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 ...

We can build a very precise positioning robot, but if it can't grasp the object in some way, there's not much it can do. That paragraph is how Mechanical Engineering Chair and Professor Kevin Lynch ...

Robot programming is many students' first exposure to the world of computer programming. As with so much of the computing world, however, different robot platforms are generally incompatible ...

Part of the problem is an antiquated software-programming method. In typical manufacturing facilities, each robot runs proprietary software and production engineers must program them one at a time ...

This affects the choice of which robot programming languages are best to use: Usually, C++ is used for these kinds of scenarios, but in simpler robotics applications, Python is a very good ...

Robots are made for packaging tasks like picking, transferring, and loading. But one major impediment to widespread integration is the lack of in-house robotics experts at most ...

Lego is back with another generation of MindStorms, the company's consumer robotics line aimed at introducing application programming to a younger generation. Kids these days grow up with so much ...

Antbo is a robot insect companion anyone can build It teaches kids programming, while teaching itself how to love.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from some of our favorite YouTube shitty robots, it’s that human-robot interaction can be a tricky business. Developing methods to get rigid robotic arms ...