Aerial drones steal most of the limelight, but robots built to roam cities at ground level may also play a big role in automated delivery services of the future. An engineering team at MIT has been ...

Visual servoing for mobile robots encompasses the integration of real‐time visual feedback into the control loop for autonomous navigation and manipulation. This approach leverages data from onboard ...

Researchers from Meta Platforms Inc.’s artificial intelligence research unit today announced a couple of key developments around adaptive skill coordination and visual cortex replication that they say ...

Robots are part of an exciting new frontier in tech, but here’s the challenge: Robots rely on arrays of sensors, external signals like GPS and Wi-Fi, and customized software to navigate their ...

The new T702 from ABB is a tug-style autonomous mobile robot (AMR) that uses Visual SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) navigation to create a 360-degree point cloud of data to navigate in ...

"There’s something about robots that people connect to. I knew as soon as I left the theater after watching Star Wars that I would someday have my own R2-D2, (which I now do!) So I decided to ask the ...

Vorwerk Teppichwerke, a manufacturer of vacuum cleaners and carpets located in Hamlin, Germany, has launched the market debut of its “smart-floor” system, a flooring underlayment with embedded passive ...

Inspecting generators has always been a time-consuming and expensive job, yet one that needs to be done at regular intervals. An impressive new visual inspection robot can save owners many days of ...

Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics aim to transform Atlas humanoids from viral demos into practical, large-scale industrial ...

What features does a robotic guide dog need? Ask the blind, say researchers. A new study identifies how to develop robot guide dogs with insights from guide dog users and trainers. What features does ...