A Shanghai-based service robotics firm has introduced XMAN-R1, a humanoid service robot designed to enhance automation in hospitality and other industries. Keenon Robotics’ XMAN-R1 can take ...

The breakthrough slip-prevention method allows robots to predict when an object might slip – and adapt their movements in ...

The robot offers a 10-kg payload and 1200 mm reach and can perform a broad range of material handling, machine tending, packaging or light assembly tasks. Function-specific tooling and accessories are ...

As we look to the future of robotics and automation, systems like Open-TeleVision challenge us to reconsider the role of human intelligence in technological advancement.

While the advent of robotic systems that can complete household chores has been widely anticipated, those commercially ...

Designing a human-inspired hand that can bend backward to pick up a broad range of objects and detach itself to crawl over to another firmly plants it inside the uncanny valley.

Unlike human hands, the robotic counterpart's fingers can bend in both directions, allowing it to use some fingers for grasping objects and the others to act like legs and move the objects.