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Harvard and MIT team up to create an inchworm robot that self-folds into place with little human intervention. Continue reading →

Intuitive Surgical, maker of the da Vinci surgical robot, has issued an "urgent medical device notification" alerting hospitals that it has "identified a potential issue" with one of the robot's instruments that can cause internal burns.

Intuitive Surgical, maker of the da Vinci surgical robot, has issued an "urgent medical device notification" alerting hospitals that it has "identified a potential issue" with one of ...

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In robotics, as in life, it often takes small steps to reach a big goal

Take a pair hi-fi speakers, an old radio, a couple of DVD players and countless other household appliances, apply some ingenuity and what do you get?

In the presence of extreme stench, one robot feigns fainting; the other says "Emergency taking place!" Continue reading →

It's normal to see a former prime minister and a maple leaf gracing a new Canadian banknote – but now they must make way for the robots        

POMPANO BEACH, Fla., May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- RoboLabs Inc. says that the safest lawn mower in the world is a robot lawn mower capable of operating completely without the use of a perimeter wire ...

UPenn researchers presented the acrobatic feats of their robot today at a conference on robotics and automation.        

Robot could be used to scout or send stranded climbers supplies        

ZURICH, Switzerland, May 8 (UPI) -- Swiss researchers say they've created a sticky-footed robot that can climb rocky cliff faces while carrying five times its own weight.

This jumping robot video will make you love robots even more

Sakakibara Kikai's latest drivable robot exoskeleton comes with a power drill hand. What else could junior want? Originally posted at Crave

Sakakibara Kikai's latest drivable robot exoskeleton comes with a power drill hand. What else could junior want? [Read more]        

When all the humans went home for the day, a personal-assistant robot under development in a university lab recently built digital images of a pineapple and a bag of bagels that were inadvertently left on a table – and figured out how it could lift them.The researchers didn't even know the objects were in the room. Instead of being frightened at their robot's independent streak, the researchers ...

Enabling inspection of up to few hundred parts per day with accuracy of up to 0.085 mm in shop floor conditions, MetraSCAN-R™ series includes 2 versions of optical CMM 3D scanners, 70-R and 210-R, designed for automated and robotized applications. System can be fully configured and programmed to meet inspection automation projects requirements for parts of various sizes and shapes, and ...

BOZEN, Sud-Tirol, Italy, May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Robotics' i.v.STATION Robot continued on its undeterred path to collect endorsements and customer testimonials from pharmacists all over the ...

Researchers in Switzerland are currently working on an interesting new robot that uses melting plastic feet to adhere to vertical surfaces. The robot is designed with special footpads that heat rapidly allowing plastic compounds to melt and ooze into the surface that the bot needs to climb. Molded plastic feet may not sound particularly strong, Read The Full Story

Robot-assisted surgery to remove kidney cancers has seen a rapid increase in use, and has both replaced and proven safer than laparoscopic procedures for the same purpose, according to a study by the Vattikuti Urology Institute at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.