With RoboBallet, the complexity of computation also grew with the complexity of the system, but at a far slower rate. (The ...

Amazon has been using robots to manage and automate their warehouses for years. Here’s a short feature on their current robot, Hercules. This is absolutely Amazon tooting their own horn, but if you ...

Every week 2 million packages enter and exit Amazon’s sorting facility in Otay Mesa. Within hours, they’re scanned, sorted by ZIP code, routed for delivery and loaded onto pallets where they’ll be ...

What is a robot? Well, it doesn't always look like a human. In fact, different roboticists have different definitions. But most agree that a robot needs to be a physical machine that can sense the ...

SALEM, Ore. — In an office park opposite an Amazon warehouse, the robots are at work. A trio of six-foot-tall machines with ostrichlike legs and two jointed arms work in shifts, walking off a charging ...

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For a generation of scientists raised watching Star Wars, there’s a disappointing lack of C-3PO-like droids wandering around our cities and homes. Where are the humanoid robots fuelled with common ...

MicroFactory has more than 100 preorders for its general-purpose tabletop robotic factory, which it hopes to start shipping in two months.

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