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 ...

Few images warm the hearts of companies as much as that of a robot at work. Tireless, accurate, and uncomplaining, robots have been a fixture in manufacturing for almost 30 years. A downside is high ...

To improve the safety and efficiency of Toyota’s manufacturing processes—starting with its hot forging production lines—the automotive manufacturer is working with Ready Robotics and its Ready ForgeOS ...

Industrial robotics is on track to be worth around $20 billion by 2020, but while it may have something in common with other categories of cutting-edge tech — innovative use of artificial intelligence ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

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, ...

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The IRB 120 is the smallest six-axis robot currently available commercially from ABB. Not long ago, Hemant Bheda received a request from a large oil and gas customer to develop a complex, composite ...

Sean Humbert is unlocking the biological secrets of the common housefly to make major advances in robotics and uncrewed aerial systems (UAS). A professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical ...