"In their early days robots were more limited by their controller technology than by their physical capabilities," explains Roger Christian, vice president marketing and international groups with ...

Teaching a robot new skills used to require coding expertise. But a new generation of robots could potentially learn from just about anyone. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

Robots of the entertainment industry are given life by character animation, where the goal is to emotionally connect with the audience to tell a story. In comparison, real-world robot movement design ...

Universal Robots' latest cobot, the UR8 Long, has the reach of the UR20 but with less mass and advanced motion control.

Learning to use tools played a crucial role in the evolution of human intelligence. It may yet prove vital to the emergence of smarter, more capable robots, too. New research shows that robots can ...

The new system avoids this brute-force approach. Called the soft robotic intubation system (SRIS), it relies on a soft, inflatable tube that everts from its tip — essentially turning inside out as it ...

While quadruped robots may surpass their wheeled counterparts at traversing rough terrain, they still aren't able to maintain their balance when moving along narrow ridges. That could change, though, ...

A robot carrying an explosive device was used to kill one of the shooters in Thursday night’s horrific violence in Dallas, Texas, in what many law enforcement and other experts are calling the first ...

WYOMING, MI -- In April, Wyoming police used a RoboteX Avatar II to scoot inside of a house where a man had fired a gun and endangered others. They used the small robot's dual cameras to locate the ...