A robotics engineering professor is building tiny, autonomous flying robots that can use sound waves to navigate in total darkness like bats.

WPI researchers are enabling aerial robots, smaller than 100 mm and weighing less than 100 g, to navigate without relying on vision.

Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy, SRT-H, performing gallbladder surgery on a pig cadaver. Credit: Juo-Tung Chen, Johns Hopkins University Almost a quarter of all surgeries in the United States use ...

Dot.” “Dash.” Short pulse, long pulse. Humans invented Morse code as a way to communicate using electrical signals. Now, bees ...

Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations. Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has ...

Why This Is Important: The reason this is such a game-changer is that most robots are one-trick ponies. A walking robot gets stuck if it needs to cross water. Why Should I Care: This isn’t just about ...

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Learn how lessons from medical robot design can be applied to all robotics from cobots to humanoids and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Enjoying Machine Design’s Motion Systems content? Be sure to ...

It's been three years since a new Litter-Robot came out, but the iconic self-scooping litter box lineup is finally evolving once again. Whisker unveiled the Litter-Robot 5 lineup on Oct. 21, ...

South Korea's vision of a sci-fi future is on full display as the 2025 Future Innovation Technology Expo (FIX 2025) kicked off in Daegu. Dubbed "Korea's CES," the massive four-day event features 585 ...

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