We've explored more of outer space than our own ocean floor, and there are good reasons for that. Space is empty, so there's nothing to get in the way. In the ocean, water is everywhere, and explorers ...

How do you get a robot to inspect a tank with high vertical walls? If the walls are made of certain kinds of metal, you just stick a magnet on it. But many large tanks utilized in the food & beverage ...

Amazon's new robotic arm is capable of handling and sorting millions of unique items - a major milestone for the ecommerce giant - and a sign that it could one day replace a large number of its human ...

When you think of badass underwater robots, a new creation from researchers at China’s Beihang University and Harvard University has to rank pretty darn high. What they have developed is a ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed a robotic suction cup prototype that is much stronger than current industrial solutions. It can grab onto rough, curved, and heavy objects like ...

Researchers at the University of Washington have made an important breakthrough in robotic suction, a simple concept that's been difficult to master. The scientists took inspiration from the Northern ...

According to Pennsylvania State University's Asst. Prof. Long He, the mushroom-farming industry is currently experiencing a labor shortage. His team has thus set about addressing that problem, by ...

Amazon has crowned the winner of its second annual robot Picking Challenge. This year's $25,000 top prize went to a machine that uses a combination of deep learning AI, depth-sensing cameras, and a ...

While there already are powered suction-cup devices that allow people or robots to climb walls, they only work on smooth surfaces. Chinese scientists, however, have now developed a system that sticks ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Jan. 31, 2013) -- Natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis can unveil points of weakness in man-made infrastructure, and now robots are being called in ...