Robotics manufacturing and automation technology transform factories with cobots, AI vision, and smart systems for precise, ...

Robots don’t need humans watching their every move. But the employees responsible for ensuring the robots perform properly must be technologically adept, another sign of the changing requirements of ...

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, ...

Miami-based company, Modern Robotics, recently provided an exciting glimpse into the future of collaborative robotics with the introduction of Spartan, a robotics base kit that allows users to build ...

A robot visited a Cincinnati department store in 1977, attempting to sell coats and make friends. He wasn’t always a success. The robot was named Sam Struggle Gear. He told the reporter there were 25 ...

The word “robot” was not used in literature until 1920, when Czech playwright Karel Capek wrote the play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) that debuted a year later and made it to New York City in ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) James Pikul, University of Wisconsin-Madison (THE CONVERSATION) Earlier this year, a ...

Earlier this year, a robot completed a half-marathon in Beijing in just under 2 hours and 40 minutes. That’s slower than the human winner, who clocked in at just over an hour—but it’s still a ...

Previous generations thought of robots as pure science fiction. Today, robots are a ubiquitous reality, and robotics is a thriving and fast-growing industry. Modern robots are not necessarily the ...

When Staub Inc.’s employees leave for the day, the robots don’t stop. They work through the night, in the darkness. The robots pick up newly produced machined parts, to wash and then dry them, before ...