Robots
How we built a robot that can evolve – and why it won’t take over the world
The latest research on robots is often described as if it were a step on the inexorable march toward a robot apocalypse straight out...
The State Of Robotics For 2015
While faulty hoverboards are setting themselves ablaze to celebrate Christmas, robots are gradually moving from labs to news reports to entering our daily lives. First in line...
Japan to Create More User-Friendly Elderly Care Robots
Japan is well-known for its development of elderly care robots, but apparently its own government hasn’t been very impressed. The problem, according to the...
Japanese company creating a robot companion for your desk
MJI Robotics has almost completed its More Joyful Innovation Communication Robot, an egg-shaped cyber companion with a 5-inch screen, built-in cameras and telephone functionality. Earlier...
Hand in Hand
Robots in production – with these words, people imagine heavy machines, which eld parts together in a safety cage, for example. This safety enclosure...
Honda Uni-Cub promotes our fat, lazy future
Like the Segway before it, Honda's new Uni-Cub solves a problem that does not exist; it's a means for able-bodied people to rove around...
How a Mass. firm invented its own robot to finish what Amazon started
When Kiva Systems was acquired by Amazon in 2012, the robot maker was in a category of its own: making bots for e-commerce fulfillment in...
Toyota harbors big ambitions for “partner robot” business that draws on manufacturing knowhow
Toyota Motor Corp. is harboring big ambitions to become a significant player in the growing market for robots that help the elderly and other...
The State Of Hardware For 2015
2015 is soon coming to a close, and the world of hardware startups has been changing even faster. Over the past year several trends have...
This robot kills weeds, and could end the need for herbicides on farms
The robots have learned how to kill. Thankfully, for now, that killing is confined to weeds in fields. A new robot from Bosch, the...
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