Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to un… ...

Building a simple robot arm is a lot more straightforward than it used to be. If you have a laser cutter, or a bit of cash and don’t mind waiting for postage, there are inexpensive kits like the ...

This robot is so dumb and goofy but also very, very decent at its very, very simple job: it packs up bolts in such perfect alternating orientation that it would make any factory worker jealous.

Robot self-awareness is one step closer today after engineers at Columbia University built a robotic arm that can ... Kwiatkowski created a pretty simple robot, an articulated arm with four ...

The startup has also raised $4.7 million in crowdfunding, along with a $6.1 million Series A led by Joe Rodriguez of Pancho Ryan LLC. The company is currently in development for its robot arms ...

The iRobot Braava is a mopping robot that uses simple design principles to make it affordable and effective. We teardown the robot to learn its design and manufacturing secrets.

Test subjects who tried out a robotic arm for the physically-challenged found it "too easy," indicating peoples' tendency to prefer some challenge in their lives.

The team calls the robot arm Mantis, and it was designed to offer a lightweight, affordable, and accessible haptic force feedback device. Haptic feedback aims to simulate the sense of touch.

According to a recent study published in Advanced Intelligent Systems, the brain can adapt to an artificial third arm and use it for simple tasks. This keeps alive the dream of precision mechanics ...

Roboticists from the nation’s top universities recently created a self-aware mechanical arm that taught itself how to move. “The idea is that robots need to take care of themselves,” says ...