Training systems that allow robots to negotiate the real world are getting more sophisticated.

Today, harvesting delicate crops like strawberries remains one of the trickiest tasks to automate. In the field, a robot must ...

The University of Washington is launching a Master of Science in Robotics and a professional certificate this fall. More than 30 people signed up for an information session before applications even ...

Autonomous robots could save human lives more easily if they could “see” and react better in adverse environmental conditions. By pursuing the possibilities of using millimeter wave radar for robotic ...

Diverse and inclusive teams are not merely a moral imperative but also a catalyst for scientific excellence in robotics, scientists point out in a study. The team has outlined how a scientific ...

Monroe, a high school junior, is part of a program that hopes to fix a lack of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at rural schools in Minnesota.

If you asked me to compile a list of the four most influential things to come out of MIT in the past 25 years — things that have truly changed the world — it wouldn’t include any drugs, software, ...

Inside the robotics laboratory of the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a group of robots are busy cooking. There is nothing special about that; robotic chefs have been ...

AMES, Iowa – You may not remember it, but odds are you took a few tumbles during your toddler era. You weren’t alone. Falling, after all, is a natural consequence of learning to crawl, walk, climb and ...

The bleeding edge: Nanomachines were once a distant fantasy of science fiction writers and video games like Deus Ex and Metal Gear Solid. However, recent advances in miniaturization have brought those ...

Purdue University Colleges of Science, Engineering, and Agriculture together with the Purdue Office of Industry Partnerships and Purdue Polytechnic Institute proudly present Robotics Day, a ...

An international team has explored how in future aerial robots could process construction materials precisely in the air -- an approach with great potential for difficult-to-access locations or work ...