robotics

UCLA engineers have developed minuscule warehouse logistics robots that could help expedite and automate medical diagnostic technologies and other applications that move and manipulate tiny drops of fluid. The robots are disc-shaped…

For self-driving vehicles to become an everyday reality, they need to safely and flawlessly navigate one another without crashing or causing unnecessary traffic jams. To help make this possible, Northwestern University researchers have…

A robot hand developed at the Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM) can handle objects the same way human hands do. The robot hand mimics the structure and motion of human fingers, and can handle a variety of objects,…

In 2019, a company called Miso Robotics made its debut and extended contracts for a commercial kitchen robot called Flippy at Dodger Stadium, Arizona Diamondbacks' Chase Field and multiple CaliBurger locations across the U.S., serving up…

With robots performing more and more tasks that require fine motor skills, researchers are seeking inspiration from the natural world to design robotic gripping mechanisms that combine the fine touch, flexibility and cost-effectiveness…

Robotics technology has become an integral part of human life. This technology can play a pivotal role in transforming the way many large-scale industries work. Moreover, it can make human life more comfortable by enhancing safety as…

While robots have the advantage of strength and durability, a lot of leading-edge research these days focuses on how to modify them so they can do more than navigate across open layouts and perform more delicate tasks within confined…

While remote interaction with robots is fairly straightforward, proximate interaction is far harder to get right as we incorporate robots as part of a mixed human:robotic teams. Recently an all-female interdisciplinary group of researchers…

Designed to be stronger and far less easily damaged than humans, increasingly robotic research focuses on developing robots with fine motor skills. After watching the 2011 Tohoku, Japan, earthquake, tsunami and subsequent Fukushima…

Researchers can extract a lot of valuable information from evolution. That's what happened when a Harvard engineering team looked at jumping spiders. These small arachnids have impressive depth perception despite their tiny brains, allowing…