Robots are becoming increasingly integrated into everyday environments—from homes and hospitals to factories and farms.

A robot that senses when a human is about to smile and simultaneously responds with one of its own could represent a big step towards developing robots with enhanced communication skills more ...

The robot initiates the seek-and-pluck process by pinging the target object's RF tag for a sense of its whereabouts. "It starts by using RF to focus the attention of vision," says Adib.

Sensors at their wrists measure forces and torque to give robots a sense of touch, and thanks to a coordinated effort by ATI Industrial Automation and Staubli Robotics, ATI’s Networkable Force/ Torque ...

The robots' outer "skin" is made with a stretchy plastic called Ecoflex and a novel graphite paste developed by the team, with tiny magnets embedded at either end of the body which measures around ...

Amazon has just unveiled its newest warehouse robot called Vulcan, which has a “sense of touch”. Designed to gently stow items using pressure-sensitive gripping and artificial intelligence (AI), ...

Farmers might be able to get help tending and harvesting crops using a new sensing technology from Carnegie Mellon University ...

Evans, who lives in Los Altos, Calif., is using his finger to operate a computer interface that controls the robot, which has the ability to feel its way through tasks with a sense of touch.

By building a creepy looking robot guy with a "human" sense of touch, of course. Created by scientists at Stanford University, the humanoid robot, named OceanOneK, just wrapped up another ...

Amazon says its new warehouse robot, unveiled this morning, is its first with a sense of touch. Watch it pick, move, and stow items in these video highlights from the company, from Spokane, Wash ...

The new robot arm, with a rudimentary sense of touch equipped, can reach around and pick out a desired object by touch alone. A sense of touch in robots has been a steadily developing goal.

A robot that senses hidden objects System uses penetrative radio frequency to pinpoint items, even when they're hidden from view Date: April 1, 2021 Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...