How do you get a robot to inspect a tank with high vertical walls? If the walls are made of certain kinds of metal, you just stick a magnet on it. But many large tanks utilized in the food & beverage ...

According to Pennsylvania State University's Asst. Prof. Long He, the mushroom-farming industry is currently experiencing a labor shortage. His team has thus set about addressing that problem, by ...

When you think of badass underwater robots, a new creation from researchers at China’s Beihang University and Harvard University has to rank pretty darn high. What they have developed is a ...

Amazon's new robotic arm is capable of handling and sorting millions of unique items - a major milestone for the ecommerce giant - and a sign that it could one day replace a large number of its human ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed a robotic suction cup prototype that is much stronger than current industrial solutions. It can grab onto rough, curved, and heavy objects like ...

We've explored more of outer space than our own ocean floor, and there are good reasons for that. Space is empty, so there's nothing to get in the way. In the ocean, water is everywhere, and explorers ...

A cannister of oatmeal, a tube of chips, or a box of teabags—it’s all the same to this warehouse automaton. Developed by Ocado, the world’s largest online-only grocery retailer, the machine has been ...

The team from Bristol University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering designed the smart robot, which uses fluid flows of air or water to coordinate suction and movement as octopuses do. The study ...