Robots don’t disappoint. After a manufacturing company buys its first industrial robot installation, it goes back time and time again to buy more to further automation to their factories. Given that ...

The MLX100 robot gateway—announced at the 2010 Pack Expo show in Chicago and at the Rockwell Automation Fair event in Orlando—enables control and programming of the vendor’s robots from the ...

As workplace robots become more common in retail stores, hospitals, and warehouses, their human coworkers need to know how to use and reprogram them. Yet most people lack that kind of highly technical ...

Google LLC today debuted an internally developed software tool that can reduce the amount of effort involved in training a robot to perform new tasks. The tool is known as Code as Policies, or CaP. It ...

One of the most significant insights from the study is that roboticists must engage both technically and physically with ...

Massimiliano Moruzzi, CEO of Xaba, argues that industrial automation is highly inefficient because it relies on outdated controllers, rigid programming and exhaustive manual intervention. Programming ...

Researchers demonstrate that robots can be designed to react to their environment and perform tasks by programming intelligence into their structure, with minimal electronics. (Nanowerk News) From ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

There's no shortage of robot-based toys out there which are claimed to be both fun, and teach your budding young roboticist the basics of programming. Following in the digital footsteps of Play-i, ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world’s smallest fully programmable ...

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