Robot technology continuously integrates new technologies and concepts to improve the flexibility and adaptability of robots. Industrial robots are widely used in hazardous and repetitive production ...

A Harvard team has demonstrated that robots can be designed to react to their environment and perform tasks by programming intelligence into their structure. They created a robot capable of ...

The conventional use of industrial robots for precise, hazardous, or labor-intensive tasks is gradually being replaced by robotic processes designed for human collaboration. Collaborative robots ...

[Benjie Holson] is an experienced roboticist and wrote an interesting article published on IEEE Spectrum about how the idea most people have of non-roboticists is a myth, and efforts to target this ...

Barobo, Inc., developer of the Linkbot™ educational robot and RoboBlocky™ learning platform, continues to expand comprehensive TK-12 pathways in mathematics, math intervention, computer science, and ...

New research shows that programming robots to create their own teams and voluntarily wait for their teammates results in faster task completion, with the potential to improve manufacturing, ...

Before my daughter got to test out Dash and Dot, our dogs were already getting to know them. I’d gotten the two kid-friendly robots — Dash, who sits up high on three wheels, and Dot, his more static ...

RobotProg is a fun, free educational program that teaches the basic concepts of programming and robotics. You program a virtual robot using a flowchart: draw the flowchart, run it and watch the robot ...

After the state of New Jersey revised its computer science standards in 2020, I was part of a professional learning community tasked with helping educators in all subjects understand the computer ...

Sometimes the right tool for the right job appears almost out of nowhere. That was certainly the case for [Jonathan] who came across an unusual but well-designed robot at a secondhand shop. The robot ...

Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They're emotional, prone to panic or bossy, empathetic and able to communicate like ...