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 ...

Tech - The robot stood motionless in the middle of the factory floor - an expensive piece of equipment gathering dust. Why? Because programming took three weeks, ...

BOSTON & DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Realtime Robotics, the leader in collision-free autonomous motion planning for industrial robots, today announced the release of its new RapidPlan software, which ...

When Sofya Akhmametyeva (MSR ‘17) arrived at Northwestern Engineering’s Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program in 2015, her goal was straightforward. She wanted to apply machine learning to ...

Human-centered robotics strives to support interactions between humans and robotic systems by developing intuitive and responsive technologies based on characterizations of human needs. Human-centered ...

Industrial robotics is on track to be worth around $20 billion by 2020, but while it may have something in common with other categories of cutting-edge tech — innovative use of artificial intelligence ...

Tanay Choudhary (MSR '16) talks about his role at Vecna Robotics and how Northwestern's Master of Science in Robotics program prepared him for where he is today. Tanay Choudhary (MSR '16) is a ...

When it comes to methods of locomotion for robots, wheels are good for some things, while legs are better for others. Scientists are now working on a bot that combines the best of both worlds, with ...