The Human Support Robot (HSR) has been created several years ago but remained in the lab until the team has recently decided to try it in the real world, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Digital Trends. These robots are already ...

In 2012, the Curiosity rover began its slow trek across the surface of Mars, listening for commands from Earth about where to go, what to photograph, which rocks to inspect. Then last year, something interesting happened: Curiosity started making decisions ...

Jingdong, or JD.com, China’s second-biggest e-commerce company after Alibaba, sent robots to deliver items for the first time yesterday (June 18), on the last day of a two-week-long shopping bonanza that recorded sales of around $17.6 billion, according to a ...

It is the first snake-shaped robot in the world that can move with its front tip off the ground, according to the team, which includes members from Tohoku University in Sendai, according to The Japan Times. The Tohoku region was ...

The robot’s ability to reliably walk across different types of surfaces is unique, and so is the fact that its elaborately shaped legs were created with a 3D printer, according to the engineers who developed the bio-inspired creature, Joinfo.com reports ...

Christened FEDOR – Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research – designers claim the futuristic sharpshooter would initially be deployed during search and rescue missions, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Daily Star. “FEDOR was designed as an android able to replace humans ...

This robot was created by a 19-year-old university student Michael Reeves, according to The Verge. Reeves coded the software for the robot in C# using an off-the-shelf facial recognition database, and built the targeting apparatus from a webcam, a pair ...

Disney Enterprises Inc. announced it has filed a U.S. patent for a 3D printed, interactive, soft robot, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Fox News. The application describes the new “soft body” robot to be built specifically for “physical interaction with ...

Japanese automakers are looking beyond the industry trend to develop self-driving cars and turning their attention to robots to help keep the country’s rapidly graying society on the move, Joinfo.com reports with reference to U.S. News. Toyota said it saw ...

31-year-old Zheng Jiajia married a robot he named “Yingying” in a traditional informal Chinese wedding ceremony, Joinfo.com reports with reference to South China Morning Post. A Chinese engineer has “married” a robot he created after failing to find a human ...

The industry most affected by automation is manufacturing. For every robot per thousand workers, up to six workers lost their jobs and wages fell by as much as three-fourths of a percent, according to a new paper by the economists, Daron Acemoglu ...

If all goes well there, Domino’s and Starship intend to bring robot pizza delivery to the Netherlands as well, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Tech Crunch. Starship’s devices have the look of a self-driving food cart, rather than some science fiction humanoid. They travel on six wheels at ...

People will be able to report crimes to the robot using a touchscreen on its chest, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Daily Express. The robot, in the wealthy United Arab Emirates city, can salute and shake hands. It will be ...

Jeff Bezos tried out the 13-foot-tall (4 meters) robot on Sunday, March 19, at his company’s private Machine Learning, Home Automation, Robotics and Space Exploration (MARS) conference, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Live Science. Video of the bot, developed by ...

An ‘exam-taking robot’ developed by China’s Chengdu Zhun Xing Yun Xue Technology Co. was defeated by a group of high school students in Chengdu in a test-taking competition, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Huffington Post. The four-year old robot took ...