PAL Robotics has released a new video of its Kangaroo humanoid robot, demonstrating capabilities beyond balance and walking. The one-and-a-half-minute video highlights the Barcelona-based company’s ...

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A simulation of the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo - one of the oldest waste stores and one of the highest hazard facilities on the UK's Sellafield site - is making it safer to upgrade robots handling waste ...

Truck loading and unloading is a task ripe for automation because it is strenuous and happens in all kinds of weather. However, competition is stiff. Amazon.com Inc. has acquired Rightbot Technologies ...

Veterans of the companies that developed the Segway and the Roomba have launched a new venture called Harvest Automation to develop and sell a robot for agricultural and nursery use. “We are a ...

A robot dog has been sent into a potentially hazardous area of a nuclear power site to switch back on a mothballed piece of equipment. The four-legged machine - called Spot - reactivated a crane ...