Your average 3D printer is just a nozzle shooting out hot  plastic while being moved around by a precise robotic mechanism.

In 2020, for instance, researchers at the University of Maryland were able to record audio using a "laser-based navigation system" that vacuum robots use to determine where objects are.

Walgreens will be expanding its use of prescription-filling robots, CNBC reports. The pharmacy chain began using micro-fulfillment centers in 2021 before pausing the program in 2023 to focus on ...

It's primarily tasked with reaching items stored low that require a human to bend down or items stored up high that require an employee to use a stepladder. The rise of robots in traditionally ...

What you wouldn’t expect to find are tiny, automated robots (each called a CAR) that move around a track in futuristic fashion to carry blood and other samples so that diagnostic test results ...

The policy started in 2019, when Tesla announced that customers could lease its mass-market Model 3 sedans but would have to return them, at the end of the lease, for use in Tesla's planned ...

Chungin “Roy” Lee stepped onto Columbia University’s campus this past fall and, by his own admission, proceeded to use generative ... all of the learning to a robot, he said, “It’s ...

The ability to remotely control robots in real-time, also known as teleoperation, could be useful for a broad range of real-world applications. In recent years, some engineers have been trying to ...

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