The lab robots — adapted, lidar-guided [light detection and ranging] industrial units made by Kuka of Germany — move slowly between automated benchtop reactors and analytical equipment, carrying out ...

To build the experimental stations of the future, scientists at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE's ...

Researchers in the the labs of Ron Alterovitz, a Lawrence Grossberg Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and Jim Cahoon, a professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry, ...

Discover how to build a mini vibrating robot spider using simple household materials. This step-by-step guide shows you how ...

A small robotic surgeon was successfully launched to the International Space Station last week. It was joined by a bunch of equally impressive experiments, including machine learning devices and ...

The 2004 sci-fi action flick I, Robot (streaming now on Peacock) features Will Smith as Del Spooner, a Chicago detective in the year 2035. It’s a loose adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s robot stories, ...

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Many robots track objects by “sight” as they work with them, but optical sensors can't take in an item's entire shape when it's in the dark or partially blocked from view. Now a new low-cost technique ...

The European Space Agency has been hosting a series of robotic teleoperation experiments where an astronaut abroad on the ISS controls a robot back on the ground. We’ve previously reported on some of ...

Researchers believe the yawning robot may have triggered some biological mechanism in the chimps that they associated with sleep. Image: Popular Science composite, Getty Images/ RMJM, Aline ...