Changing robot standards provide an opportunity for designers of cobots to deliver improved safety and greater functionality, says IDEC.

San Francisco — A San Francisco-based company says it has developed a robotic machine operator available for rent that can be dropped easily into production lines without requiring additional ...

"We’ve long had automation in our company’s vision and road map for the future," Buikema said. "As we focus on the small and ...

OpenAI has rapidly scaled its robotics lab over the past year and plans to open up a second lab, insiders say.

Jacob Rosen is developing a wearable robotic “exoskeleton” that could enable a person to lift heavy objects with little effort. It’s a bit like the robotic armor that has long been a staple of ...

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Welding has always been a physical, hands-on job — but that may be about to change. That’s because researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new mind-control system ...

The Canadian company Haply Robotics develops haptic interfaces for device control that transfer position, movement, and forces in multiple degrees of freedom from the hand to electronics. In practice, ...

Jacob Rosen, associate professor of computer engineering, UC Santa Cruz, with his "exoskeleton" project Jacob Rosen, associate professor of computer engineering at the Jack Baskin School of ...