Robots developed by the Toyota Motor Corporation will assist spectators in a range of tasks. The Tokyo 2020 Robot Project leader describes the Olympics as a unique opportunity to showcase Japanese ...

The Roombas in question were not commercially available — they were development robots given to testers. However, several researchers have uncovered privacy issues with robot vacuums produced by ...

Dorr heads up a research team at San Francisco-based RethinkX, a think-tank that analyzes disruptive technology. The team examined how technology has influenced society through human history, The ...

As Dr. Hai Nguyen entered the operating room last week, he couldn't shake the feeling of performing in front of an audience. Watching him from the the other side of the glass were specialists, staff ...

Two ultraviolet germicidal irradiation robots - one funded by the RCH Foundation - will be used to deep-clean and disinfect “hot spots” in the hospital to kill pathogens, including the SARS-CoV-2 ...

Each new robot represents the loss of 1.6 manufacturing jobs on average. Robots are estimated to replace about 20 million manufacturing jobs by 2030, according to a new report. The global stock of ...

As automation encroaches further into our daily lives, the rise of robots threatens to eliminate 20 million manufacturing jobs by 2030 — and they will also soon start to shake up the services sector.

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, have developed an automated diving robot that can detect and retrive marine litter from the sea.