Still afraid to take that computer science course? Two colleges in Pennsylvania and Georgia are hoping to make it a more attractive option by including personal robots with the textbooks. Looking to ...

It took nature millions of years to create intelligent, adaptive species. Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois ...

“Will robots need rights?” is like asking “Will robots be Jewish? Environmentalist? Libertarian?” At first such questions seem silly. Like all machines, robots will be whatever we make them. If robot ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A new academic group at Georgia Institute of Technology will design personal robots for use in education, claiming that robotics is about to enter the equivalent of the PC era in ...

A few years ago, speculation that we could be replaced by robots at work seemed rife. But it subsided among other pressing concerns and real-world events such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, however, ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to TrendForce research, the global smart manufacturing market will reach US$620 billion by 2026. Amongst the new technologies used in the burgeoning smart ...

Robots and computers both can process information. But Lisa Bouillon-Diaz, a University of Illinois Extension technology and youth development specialist, says there are key differences. "Robots can ...

Researchers at Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, alongside collaborators from the University of Michigan, have ...

For more than two decades, robotics market commentaries have predicted a shift, particularly in manufacturing, from traditional industrial manipulators to a new generation of mobile, sensing robots, ...

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 ...

RoboGrammar is a new system that automates and optimizes robot design. The system creates arthropod-inspired robots for traversing a variety of terrains. It could spawn more inventive robot forms with ...