Moving an object from one location to another—picking and placing—is an ideal application for industrial robots due to the robots’ repeatability, throughput and favorable return on investment. It is ...

One of the jobs for which robots are best suited is the tedious, repetitive "pick and place" task common in warehouses — but humans are still much better at it. UC Berkeley researchers are picking up ...

We’d be entirely wrong to think that Fichertechnik is just a toy for kids. It’s also perfect for prototyping the control system of robots. [davidatfsg]’s recent entry in the Hackaday Prize, Delta ...

Munich-based Agile Robots has unveiled its first-ever humanoid robot dubbed Agile ONE. Announced on November 19, it is built to handle the complexity of the factory floor. The five-fingered humanoid ...

There have been many advances in vision-language models (VLM) that can match natural language queries to objects in a visual scene. And researchers are experimenting with how these models can be ...

Artificial intelligence applications have been growing rapidly in a variety of industrial technologies, ranging from data analytics and quality inspections to autonomous mobile robots. Now the ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12 2020, – Kindred reports that its installed fleet of its AI-powered SORT robots have picked a lifetime of 100 million retail units since market launch in 2017. Kindred also ...

A new gripper robot grasps by reflex. Rather than start from scratch after a failed attempt, the bot adapts in the moment to reflexively roll, palm, or pinch an object to get a better hold. When ...

Craft and construction kits have been a blessing in our recent lockdown phases, and now there’s a new one that might appeal to those interested in tinkering with robots. ArmPal is a robot arm kit that ...