Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

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The word “robot” was not used in literature until 1920, when Czech playwright Karel Capek wrote the play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) that debuted a year later and made it to New York City in ...

A robot visited a Cincinnati department store in 1977, attempting to sell coats and make friends. He wasn’t always a success. The robot was named Sam Struggle Gear. He told the reporter there were 25 ...

Robots don’t need humans watching their every move. But the employees responsible for ensuring the robots perform properly must be technologically adept, another sign of the changing requirements of ...

Earlier this year, a robot completed a half-marathon in Beijing in just under 2 hours and 40 minutes. That's slower than the human winner, who clocked in at just over an hour—but it's still a ...

The state Office for the Aging has partnered with Intuition Robotics to bring ElliQ, a robot that interacts with older adults to increase socialization and healthy lifestyles, to approximately 800 ...

Co-founder & CEO at InOrbit, a leading data management platform for autonomous robots, and co-founder of Robot Operations Group. Much has been written about the impact of automation. Since the ...

Previous generations thought of robots as pure science fiction. Today, robots are a ubiquitous reality, and robotics is a thriving and fast-growing industry. Modern robots are not necessarily the ...