PROVO, Utah — For BYU graduate student Curtis Johnson, a simple quest guided him to create a robot with a novel approach: What if robots were more helpful? Johnson and his mentors at the BYU Robotics ...

Imagine a rubber band that turns into a steel cable on command. Now imagine it’s inside a robot. That’s the basic trick of a ...

Using signals from a sensor placed on the human's arm, the robot can lift at the same time and intensity of the human, and then release the object when the human's muscle relaxes. (Joseph DelPreto / ...

It’s time to take a gander at yet another new exoskeleton, usually meaning a deluge of references to Aliens or Edge of Tomorrow or Avatar. But instead of thinking about how this updated prototype, the ...

Veterans of the companies that developed the Segway and the Roomba have launched a new venture called Harvest Automation to develop and sell a robot for agricultural and nursery use. “We are a ...

A robot dog has been sent into a potentially hazardous area of a nuclear power site to switch back on a mothballed piece of equipment. The four-legged machine - called Spot - reactivated a crane ...

A simulation of the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo - one of the oldest waste stores and one of the highest hazard facilities on the UK's Sellafield site - is making it safer to upgrade robots handling waste ...

Ulm-Einsingen – based Zwick started the manufacture of testing machines back in 1938 and grew, in the ensuing decades, to become one of the world’s leading manufacturers of machines for materials ...