Countless startups are trying to solve hard robotics problems in industry. But few are looking to bring the tech into homes. Well, few except for Matic. A relatively new venture founded by Navneet ...

A new approach could help a search-and-rescue robot navigate an unpredictable environment by rapidly generating an accurate ...

MIT researchers have built a new AI system that allows robots to create detailed 3D maps of complex environments within seconds. The technology could transform how search-and-rescue robots navigate ...

TOKYO – Hitachi is working on an R2D2-like security robot on wheels that can map out its surroundings using infrared sensors and a camera to detect missing items, suspicious packages and intruders.

An architecture project in London has been using Boston Dynamics’ four-legged robot, Spot, to gather data from a construction site and map out a digital twin of its office space. The project—the ...

A recent competition held in Pittsburgh seemed like an episode of BattleBots or Robot Wars. Eleven teams built several robots each to navigate underground environments in a timed competition. But this ...

An Amazon sidewalk mapping robot being driven in Everett, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Tim Ellis) While I was out on an ordinary drive through Everett, Wash., on Saturday morning, in between grabbing a ...

It’s one thing to keep robots from crashing into fixed obstacles like walls or furniture, but preventing collisions with other moving things is a much tougher challenge. Targeting teams of robots ...

A little over three years have passed since I wrote my first article on Chuo Online in autumn of 2011. The article was about a summary of my research, entitled “Coexistence between humans and robots ~ ...

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