A new tool for predicting a person's movement trajectory may help humans and robots work together in close proximity. In 2018, researchers at MIT and the auto manufacturer BMW were testing ways in ...

Though we're not yet at the point where robots can take fully take over warehouse jobs, technology is rapidly developing toward that end goal. One big issue surrounding robots in these jobs is their ...

Currently the world is rapidly developing robotic and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. These technologies offer enormous potential benefits, yet there are also drawbacks and dangers. Using ...

Robots are reliable in industrial settings, where recognizable objects appear at predictable times in familiar circumstances. But life at home is messy. Put a robot in a house, where it must navigate ...

A new vision algorithm would let robots more easily function in cluttered homes. To make home-helper robots that can quickly navigate unpredictable and disordered spaces, University of Michigan ...

Mobile robot algorithms and coordination have emerged as a central discipline in robotics research, combining computational theory, distributed algorithms, and systems engineering. These algorithms ...

Textbooks that provide a broad algorithmic perspective on the mechanics and dynamics of robots almost unfailingly serve students at the graduate level. Introduction to Autonomous Robots offers a ...

China’s e-commerce warehouses shipped more than 83 billion parcels in 2020, a nearly 23-fold increase from a decade ago. This online-shopping boom creates massive logistics problems for retailers such ...

Kelly Stirman (@kstirman) is the VP of Strategy at MongoDB. Kelly works closely with customers, partners and the open-source community to articulate how MongoDB is quickly becoming the world's most ...

Air pollution is a global problem, but scientists are investigating new materials that could help clean it up. AP Photo/Sergei Grits Many human activities release pollutants into the air, water and ...

Researchers have developed new techniques for robots or computer programs to learn how to perform tasks by interacting with a human instructor. Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the ...