AI and Robotics Drive Next-Gen Farming at CES 2023
CES 2023 in Las Vegas assembled over 3,200 exhibitors, including 1,000 startups, with a notable surge in agricultural technology powered…
Mechanical Design & Robotics
Porosity-Engineered Soft Robots Achieve Jointless Multidimensional Motion
Soft robotics continues to push beyond the constraints of rigid mechanisms, offering adaptable solutions for grasping, locomotion, and manipulation. A…
Humanoid Robots Surge Amid AI Breakthroughs
When Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, encountered a video in August of a sleek, China-made humanoid…
DLR’s Moon-Mars Test Site Advances Planetary Robotics
On 26 September 2023, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) inaugurated its Moon-Mars Test Site at the Robotics and Mechatronics Center…
European Robotics Startups Reshape Industrial and Service Sectors
Over the past three years, Europe’s robotics sector has accelerated from a niche market into a magnet for generalist venture…
US brake-pedal rewrite could reshape robotaxi certification pathways
Some carefully crafted changes to brake rules in the United States would potentially have disproportionate effect on the architecture and…
Landmark-Driven DRL Boosts Mobile Robot Navigation
Mobile robots are increasingly deployed in applications ranging from household cleaning to hazardous industrial inspection, where autonomous navigation through complex,…
ASPEED Unveils 360° Smart Factory and Server Security SoCs
At COMPUTEX 2023 in Taipei, ASPEED Technology Inc. presented a suite of innovations that merge panoramic imaging with industrial and…
Rowan University Advances Soft Robotics Education
In the public imagination, robots are often envisioned as rigid, metallic constructs—towering Transformers, Pixar’s WALL-E, or the droids of Star…
Epson Targets Easier Factory Automation With Cobot, Compact Robots
With its attendance at Automate 2026 in Chicago, Epson Robots is looking to drive home a specific point to manufacturers…
Schneider Electric Expands Lexium Cobot Line at MODEX
At MODEX 2024, Schneider Electric introduced two new additions to its Lexium collaborative robot lineup—the RL 3 and RL 12—alongside…
NVIDIA’s Eureka Merges LLMs and Simulation for Robot Mastery
A new research initiative from NVIDIA has demonstrated an AI system capable of autonomously generating reward algorithms that enable robots…
Robotics Funding Faces Sharp Decline Amid Sector Shifts
Between 2019 and 2023, approximately 1,500 robotics startups secured a combined $90 billion in funding, with 20 achieving unicorn status—valuations…
Seoul’s 2024 Automation World Showcases Industrial Intelligence
From March 27 to March 29, 2024, Seoul’s Coex Hall will host Smart Factory + Automation World 2024, a major…
Robotics Driving Precision in Semiconductor Manufacturing
Semiconductor fabrication is a discipline defined by extreme precision, where each stage must meet demanding tolerances to ensure the performance…
Breaking Barriers in Mechanical Design Engineering
Mechanical design and engineering has long been a male-dominated profession, yet its core demands—curiosity, precision, and problem-solving—are qualities that transcend…
Ansys SimAI Brings AI-Driven Simulation to a Wider Audience
Ansys has introduced SimAI, a cloud-native, AI-powered simulation platform designed to make advanced engineering analysis accessible to both specialists and…
ABB and Psyonic Test Prosthetic Data for Robot Dexterity
While today’s robotics industry has made huge strides in replicating known movements, it still has a hard time when performing…