The Roborock Saros Z70 robot vacuum cleans like a dream, but its mechanical arm, which promises to pick up small items like socks, still needs work.

University of Science and Technology of China has made a fascinating development in robotics, with the octopus-inspired robotic arm led by Nikolaos Freris. It combines the dexterity of a human hand ...

While roughly no one would consider using a sophisticated robot to stir the soup in the pot, Huenit’s multi-functional device can easily do that too. But it would be a waste to only use it for such ...

Embodied learning for object-centric robotic manipulation is a rapidly developing and challenging area in embodied AI. It is ...

After three months of testing Roborock's ambitious Saros Z70, its headline-grabbing robotic arm is still just a proof of concept. Ajay has worked in tech journalism for over a decade as a reporter, ...

Stacking an object on top of another object is a straightforward task for most people. But even the most complex robots struggle to handle more than one such task at a time. Stacking requires a range ...

If robot baseball were a thing—oh, somebody please look into that, that sounds amazing—you’d definitely want this robot arm developed by EPFL researchers on the team. This particular arm is capable of ...

3D machine vision is one of the key areas of investment in automation as robots increasingly rely on 3D vision to interact with parts, especially for pick-and-place, bin-picking and precision assembly ...

There are some things a robot can't do, but catching a flying object is no longer one of them. With its four-fingered, three-jointed hand, a new robot can catch a ball, a bottle or a tennis racket ...