A new approach could help a search-and-rescue robot navigate an unpredictable environment by rapidly generating an accurate ...

Countless startups are trying to solve hard robotics problems in industry. But few are looking to bring the tech into homes. Well, few except for Matic. A relatively new venture founded by Navneet ...

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If you’ve seen a robot vacuum at work, you’ve probably stared at it as it trundles around a room, gobbling up crumbs and dirt, dodging (or bumping into) every chair leg and stray sock you’ve got on ...

A little over three years have passed since I wrote my first article on Chuo Online in autumn of 2011. The article was about a summary of my research, entitled “Coexistence between humans and robots ~ ...

A UK-based company, 3D Laser Mapping, has developed robots equipped with lasers to automatically scan mines. Its latest mission was to create a 3D map of the San Jose silver mine in Mexico. The remote ...

An Amazon sidewalk mapping robot being driven in Everett, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Tim Ellis) While I was out on an ordinary drive through Everett, Wash., on Saturday morning, in between grabbing a ...

It’s one thing to keep robots from crashing into fixed obstacles like walls or furniture, but preventing collisions with other moving things is a much tougher challenge. Targeting teams of robots ...

Although underwater eruptions happen all the time, scientists have only recorded such events since the 1990s, and pumice rafts can often float under the radar. Typically, researchers use depth sensors ...