot’s purpose. We focus on design elements: locomotion, end-effectors, appearance - and how they relate to a robot’s purpose.

Truly fantastic article, thanks for modernising my robot coding theory (robocoding?). Interesting to see Sebastian Thrun is also an author of the CARMEN framework Game_Ender mentioned*. * Although the ...

Japan is a leading country in the field of industrial robots, with robots having been introduced in plants in the country early on and contributing to productivity improvements in the manufacturing ...

Robot technology is evolving at breakneck speed. SoftBank’s Pepper is found in companies across the globe and is rapidly improving its conversation skills. Telepresence robots open up new ...

Perhaps as many as 670,000 American jobs have been lost since 1993 thanks to the introduction of automation in manufacturing, according to new analysis from the National Bureau of Economic Research.