Associated Press PITTSBURGH – Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body, helping a surgeon identify diseases and perform operations. It’s not science fiction. Scientists and doctors are ...

Shops no longer "teach" robots to move from part to part. There is a classic failure to communicate in the machine shop. Robots run on brand-specific languages all their own, while conventional CNC ...

Onrobot’s Quick Changer allows an operator to change the end-of-arm tooling on collaborative robots in a few seconds. Weighing only 200 g (7 oz.), and fully compliant with the ISO 9409-1 flange ...

Robot arms are getting smarter and smarter all the time, and now a team from Georgia Tech has taught them how to make their own tools. These resourceful robots are first taught to match form and ...

Scientists have recently introduced a humanoid robot created for the noble purpose of emergency response. A team out of the Italian Institute of Technology and University of Pisa, developed an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robots are increasingly being used in place of humans to explore hazardous and difficult-to-access environments, but they aren't yet able to interact with their environments as well as humans. If ...

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, ...

(TNS) — They disinfect hospital corridors with ultraviolet light to eliminate traces of the novel coronavirus. They help nurses manage routine tasks so they can spend more time with sick patients.