"In their early days robots were more limited by their controller technology than by their physical capabilities," explains Roger Christian, vice president marketing and international groups with ...

Onrobot’s Quick Changer allows an operator to change the end-of-arm tooling on collaborative robots in a few seconds. Weighing only 200 g (7 oz.), and fully compliant with the ISO 9409-1 flange ...

Robot arms are getting smarter and smarter all the time, and now a team from Georgia Tech has taught them how to make their own tools. These resourceful robots are first taught to match form and ...

Learning to use tools played a crucial role in the evolution of human intelligence. It may yet prove vital to the emergence of smarter, more capable robots, too. New research shows that robots can ...

Robots of the entertainment industry are given life by character animation, where the goal is to emotionally connect with the audience to tell a story. In comparison, real-world robot movement design ...

Shops no longer "teach" robots to move from part to part. There is a classic failure to communicate in the machine shop. Robots run on brand-specific languages all their own, while conventional CNC ...

Robots are increasingly being used in place of humans to explore hazardous and difficult-to-access environments, but they aren't yet able to interact with their environments as well as humans. If ...

Xiaomi tested a humanoid robot on an electric vehicle assembly line, where it worked autonomously for three hours installing parts.

Scientists have recently introduced a humanoid robot created for the noble purpose of emergency response. A team out of the Italian Institute of Technology and University of Pisa, developed an ...

WYOMING, MI -- In April, Wyoming police used a RoboteX Avatar II to scoot inside of a house where a man had fired a gun and endangered others. They used the small robot's dual cameras to locate the ...