The human body and sharp objects don’t get along very well, especially when they are being wielded with ill-intent. Since ...

Aryan Gupta’s sanitation rover replaces unsafe manual drain cleaning with a remotely operated, low-cost robot that protects workers and exemplifies ethical, human-centered engineering in urban India.

European roboticists today released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that acts as a brain for industrial robots—helping them grasp and manipulate things with new dexterity. The new ...

Researchers have developed a new 3D printing technique that creates paper-thin ‘magnetic muscles’ capable of bringing origami structures to life to deliver medicine inside the body. A crawler robot ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Jason Riley, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson. When I was invited recently to tour an Amazon distribution center in Denver with a few ...

Corinne Reichert (she/her) grew up in Sydney, Australia and moved to California in 2019. She holds degrees in law and communications, and currently writes news, analysis and features for CNET across ...

A new category of sensing technology transforms mobile robot vision from 2D to 3D, improves safety performance and provides 50-80% cost savings compared to traditional, LiDAR-based systems and sensor ...

Qualcomm notched another acquisition for its edge computing plans this week. Arduino makes hardware and software often associated with edge computing, in which data is handled on-device (the edge) ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Police in Northern California were understandably perplexed when they pulled over a Waymo taxi after it made an illegal U-turn, only to find no driver behind the wheel and therefore, ...

Shares of Shenzhen-based Orbbec have surged more than 315% over the past year, propelling Howard Huang, its 45-year-old founder, into the three-comma club. In 2013, Howard Huang, a trained engineer ...

I didn’t want to do it, but the abstract caught my eye: a paper on Malka Older’s 2016 novel, Infomocracy. Older’s book is a post-cyberpunk techno-thriller, set in a global democracy where ...