Last week, we (and most of the rest of the internet) covered some research from MIT that uses a brain interface to help robots correct themselves when they’re about to…

News briefs for the week take a look at UPS’s new warehouse that greatly maximizes the headcount of robots over workers, decades-old farm tractors modernized for autonomy via a retrofit,…

So, this looks funny but it seems legitimate: https://www.iit.it/en/research/departments/advanced-robotics.html The Advanced Robotics Department at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia(IIT), an English-language research Institute located in Genoa (Italy),is seeking a motivated candidate…

“Confused” industrial robot crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packing plant in South Korea A 40-year-old man working at a produce-sorting facility in South Korea was accidentally…

News briefs for the week take a look at robotics from Time Magazine’s annual Best Inventions of the Year 2023 to see how robotics has pervaded many other categories of…

Some of the world’s leading robotics and artificial intelligence pioneers are calling on the United Nations to ban the development and use of killer robots. Tesla’s Elon Musk and Google’s…

Melonee Wise is the CEO of a very new startup, Fetch Robotics, that is building autonomous mobile manipulators for things like warehouse and ecommerce operations. Fetch is not her first…

Amazon recently announced that it has “750,000 robots working collaboratively” with human employees. The company introduced two new robotic systems to speed up its deliveries, raising concerns among fulfillment center…

Cybernetics usually refers to humans enhancing themselves with robotic parts. Sometimes, we heard about animal-robot cyborgs, or insect-robotcyborgs. It’s not all that often that we hear about plant-robot cyborgs, because…

If your friend says she feels relaxed, but you see that her fists are clenched, you may doubt her sincerity. Robots, on the other hand, might take her word for…

To paraphrase the article, MIT researchers working on “Multi-robot coordination under uncertainty” did a demonstration of multiple robots working together with little information by having them serve beer.  MIT gets funding…

Cybernetics usually refers to humans enhancing themselves with robotic parts. Sometimes, we heard about animal-robot cyborgs, or insect-robotcyborgs. It’s not all that often that we hear about plant-robot cyborgs, because…

To paraphrase the article, MIT researchers working on “Multi-robot coordination under uncertainty” did a demonstration of multiple robots working together with little information by having them serve beer.  MIT gets funding…

Amazon to begin testing Digit – a six-foot-tall humanoid robot that might end up REPLACING human warehouse workers Amazon is testing the use of humanoid, six-foot-tall robots at their…

Cybernetics usually refers to humans enhancing themselves with robotic parts. Sometimes, we heard about animal-robot cyborgs, or insect-robotcyborgs. It’s not all that often that we hear about plant-robot cyborgs, because…

BY GISELE-GALOUSTIAN | 11/14/2017 That is exactly what an interdisciplinary team of scientists from Florida Atlantic University and the University of Utah School of Medicine aims to do. They are…

News briefs for the week take a look at breaking news from logistics leaders in U.S., with Symbotic and SoftBank partnering to create a WaaS called GreenBox, with SoftBank additionally…

Finger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots Imagine grasping a heavy object, like a pipe wrench, with one hand. You would likely grab the wrench using your entire fingers, not just…

Finger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots Imagine grasping a heavy object, like a pipe wrench, with one hand. You would likely grab the wrench using your entire fingers, not just…

Humanoids Tell the U.N. They’d Run Earth Better Than Actual Humans In a United Nations press conference, Sophia, the Hanson Robotics humanoid robot powered by AI claimed that “Humanoid robots…