Bipedal (two-legged) robots are sophisticated machines, but they are not the most graceful when things go wrong. A simple ...

Horror stories from robot vacuum owners mostly stem from two fixable mishaps: They accidentally bought a dinky robot vacuum or merely haven't set their very capable robot vacuum up for success in the ...

From such simple tasks as separating "lefts" from "rights" to inspecting and rejecting parts using complex vision systems, automation brings tremendous improvements to the plastics production process.

Tech firms are training humanoid robots to do household chores by feeding them footage of real people doing those tasks ...

Robot vacuums take care of every bit of pet dander and pile of crumbs without asking you to lift a finger. But while they are one of the most convenient ways to clean up your floors, the docking ...

Jonathan is an Android and smart home enthusiast with disciplines in software development and automated systems. He’s been bending technology to do his bidding for over three decades, and leads on ...

Robots are machines that can automatically perform both simple and complex actions. They are often programmed by a computer, but there's no single definition of a robot. Robots include a wide variety ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

Now that artificial intelligence has mastered almost everything we do online, it needs help learning how we physically move ...