Robotics News

Getting workers up to speed on the latest artificial intelligence technology has become a priority for many of the world’s top companies. That includes the tech giants, which recently have announced new AI training and education initiatives aimed at getting workers...

Robots and artificial intelligence have a significant role to play in maintaining crumbling infrastructure — and they could help bring about a zero-carbon economy while they’re at it. That’s the conclusion of a new report by Gecko Robotics and Rho Impact, which...

Twenty one EU Member States have now joined the European efforts to make Europe the “quantum valley” of the world by signing the European declaration on quantum technologies during a conference organised today by the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU. The...

When the student leaders of the Northeastern University Mars Rover Team decided they were going to participate in the inaugural Winter Canadian International Rover Challenge, they thought it would be good practice more than anything else. They didn’t expect to win the...

A smoother experience for robotic prosthetic leg users is the aim of a University of Michigan project that has received renewed support from the National Institutes of Health. The R01 grant of $3 million will also enable the implementation of the researchers’ improved...

Northeastern team designs robot to detect aquatic weeds Enter the Hydrilla Hunter, an autonomous robotic boat outfitted with a hyperspectral camera designed to detect and identify the invasive plant. McKissick helped develop the boat with a dozen other Northeastern...

Your daily to-do list is likely pretty straightforward: wash the dishes, buy groceries, and other minutiae. It’s unlikely you wrote out “pick up the first dirty dish,” or “wash that plate with a sponge,” because each of these miniature steps within the chore...

A new study from MIT CSAIL, MIT Sloan, The Productivity Institute, and IBM’s Institute for Business Value provided more insight into how artificial intelligence could affect the job market. Its findings challenge the common belief that AI will put vast numbers of...

Scientists have created the world’s first working nanoscale electromotor, according to research published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. The science team designed a turbine engineered from DNA that is powered by hydrodynamic flow inside a nanopore, a...

IonQ , a leader in the quantum computing industry, announced that it hit its target technical milestone of 35 algorithmic qubits (#AQ) a full year ahead of schedule. This important milestone was achieved on IonQ Forte and leveraged the unique advantages of IonQ’s...

There has been $90 billion invested in robotics companies in the last five years, according to F-Prime Capital’s 2023 State of Robotics Report. With more than 1,250 companies currently within the industry, it can be hard to sift through them all to pinpoint the most...

Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME), Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia have developed a new computational tool to describe how the atoms within quantum materials behave...