All Robotics and Automation Stories and Videos

A robotic technology stack aimed at developers on a budget

08/16/17, 05:59 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Personal and Recreational, ros

Greg Nichols for ZDNet: Vincross, a Beijing-based robotics company, today announced a small programmable robot called HEXA. The new bot runs on MIND, an operating system built on the Linux kernel and optimized for robotics.

ROBO, The First Robotics & Automation ETF, Hits $1 Billion in Assets Under Management

08/14/17, 05:24 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | Investing

Index provider ROBO Global thanks investors for embracing firm's dedicated focus on robotics, automation and artificial Intelligence

How Robots Using Amazon Alexa Could Help Injured People Be More Mobile at Home

08/11/17, 05:58 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | amazon, Exoskeleton, Health Robotics

Barb Darrow for Fortune: A Canadian-American robotics company is turning to the popular Amazon Alexa-Echo combo to help people with spinal or lower-body injuries be more mobile and autonomous in their homes.

Why Co-Parenting With Telepresence Robots Could Be a Fantastic Idea

08/09/17, 05:42 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | telepresence

Heather Knight for IEESpectrum: The Beam remote presence system, from Suitable Technologies, allows you to "beam in" and visit family members from anywhere. Social roboticist Heather Knight argues that such technology could become a valuable co-parenting tool.

Robotics, artificial intelligence fund has tripled the Dow this year

08/07/17, 06:57 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | Investing, Robot Stocks

Evelyn Cheng for CNBC: Artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics are making some real money for stock investors, and beating the market.

Robert Shiller: Fear of robots is driving the market rally

08/03/17, 09:13 PM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | Robot Stocks

Alex Rosenberg for CNBC: "A theme that I have been coming back to is that the big worry that's on people's minds - I don't know how active it is in trading - but it's about where the world is going with automation and robotics,"

Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017 won by Australian budget bot

08/02/17, 06:44 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | amazon, Pick and place

BBC: Cartman - a budget-priced robot from Australia - has triumphed in an annual contest to create a machine that can identify, pick up and stow warehouse goods.

Kaboom! Russian Drone With Thermite Grenade Blows Up a Billion Dollars of Ukranian Ammo

07/31/17, 05:21 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | drones

Kyle Mizokami for Popular Mechanics: A drone carrying a grenade infiltrated an ammunition dump in the Ukraine, setting off an explosion that caused an astounding billion dollars worth of damage.

Amazon Enlists Researchers to Build Box-Packing Robots

07/28/17, 05:53 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | amazon, Collaborative Robots, Pick and place

Joshua Brustein for Bloomberg: Teams competing in Amazon's third-annual contest tackle a problem that has kept companies from automating warehouses entirely.

Open Board for 3D Gesture Control, Motion Capturing, Tracking and Robotics

07/27/17, 05:51 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | motion control

Action, gesture, motion, and robots can be kept under control through a wearable, small but powerful electronic board.

Teaching Drones How To Crash Safely

07/26/17, 05:40 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | drones, Technology Discussions, unmanned

Simon Parkin for MIT Technology Review: Drone delivery won't happen until the unmanned vehicle can master the emergency landing.

As California's labor shortage grows, farmers race to replace workers with robots

07/24/17, 05:37 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Agriculture

Geoffrey Mohan for LA Times: Now, the $47-billion agriculture industry is trying to bring technological innovation up to warp speed before it runs out of low-wage immigrant workers.

Robotics experts dismiss Musk's call for AI regulation

07/21/17, 05:46 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Artificial Intelligence, Collaborative Robots, deep learning

Steve LeVine for AXIOS: Musk, along with Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking, has been one of the leading voices warning of a dystopian, machine-led future if humans are not careful.

Elon Musk: 'Robots will be able to do everything better than us'

07/19/17, 05:30 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Artificial Intelligence, deep learning

Catherine Clifford for CNBC: "There certainly will be job disruption. Because what's going to happen is robots will be able to do everything better than us. ... I mean all of us,"

Professor Michael Gennert Looks Back at a First Decade of Robotics Engineering Program

07/17/17, 05:50 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | Training and Education

WPI.edu: The program's stature as a successful academic pioneer in the robotics field has grown worldwide

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