I remember when I was a young lad making simple robots using household items such as motors from vacuum cleaners (sorry mom). Robotic vision? Computerized control systems? Don't make me laugh! How ...

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

Tired of watching cool robotics projects online and feeling like they’re out of your reach? You’re not alone. Many enthusiasts face the challenge of turning their tech dreams into reality. But what if ...

A career in robotics is one of the most coveted things for those interested in engineering and automation. Presently, there is an explosion in the number of companies seeking innovative robotics ...

National Instruments’ LabVIEW has been used with robots for decades. It mostly has been employed by developers looking to take advantage of graphical programming tools (see “LabVIEW: Graphical ...

Alphabet’s X group, the R&D lab formerly known as Google X, introduced the Everyday Robot Project on Thursday. The project comes out of Alphabet’s string of robotics acquisitions several years ago, ...

There were no robots available for the class. But when Don Davis and Brian Guy were approached by undergraduates in the engineering technology robotics class for support, they found a way to improve ...

New research helps robots combine language and gestures to find objects in cluttered spaces, improving how they understand ...

Inside a UNC-Chapel Hill Science lab sits an autonomous robot. Imagine a machine like a Roomba, but with an arm, so it can pick up things like a dirty sock off the floor. A group of researchers from ...

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A developer who writes all the software would need expertise in real-time programming, motor control, AI, maybe some image and video processing, and so on. Fortunately, platforms like ROS (Robot ...