In today's manufacturing environments, upgrading a robot fleet often means starting from scratch—not only replacing hardware, ...

Engineers have long envisioned a day when operators and robots would work in tandem, side-by-side on an assembly line. That futuristic image might be drawing ever closer given several advances in ...

GM is moving to implement new advanced robotics systems in its manufacturing operations, including new collaborative robots, or “cobots.” During the automaker’s recent GM Forward media event in New ...

The latest boom in robotics represents a revolution in the way machines have learned to interact with the world.

In 2014, Omron Corp. built robotic technology to rally with mankind at table tennis; European Space Agency robots transmitted data from the surface of a comet; and, to the dismay of the Federal ...

Proximity: Sensors that tell the robot if something is close by. Lidar/Radar: These use light or radio waves to measure ...