The battle is on for a bunch of sumo-wrestling Lego robots built and programmed by 100 elementary school girls from Surrey, B.C. The robots, equipped with ultrasonic sensors, are part of a spring ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

Heather Knight wants to make robots more charismatic. The Oregon State University computer science professor recently had her students program a robot to act out a scenario with a woman involving an ...

As physical distancing guidelines remain in effect because of the COVID-19 pandemic, people are increasingly enlisting robots to help close the gap. In central England, the town of Milton Keynes has a ...

Robotics are at the forefront of UHN’s vision for the future of surgery. Here’s how they’re helping to push the boundaries of ...

Low-code software serves as a robot's "synthetic brain," according to the company. Toronto-based Xaba has secured $6 million USD ($8 million CAD) to improve the capabilities of industrial ...

A transformative experience working with very sick children changed Paul Bucci’s mind about how robots used in human therapy should be designed. Bucci, a doctoral student in UBC’s department of ...

Google LLC’s DeepMind research unit today announced a major update to a couple of its artificial intelligence models, which are designed to make robots more intelligent. With the update, intelligent ...

Horror stories from robot vacuum owners mostly stem from two fixable mishaps: They accidentally bought a dinky robot vacuum or merely haven't set their very capable robot vacuum up for success in the ...

Imagine for a moment that you’re in an auto factory. A robot and a human are working next to each other on the production line. The robot is busy rapidly assembling car doors while the human runs ...