In the 1980s, when micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) were first invented, engineers imagined a future where robots ...

It’s still early days for 3D printing, but there seems little doubt that it will influence future architectural practices. So believes Gijs van der Velden, co-founder of MX3D, a robotics startup based ...

Can robots help us build structures faster, smarter, and cheaper? Built Robotics makes a self-driving excavator. Doxel develops a robot powered solution that uses computer vision to help track and ...

Several firms including Tesla are vying to build humanoid robots. But widespread adoption faces hurdles including safety ...

A pair of swivelling, human-like robotic arms, built for physical artificial intelligence research, mirror the motions of an operator in a VR headset twirling his hands like a magician.

We learned the hard way that the distance between a great demo and a great deployment is measured by what happens when ...

Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to ...

A voice-controlled vehicle. A shape-shifting probe designed to squeeze inside aircraft. A blood-suctioning surgical assistant. These were just some of the innovations on display at the recent Toronto ...

FireBot is a 300-pound, four-foot-long robot that can enter a burning building to gather information for firefighters.

Robots, the team argues, can mimic these abilities using a quantum magnetometer (which detects magnetic field direction).

More than 180 robots built by students from more than a dozen Manitoba schools duked it out on Saturday, battling over rough terrain and in sumo wrestling rings for the title of best bot. "We don't ...