Czech playwright Karel Capek coined the word “robot” in his seminal 1920 work, “Rossum’s Universal Robots.” In this dark piece of sci-fi, the term described flesh-and-blood laborers made from organic ...

A new bio-inspired robot climbs walls by mimicking that simple yet effective mechanism, although thankfully it leaves a trail of water instead of mucus. Known as the sliding suction robot (SSR), the ...

It is not hard to find popular depictions of robots in the future. What comes to my mind is Rosie the robot maid from the animated comic “The Jetsons.” Ever faithful and dependable, she is as much a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The top three companies in the Chinese smartphone market last year were Vivo, Apple, and Oppo.

The Five, the latest offering from Tencent Robotics X Lab, was unveiled on Tuesday. The residential robot, created as a general-purpose robot that can coexist safely and harmoniously with people, ...

Cynthia Sung, head of the Sung Robotics Lab within Penn’s GRASP Lab, is especially interested in getting high school students into engineering. Self-folding origami robots, anyone? Cynthia Sung.

(TNS) — Thursday was a night to remember for the School of Engineering (SOE) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. An SOE ceremony unveiled the renovated Enterprise Holdings Foundation Atrium ...

LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Opentrons Labworks, Inc., a leader in lab automation and accessible robotics, today announced the launch of the Opentrons Flex™ Prep robot, paired with new ...

Robot vacuums have steadily improved their cleaning performance and object avoidance over the years, but during our testing at CNET Labs, we discovered an odd trade-off.