Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

Engineers have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don't know. The technique involves quantifying the fuzziness of human language and using that measurement to tell robots when to ...

As workplace robots become more common in retail stores, hospitals, and warehouses, their human coworkers need to know how to use and reprogram them. Yet most people lack that kind of highly technical ...

Researchers demonstrate that robots can be designed to react to their environment and perform tasks by programming intelligence into their structure, with minimal electronics. (Nanowerk News) From ...

How do people like to interact with robots when navigating a crowded environment? And what algorithms should roboticists use to program robots to interact with humans? These are the questions that a ...

A year ago, Randy Barcus was in a bind. Worker retirements and sales had soared and Barcus needed another 50 workers to load the automated milling and drilling machines that make Graco's industrial ...

Boston Cleek (MSR '20) talks about his experience in Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program and his new job at PickNik Robotics. When Boston Cleek (MSR '20) applied to ...