Abstract: To enrich legged robots with fast energy-efficient mobility on even terrain, wheeled-legged robots have emerged as a valued robot form in robotics research. This paper describes the complete ...

Abstract: The performance of optimization-based robot motion planning algorithms is highly dependent on the initial solutions, commonly obtained by running a sampling-based planner to obtain a ...

Manufacturers often struggle to automate tasks where there’s too much variation or complexity for traditional robots. Universal Robots and Inbolt solve this by equipping cobots with human-like vision ...

With more than 750,000 robots deployed across our network, Amazon has built and scaled the world's largest fleet of industrial robotics. We currently have advanced technologies supporting employees as ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson. While the U.S. celebrates its dominance in artificial-intelligence software, China is quietly ...

YouTuber Cody ‘WhistlinDiesel’ Detwiler put an $80,000 humanoid robot named Ben through an intense series of “durability tests,” ultimately destroying it in the process. The YouTuber’s new video ...

A little red robot that’s one-tenth the size of a car and can travel up to 20 miles per hour could be the future of automated deliveries at DoorDash. Dot, an electric, street-friendly robot, said ...

On Tuesday, DoorDash unveiled Dot, a small robot it built in-house that can autonomously drive on roads, bike lanes, and sidewalks to deliver food and small packages at speeds up to 20 miles per hour.

The hype around delivery robots has fizzled, but DoorDash is still determined to launch Dot, an adorable red bot. It can ride on roads and in bike lanes, where it will face daunting challenges. When ...

Construction robots have been around for a while, automating challenging tasks on job sites. The new kid on this block is called Charlotte, and it's billed as being autonomously capable of building a ...