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Researchers at Princeton University and the University of Washington have created an ultra-compact camera the size of a coarse grain of salt. The researchers said it can take pictures as well as a camera 500,000 larger in volume. The tiny camera could someday be used...

Whether moving or positioning objects, accessing dangerous environments, handling hazardous materials like medical waste or simply helping out around the house, there is a tremendous demand for autonomous mobile robots. The post Precise motion systems drive autonomous...

The robotics industry has seen tremendous growth over the past couple of years. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated this growth by opening up more sectors of the economy to robotics. Today, thousands of mobile robots are running around warehouses and factories, and...

The ultimate purpose of robotics is to improve the human condition. Our bodies are vulnerable to damage and disrepair. In the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the entry on “care robots” highlights the societal benefits over countering dystopian fears... The post...

A research team at North Carolina State University (NCSU) has developed a quicker thermal actuator for soft robotic devices. Actuators create motion by converting energy into work. The post NCSU researchers make faster thermal actuator appeared first on The Robot...

Researchers have discovered a hard-to-observe type of spin in a quantum mechanical system. In physics, a quantum mechanical system is a set of components that interact at the quantum scale. This is the realm of atoms and subatomic particles such as those defined in...

When walking through the halls of Cedars Sinai Hospital in LA, you might run into Moxi, a pair of white robots with light up, heart-shaped eyes. Moxi is tasked with helping nurses do time consuming but simple tasks, so they can have more time to do more complicated...

Employees at Ward Aquafarms in Cape Cod frequently undergo the monumental task of overturning thousands of floating mesh bags of oysters. Farmworkers kayak out to the bags, which can weigh up to 70 lb, and flip each one by hand. The post Meet Oystamaran, MIT’s...

How do these devices work? Broadly, a quantum network must interface with a quantum computer (or other quantum device), capture and faithfully transmit a qubit-based information stream to another device able to use the data. The post Quantum Networking and Clustering...

There are more than three million industrial robots operating in factories around the world, according to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). The post 10 most automated countries worldwide appeared first on The Robot Report.

The world is learning to live with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in response to that, comes new and improved facility cleaning and disinfection best practices. The Whiz Gambit autonomous mobile robot (AMR) is a 2-in-1 AI-powered cleaning and disinfection...

Many soft robotic grippers are inspired by the way a fish’s fin bends. They involve triangular components that bend inward, around an object to grip it. These components have transverse beams that sit at a 90° angle, which help the gripper to bend around an object....