There is a place on FIU's smoke-free campus where cigarette smoking is allowed. But not just any cigarette. And only if you’re a robot. Professor Hoshang Unwalla, a researcher at the FIU Herbert ...

Scientists at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), have investigated the impact of the shadow produced by moving cleaning robots on ...

“On one hand, robots could take some of the most strenuous, physically intensive, and risky tasks reducing workers' risk. On the other hand, the competition with robots may increase the pressure on ...

In life science research involving cells, experiments are increasingly being conducted using robots. However, the impact of experimental parameters set for robots, such as the flow rate for aspirating ...

Though it’s the robot arms and architecture that get most of the attention, the end effectors (or end-of-arm tooling) is where the action happens…or doesn’t happen if the end effector can’t adapt to ...

Before Atlas takes its first steps into the world of work later this year, I found myself face-to-face with CES 2026's most ...

That seems like something they should have thought of. They've open-sourced the design, publishing it for anyone to build and develop in a paper in the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI. The robot ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size ...

A small tax on robots, as well as on trade generally, will help reduce income inequality in the U.S., according to economists. What if the U.S. placed a tax on robots? The concept has been publicly ...

Robotics manufacturer Apptronik announced this week that it has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with design and manufacturing giant Jabil to build, test, and deploy Apptronik’s Apollo ...

Researchers analyzed data on workplace injuries in the U.S., finding that injuries were reduced by 1.2 cases per 100 workers in regions with one standard deviation increase in robot exposure. But in ...