Walk into Tosec BV, based in the Netherlands, and you’ll see the hallmarks of many custom metal fabricators. You’ll hear the ...

There is a place on FIU's smoke-free campus where cigarette smoking is allowed. But not just any cigarette. And only if you’re a robot. Professor Hoshang Unwalla, a researcher at the FIU Herbert ...

Scientists at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), have investigated the impact of the shadow produced by moving cleaning robots on ...

MIT engineers have quietly solved one of the biggest bottlenecks in living-tissue robotics, creating synthetic tendons that ...

The device advances medicine toward a future that might see tiny robots sent into the body to rewire damaged nerves, deliver medicines and analyze a patient’s cells without surgery.

Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a washing machine. “I ...

In life science research involving cells, experiments are increasingly being conducted using robots. However, the impact of experimental parameters set for robots, such as the flow rate for aspirating ...

Though it’s the robot arms and architecture that get most of the attention, the end effectors (or end-of-arm tooling) is where the action happens…or doesn’t happen if the end effector can’t adapt to ...

POOLER, Ga. (WTOC) - You could soon see more robots on the streets and sidewalks here in Georgia. House Bill 1009, which deals with personal delivery devices, or robotic delivery devices, passed back ...

A small tax on robots, as well as on trade generally, will help reduce income inequality in the U.S., according to economists. What if the U.S. placed a tax on robots? The concept has been publicly ...