This week's report shows how robotics is evolving beyond isolated cells into integrated, intelligent manufacturing systems.

A software engineer’s earnest effort to steer his new DJI robot vacuum with a video game controller inadvertently granted him ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

EPFL roboticists have shown that when a modular robot shares power, sensing, and communication resources among its individual units, it is significantly more resistant to failure than traditional ...

Purdue University’s Colleges of Science, Engineering, and Agriculture—together with the Purdue Office of Industry Partnerships and Purdue Polytechnic Institute—proudly present Robotics Day, a ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

We’re far from realizing the kind of nanomachines envisioned in media like “The Diamond Age” and Metal Gear Solid, but scientists have just taken a meaningful step towards the next best thing. A team ...

On February 27, high school engineers will take over the Brain Gym with a public demo—inviting kids to drive their 18-by-18 robot.

As waiting rooms fill up, doctors get increasingly burnt out, and surgeries take longer to schedule and more get cancelled, humanoid surgical robots offer a solution. That’s the argument that UC San ...

A robot has performed realistic surgery on its own with 100% accuracy, researchers have said. In a “major leap” towards using more robots in operating theatres, a machine trained on the videos of ...

Research from the University of Victoria reviews the current use and future potential of social, empathic humanoid robots--asking the question: Could an empathic robot be a part of your future ...

Through demonstrations, presentations, and networking opportunities, Robotics Day showcases Purdue’s cutting-edge research and industry partnerships driving advancements in automation, artificial ...