Abstract: Here's a scene from the not-too-distant future. In a bright, high-tech operating room, a sleek robotic arm stands poised next to the operating table. The autonomous robot won't operate ...

Two machines resembling robotic vacuum cleaners sped around a ring colliding, shooting sparks and catching fire, as Iranian engineering students watched from behind plexiglass. The dramatic clash was ...

In a test of 60 jumps, the robot made a perfectly controlled landing 52 times, sat back on its "heel" five times, and fell over just three. Controlling the landing has hugely boosted Salto's jumping ...

We've seen some impressive nature-inspired flying bots from the creative minds at Festo's Bionic Learning Network over the years, but the autonomous BionicBee is not only the smallest so far but also ...

Fast-growing food hall chain Wonder is the latest restaurant in Jersey City to give customers the option of having their food delivered by self-driving robots. As part a newly announced pilot between ...

Amazon has spent years automating its warehouses with robots. Its mechanical workforce is more than one million strong, rivaling the size of its human workforce of some 1.56 million people. Robots, in ...

Robot delivery is coming to Wonder, thanks to a joint effort between its delivery arm, Grubhub, and the autonomous vehicle company Avride. During the pilot, when customers use the Grubhub app to order ...

Consumers within a set distance of the Wonder location can opt to have their Grubhub orders delivered by robot. Grubhub will draw lessons from the test to inform its planned expansion of autonomous ...

Abstract: In this work, we address the problem of precise motion planning and control of flexible-link robots for throwing small objects. Thanks to lightweight materials and elastic bodies, flexible ...

A Hagerstown man has been charged after authorities determined he intentionally set two fires outside Wonder Book and Video on Dual Highway Monday night. At approximately 10:40 p.m. on October 20, ...

Conor has been staunchly in favor of Android since graduating to a smartphone from his hot pink Motorola RAZR. In fact, he'll gladly ruin a friendly dinner in service of lambasting Apple devices to ...