Robotics

Industrial robotics company Soft Robotics has raised $20 million in what it says was “an oversubscribed funding round”. The new investors include Scale Venture…

Researchers across disciplines use statistics to measure, to model, and to mine for insights. But the field of statistics has been changed by the advent of huge…

Roboticists at QUT have developed a faster and more accurate way for robots to grasp objects, including in cluttered and changing environments, which has the…

By Dennis Spaeth, CTEMag.com The history of robots combines the best of science fiction and real-life technology. From Isaac Asimov to modern industrial robots,…

Rethink Robotics presented its smart cobot Sawyer at this year’s Hannover Trade Fair last week, featuring new functionalities such as an Intera 5.2 software…

Speed limits apply not only to traffic. There are limitations on the control of light as well, in optical switches for internet traffic, for example. Physicists…

MIT engineers have designed a robotic glider that can skim along the water’s surface, riding the wind like an albatross while also surfing the waves like a…

Sony says it sold exactly 11,111 units of its robot dog, Aibo, in the three months since the mechatronic canine’s re-release in January this year.  This is…

A new technique developed by MIT physicists could someday provide a way to custom-design multilayered nanoparticles with desired properties, potentially for use…

Today's crop breeders are trying to boost yields while also preparing crops to withstand severe weather and changing climates. To succeed, they must locate…