A new robot is being developed to efficiently pick raspberries. The robot uses machine learning techniques to identify "supermarket ripe" raspberries via its cameras and sensors. The developers say it ...

As labor shortages make human pickers scarce and expensive, farms are turning to bots like this one to be the new generation of farm workers. The robot will begin pilot testing with strawberry farmers ...

Planning on finding a new job for 2018? You can cross “tomato picker” off the list now that a new tomato-harvesting robot has made its debut at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan.

We're giving this robot with mechanical task arm a Best of CES Award. The only question left is, how soon can we get one? David Watsky Managing Editor / Home and Kitchen David lives in Brooklyn where ...

Sorting and organizing may not always be the most difficult tasks, but they can certainly get tedious. And while they may seem like prime examples of something we might like robots to do for us, ...

The Beetl is an autonomous robot that locates dog poop, rolls over to it, and picks it up. According to Oddity Mail, the Beetl is equipped with a front camera and computer vision to help it navigate ...

When Tesla first announced plans to launch a humanoid robot nicknamed “Optimus” at the Tesla AI Day in August 2021, many didn’t take it seriously. After all, the presentation started with an actual ...

There have been many advances in vision-language models (VLM) that can match natural language queries to objects in a visual scene. And researchers are experimenting with how these models can be ...

Lockpicking is more of an art than a science: it’s probably 10% knowledge and 90% feeling. Only practice will teach you how much torque to apply to the cylinder, how to sense when you’ve pushed a pin ...

There are times where a pen is just a writing utensil, but there are other times when it can represent much more. A hackathon held earlier this fall by Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in ...

A robot with a pair of grippers on its arms can untangle long, knotted cables. The technology could be used to fit electrical cables in aircraft or offer household assistance to older people, but at ...

Sunday Robotics dropped a new video of their robot Memo in action performing pick-and-place actions with various objects.