Moving from demo floors to real-world duty to assist humans, India’s rising ‘robot dogs’ are gearing up to leave labs behind ...

Meet seven robots already tackling bomb disposal, firefighting, deep-sea exploration, pipeline inspection, construction, ...

Up until recently, this work has mostly been evaluated in the lab. But last year, researchers deployed the assistive feeding ...

Spot is a a four-legged, dog-like robot at the University of Colorado Boulder originally designed for subterranean search and rescue. Meanwhile, another robotics team is developing a tiny ...

It is not hard to find popular depictions of robots in the future. What comes to my mind is Rosie the robot maid from the animated comic “The Jetsons.” Ever faithful and dependable, she is as much a ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

Early humanoid deployments will often rely on teleoperation: humans controlling robots remotely to perform useful tasks while ...

Suspended on a cable fixed between two trees in front of the Engineering Gateway building on UC Irvine’s campus hangs the RaccoonBot. And well, he’s just adorable. “The ‘cute factor’ wasn’t just a ...