Thanks to a $41.5 million award from the federal Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, HERL will be leading a project ...

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Assistive robots and related technologies are revolutionising the way society caters to the needs of an ageing population and individuals with disabilities. By integrating collaborative robotics, ...

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Jun Zhang, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research interests lie in the intersection of control theory, robotics, ...

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Tega is a new platform, developed at MIT, for research in socially assistive robotics. The Tega design expands on MIT's past work with squash-and-stretch style robots like Dragonbot but introduces new ...

Once again, scientists have created something to give humanoid robots skills that no human possesses without asking themselves if it is truly a good idea.

RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards will recognize the leading technologies, businesses, startups, and applications of the past ...