Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China said they have developed a soft robotic “finger” with a sense of touch that can perform routine doctor office examinations, including taking a patient’s pulse and checking for abnormal lumps. The post Researchers create robotic finger that could perform medical examinations appeared first on The […]

Sales of professional service robots have increased by 30% worldwide, according to the International Federation of Robotics, or IFR. The Frankfurt, Germany-based organization said that its statistics department registered more than 205,000 units in 2023. The post Service robot sales climb by 30% worldwide, reports the IFR appeared first on The Robot Report.

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Vanderbilt University are pioneering a new approach to prostate cancer surgery by combining advanced robotics and “low-field” MRI technology. The post Researchers combine robotics, MRI tech for new approach to prostate cancer surgery appeared first on The Robot Report.

Robot Utility Models, or RUM for short, are a new area of research and development for the advancement of AI training for robotics. RUM was created by Lerrel Pinto, an assistant professor of computer science, and a team at at New York University. This open-source research project is attempting to generalize training for robots when […]

October was another busy month for the robotics industry. It included many new developments and the return of exciting events, like RoboBusiness, which took in Santa Clara, Calif. Large funding rounds, new AI product developments, and, of course, humanoids were just a few of the things that drew our readers’ attention this month.   Here are […]

Fifty-four producers of robots and robotics enabling technologies raised funding in September 2024, pulling in a total of $3.7 billion. This is the highest monthly funding amount for 2024. The post Robotics investments top $3.7B in September appeared first on The Robot Report.

Teleoperation can be a powerful method, not only for performing complex tasks, but also for collecting on-robot data. This data is essential for robot learning from demonstrations, as teleoperation offers accurate and precise examples, plus natural and smooth trajectories for imitation learning. These allow the learned policies to generalize to a environments, configurations, and tasks.  […]

State-of-the-art prosthetic limbs can help people with amputations achieve a natural walking gait, but they don’t give the user full neural control over the limb. Instead, they rely on robotic sensors and controllers that move the limb using predefined gait algorithms. The post Brain-controlled prosthesis creates natural gait for amputees appeared first on The Robot […]

The path to success in food robotics is littered with interesting concepts that failed to deliver. Chef Robotics is a young startup that has built a healthy portfolio of clients and iterated quickly over the last two years to mature the capabilities of its autonomous meal assembly solution. The post Automating food production, one serving […]

Northwestern University engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting — just like a human muscle. To demonstrate their new device, called an actuator, the researchers used it to create a cylindrical, worm-like soft robot and an artificial bicep. In experiments, the cylindrical soft robot navigated the […]