Robotics

Robots boost
elder-care workers

Nursing homes in Japan have increasingly turned to robots, and new research for the first time...

CES 2025: Flying bikes define cutting edge

Amphibious drones, chess-playing robots and AI emotion trackers on show were more than mere concepts, writes...

CES 2025: Robots rule
the revolution

At the world’s biggest consumer tech show, one can barely move without bumping into a robot,...

China moves up global robot ranking

The World Robotics 2024 report shows Germany and Japan being overtaken, while Korea maintains its number...

Robotics? Quantum? Look beyond the hype

Innovation is not about the latest tech, writes JAMES BERGIN, Xero EGM for technology research and...

Robots are rising – and bringing sci-fi to reality

Robots are transitioning from simple helpers to intelligent companions and will soon enter our daily lives,...

Dance moves teach robots to work with humans

Agility of humanoid robots pave the way for improving human-robot interactions, from assembly lines to hospitals.

Robots learn to feel better

Touch sensors that don’t even need direct contact offer new sensitivity for robots and the ability...

Robots hit record high across the world

Demand for operational robots is being driven by a number of technological innovations, from artificial intelligence...

Surgical robot launches into space

A surgeon’s hands could stretch all the way to the International Space Station, via a miniaturised...

AI heading for the factory

For the first time globally, an AI technology has been developed in Korea for using robots...

China leads global growth of industrial robots

Almost 4-million robots were in use across various industries by the end of 2022, writes Statista...

We don’t know what we don’t know, but robots could

How do you make a robot smarter? By programming it with awareness of its knowledge gaps.

Consumers resist robots
on their doorsteps

A study has found that consumers are more prepared for automated vehicle delivery than for drones...

Want to work with robots? There’s a course for that

Universal Robots Academy has trained more than 200,000 people to use collaborative robotics.

Bot workers can unlock a data goldmine

Robotic Process Automation can result in a business unearthing new business intelligence, writes FILUM HO, CEO...

Teaching robots to teach other robots

A new study finds that AI agents that know "stuff" can quickly learn a wider range...