Imagine “hiring” a robot instead of buying one. That’s the core idea behind Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS), a business model that ...

Fluid robot motion is the result of design choices among five options including pneumatics and strain wave gears.

A scientist has explained why robots still struggle to pick tomatoes. Labor shortages in agriculture are driving growing ...

For a half-century, the image of the large, six-axis articulated robot welding car and truck bodies has become fixed in the popular imagination. Robots are used in sectors as diverse as healthcare, ...

A NEW TWIST ON AN OLD TEST. People are likely to perform better cognitively when under the supervision of a “mean” robot than a “nice” one, according to a study published in Science Robotics on ...

The simple cucumber may be delicious on a salad or in a sandwich, but getting it to the table is a labor-intensive and increasingly expensive job, to the point where countries like Germany are in ...

It's hard not to like BattleBots. It is essentially a modern technology-based sporting event in which teams build remote controlled robot-like things that fight in an arena. Two robots enter, one ...

Moscow -- Russian media say a contraption presented by Russian state television as a high-tech robot was in fact a man in a commercially available robot costume. The video was shot at a high-tech show ...

On Thursday, a large group of university and private industry researchers unveiled Genesis, a new open source computer simulation system that lets robots practice tasks in simulated reality 430,000 ...

Humanoid robots are currently dominating discussions in the robot market, with manufacturers from the US and China at the forefront of this competition. Surprisingly, traditional Japanese robotics ...