MIT researchers have invented a way to efficiently optimize the control and design of soft robots for target tasks, which has traditionally been a monumental undertaking in computation.

Purdue's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has several laboratories for robotics study including the Robot Vision Laboratory and the Articulated Motion Laboratory. A number of robotics ...

Robot builders make a convincing case that in 2001, robots are where personal computers were in 1980-poised to break into the marketplace as common corporate tools and ubiquitous consumer products ...

That's sad because the STEM field is known for its lack of diversity among income classes. It would have been nice to see Lego sell each of the robots separately as well as in a bundle.

2. Visual Waypoints Factory robots work so fast in part because their world is highly structured—conveyor belt here, truck over there. So for your robo-home, create landmarks that anchor the ...

Origami-inspired robot Date: August 24, 2017 Source: University of Illinois College of Engineering Summary: New research details how origami structures and bio-inspired design can be used to ...

And robots have yet to catch up.” More optimistically for the field of robotics, the researchers noted that, if you compare the relatively short time that robotics has had to develop its technology ...

Robots are already carrying out tasks in clinics, classrooms and warehouses. Designing robots that are more receptive to human needs could help make them more useful in many contexts.