By incorporating insights from canine companions, researchers enable robots to use both language and gesture as inputs to help fetch the right objects.

Tom Stevens wanted to find a way to help his mother, Nancy, overcome a very specific problem when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. She had a two-year-old dog which she was very attached to, ...

The council will discuss the funding again April 7 after a March 24 workshop meeting on police technology.

In this project, we build robots that can see using their own camera “eyes.” Follow the process of combining 3D printing, animatronics, and robotics to create a system that allows robots to detect and ...

Fighting robots is a cultural fantasy going back at least to Richard Matheson’s 1956 story “Steel.” One Detroit impresario is ...

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Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined ...

Four-legged robots that scramble up stairs, stride over rubble, and stream inspection data — no preorder, no lab coat required.

Summary: For humans, “fetch” is a simple game, but for robots, locating a specific object in a cluttered room is a computational nightmare. Researchers have found a surprising solution by looking at ...

Whether in the kitchen or on a workshop floor, robot assistants that can fetch items for people could be extremely useful.

Using artificial intelligence, they are able to train the robots to move through positive and negative reinforcement, similar to how someone would train a dog. Each module can be ...

The Wichita Police Department will ask the City Council to approve $650,000 in funding for two robotic dogs: one for the SWAT ...