The biggest advantage of this friend is that it can work ‘007 (0 o’clock to 0 o’clock, seven days a week),’” said Lao, a publicity official at UBTECH, a humanoid (human-shaped) robot company in Shenzhen,

Apptronik worked with Austin-based Argodesign to craft Apollo’s deliberately neutral aesthetic. The concave face uses LED technology that enables the robot’s “mouth” to convey visual cues, like words or an ellipsis symbol to indicate that it is thinking or processing.

Unlike traditional industrial robots, humanoid robots are uniquely suited to operate in shipyards designed for human workers.

Icarus just raised a $6.1 million seed round led by Soma Capital and Xtal, with participation from Nebular and Massive Tech Ventures to get there.

A single AI model trained to control numerous robotic bodies can operate unfamiliar hardware and adapt eerily well to serious injuries.

The system takes a CAD-style product specification and automatically generates a complete assembly plan, including factory layout, task assignments, collaborative payload transport, and collision-free navigation.

The system, called RoboBallet, has been designed to help teams of automated robots that work in shared, obstacle-filled spaces like assembly lines and factory floors, to plan their movements and tasks automatically – without colliding with each other or ...

Amazon has developed a new warehouse robot that uses touch to rummage around shelves to find the right product to ship to customers. The robot, called Vulcan, is a meaningful step toward making robots less sausage-fingered compared to human beings.

Days after Meagan Brazil-Sheehan’s 6-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia, they were walking down the halls of UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center when they ran into Robin the Robot. “Luca, how are you?” it asked in a high-pitched voice programmed to sound like a 7-year-old girl. “It’s been awhile.”

Astra, a 4-foot-tall silver cyborg, is still in training, and her gig at Astra Vascular so far includes waving at customers, running down the sidewalk and handing out flyers on Steinway Street. But Dr. George Bolotin has higher hopes for his robot.