From disaster zones to underground tunnels, robots are increasingly being sent where humans cannot safely go. But many of ...

By reusing knowledge from previous tasks and applying it to new ones, the robot can generalize far more efficiently, which is ...

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train ...

Picture a robot capable of changing its shape on demand, squishing, bending, or stretching to perform various tasks like navigating tight spaces or retrieving objects. While this may sound like ...

Antibiotic resistance is turning routine infections into life threatening events, and the traditional pipeline for new drugs ...

University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers have constructed a robot that uses machine learning to fully automate a complicated microinjection process used in genetic research. In their ...

The microinjection robot detects embryos that are one-hundredth the size of a grain of rice, calculates a path, and automates the process. Credit: Andrew Alegria, University of Minnesota Twin Cities ...

Automation technology suppliers are integrating robot kinematics directly into PLCs, simplifying programming, reducing costs, ...

Some people think they can pull a fast one by “returning” something they’ve bought, but replacing the original with a knockoff and keeping the real deal. UPS’s return centers are using machine ...

Industrial robot adoption has reached a point of no return. Automated machinery has become an industry standard and will only become increasingly common as time goes on. As this trend continues, ...

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (04/26/2024) — University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers have constructed a robot that uses machine learning to fully automate a complicated microinjection process used in ...