How we built a robot that can evolve – and why it won’t take over the world
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The latest research on robots is often described as if it were a step on the inexorable march toward a robot apocalypse straight out...
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The State Of Robotics For 2015
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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...
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Japan to Create More User-Friendly Elderly Care Robots
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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...
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Japanese company creating a robot companion for your desk
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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...
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Hand in Hand
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Robots in production – with these words, people imagine heavy machines, which eld parts together in a safety cage, for example. This safety enclosure...
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Honda Uni-Cub promotes our fat, lazy future
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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...
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How a Mass. firm invented its own robot to finish what Amazon started
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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...
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Toyota harbors big ambitions for “partner robot” business that draws on manufacturing knowhow
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Toyota Motor Corp. is harboring big ambitions to become a significant player in the growing market for robots that help the elderly and other...
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The State Of Hardware For 2015
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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...
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This robot kills weeds, and could end the need for herbicides on farms
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The robots have learned how to kill. Thankfully, for now, that killing is confined to weeds in fields. A new robot from Bosch, the...