The students competed against teams from more than 190 countries worldwide, with each team tasked with developing a robot.

A spiring engineers from 191 countries gathered in Panama City in October to compete in the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge. The annual contest aims to foster problem-solving, cooperation, and inspire ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We ...

“Can robots save lives?” This is the question at the heart of the DARPA Robotics Challenge. In DRC 101, we embed with the organizers and engineers pushing robots to perform tasks that might someday ...

I was a little disappointed by China’s World Humanoid Robot Games. As fun as real-life Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots is, what ...

The robotics sector is booming, yet a fundamental challenge persists: moving autonomous machines safely and efficiently from ...

WORCESTER, Mass. — A vehicle drives toward a disaster site, robot at the wheel. The robot stops the car and then steps out to walk toward the disaster. That’s not scene from the latest sci-fi movie, ...

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

For robotics, from surgical systems to robotaxis, to be integrated into daily life, they need reliable connectivity, writes a ...

This weekend, Google-acquired Schaft bested 15 others teams competing in a robotics challenge sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), by remotely navigating a sophisticated ...