The world of home robotics is rapidly advancing, offering unprecedented convenience and efficiency to households across the globe. However, as we eagerly propel forward, both the challenges and ...

Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...

These conditions at demos are useful for illustrating capabilities, but they mask many of the challenges that dominate real ...

The current state of robotics will be put to a serious test this weekend as 17 robots and software teams take their autonomous unmanned systems to Florida for the Defense Advanced Research Projects ...

This summer, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm of the Pentagon, is hosting a challenge that seeks to address the limitations of the human response to natural and ...

Aspiring engineers from 191 countries gathered in Panama City in October to compete in the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge. The annual contest aims to foster problem-solving, cooperation, and inspire ...

One of the hardest tasks for robots in the 2013 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge Trials was driving. During the DRC Finals in June, the 25 competing robots and ...

DALTON — The mood was electric inside the Wahconah Regional High School auditorium on Saturday. "This is the moment they've been working for," Mark Santella, announcer and master of ceremonies at the ...