Robots promise to transform our lives in myriad ways. Having already revolutionized the production line, robots are getting smarter, smaller and more capable, and they're walking, rolling and flying out of labs and into homes and businesses at an astonishing rate. With the ability to perform tasks that are considered too menial or impossible for humans, robots are destined to make many aspects of our lives easier. Will they ultimately supplant us? We'll just have to wait and see.
When we think of the future of delivery our minds might wander toward airborne drones, but ground-based robots may play an important part in this, too. Among those is a new mail-toting machine already roaming the streets of Germany designed to do much of the heavy lifting.
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After what seems like an eternity of waiting, it’s finally happened. MegaBots’ Eagle Prime vs. Suidobashi’s Kuratas. It's USA vs. Japan in the world’s first international giant robot fight. Here's our blow-by-blow battle report.
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A colossal battle two years in the making is about to be joined, with a USA vs Japan duel pitting metal-shredding 15-foot robots against each other set to take place this Tuesday.
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When you reach into your pocket and grab your keys, you can tell how they're oriented, without actually seeing them. Well, an engineering team has created a soft robotic gripper that works in much the same way. It can build virtual 3D models of objects simply by touching them.
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It was just last year that we first heard about Emma, a robot designed to conduct massage therapy on human patients. At the time, it was undergoing clinical trials. Now, two generations later, Emma 3.0 has entered regular use at a Singapore clinic.
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Origami has plenty to offer the world of robotics, the latest example of which is a tower-shaped soft robot that can grasp objects and could safely interact with humans, possibly even as a tool for invasive surgeries.
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Robots are generally designed to perform a single, specific task. But now researchers at MIT have developed a system that allows a "Primer" robot to don various exoskeletons to give it different capabilities.
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Bell Robot's Mabot modular robot building kit is LEGO-compatible, simple enough for a first-grader to build with, and fun enough that even nerdy dads like me will obsess over it. There are points that could use improvement, but for the price, Mabot is good value and great fun.
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The emerging field of soft robotics is helping to make robots safer, but recreating muscle is no easy task. Now, mechanical engineers from Columbia University have developed a synthetic soft muscle that’s much more simple to make and run than others, and is stronger than the real thing.
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When Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli performs with the Lucca Philharmonic Orchestra this Tuesday, he won't necessarily be the center of attention. That's because his conductor will be YuMi, a two-armed robot made by Swedish/Swiss tech firm ABB.
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