New technologies are optimizing modern offices for better collaboration, productivity, energy efficiency, employee health, and, believe it or not, cleanliness. And robot vacuums are a great example.

Today’s engineers are developing robots with soft skin features, creating new possibilities in the collaborative human-robot workspace. Robots are usually hard-headed—not just because their ...

Moving an object from one location to another—picking and placing—is an ideal application for industrial robots due to the robots’ repeatability, throughput and favorable return on investment. It is ...