Meet Sparrow, Cardinal and Proteus. They’re the robots that, step by step, are replacing human workers in the company’s ...

Humanoid robots may get all the headlines, but they’re usually not the right fit to get a particular job done. These robotics and automation honorees trade faces for functionality, applying ...

Abstract: Model-based control faces fundamental challenges in partially-observable environments due to unmodeled obstacles. We propose an online learning and optimization method to identify and avoid ...

Introduction: Industrial automation is profoundly transforming the labor market, yet it may also impose hidden costs beyond economic outcomes. In particular, heightened labor market competition caused ...

Abstract: Model predictive control (MPC) has become increasingly popular for the control of robot manipulators due to its improved performance compared to instantaneous control approaches. However, ...

Mark is a tech journalist specializing in AI, FinTech, CleanTech, and Cybersecurity. He graduated with honors from the Ryerson School of Journalism and studied under… Robots are going viral. Global ...

The word "robotics" might sound modern, but its origins are surprisingly old. The term “robot” first showed up in a 1920 play called R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) by Czech writer Karel Čapek. In ...