Robots are increasingly becoming a part of our lives—from warehouse automation to robotic vacuum cleaners. And just like ...

These runtimes are a far cry from the eight- to 12-hour shifts expected of human workers – or the multiday endurance of sled dogs. The issue isn’t how robots move – it’s how they store energy. Most ...

Robot safety standards are guidelines and regulations developed to ensure robots operate safely around humans. Safety ...

This was demonstrated by the recent use of AI at a marine base that was designed to detect intruders. To test the capabilities of the system, the base ran a competition to see how many soldiers could ...

Enter biohybrid robots. These bots use biological actuators to easily convert different types of energy used by the body—like, for example, automatically translating electricity or light into chemical ...

AES Corporation’s Maximo robot. It can install hundreds of solar panels, often weighing 60 pounds or more, in a single day, even when temperatures rise into the 100s Fahrenheit.

Robots run out of energy long before they run out of work to do − feeding them could change that By James Pikul , University of Wisconsin-Madison June 2, 2025 ...