WiBotic is developing a wireless charging system that autonomously charges aerial, mobile and aquatic robots.

The process of getting robotics funding can be a major hurdle for startups, but a network of organizations in Odense, Denmark, has built a platform to make it easier.

YI Technology’s Erida tricopter drone can fly at speeds up to 75 mph and stay in the air for up to 40 minutes. Erida also is the first full carbon-fiber, tricopter drone featuring 4K video.

The long-awaited regulations for small commercial drones went into effect today. Here’s what you need to know.

A developer demos the Jibo Kitchen Assistant skill to show how the social robot can help you become a master chef.

How self-driving cars make life-and-death decisions is a major question that remains unanswered.

nuTonomy, founded by two researchers from MIT, began testing a free self-driving taxi service in a small business district in Singapore.

In 2015, the German machine vision industry achieved record sales of 2 billion euros – a rise of 9 percent compared to the previous year. Sales in the industry have more than doubled in ten years. The reason for the boom: Equipped with machine vision systems, machines and robots are learning to “see”. Within the […]

Flirtey and Domino’s are developing pizza delivery drones, saying deliveries to customer homes in Auckland, New Zealand could begin later in 2016.

In anticipation of the need for LiDAR devices in cars with assisted steering and other self-driving technologies, both Velodyne and Quarnergy received funding. Quanergy raised $90 million and Velodyne got $150 million. As can be seen in the chart provided by Frost & Sullivan, LiDARs will play a big role in all phases of the emergence…

The San Francisco 49ers are using three Mobile Virtual Player (MVP) robots in practice for both offensive and defensive drills to cut down on player injuries.

If Jibo fails, it won’t be because of shipping delays or cancellation of international orders. It’ll be because it didn’t live up to the hype it promised at the start.

Autonomous vehicles shouldn’t just rely on lidar, says David Bruemmer, CEO of 5D Robotics, which just acquired partner Time Domain. Can 5D’s software and sensor expertise and Time Domain’s ultrawideband modules blaze a new path for self-driving cars?

Switzerland’s national postal service, Swiss Post, will in September 2016 start testing Starship Technologies delivery robots. If all goes well, Swiss Post said it could officially start using delivery robots in as early as three years.

Universal Robots, the Danish pioneer of human-robot collaboration, will launch Universal Robots+, a showroom of plug and play application solutions offering a new level of simplicity for companies that want to hit the ground running with UR robot installations.

CNN just inaugurated their new drone division. So have many other news organizations. Network providers are also setting up drone operations for a variety of purposes. FAA’s new regulations Part 107 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) clarifies how media are allowed to operate drones, and make it easier for smaller news teams and production…

SolidEnergy Systems has developed a battery that replace the graphite anode with a high-energy lithium-metal foil that holds more ions to provide more energy.

Watch this sushi robot make nigiri, a traditional type of sushi in which a piece of raw fish sits on rice.

Universal Robots, the Danish pioneer of human-robot collaboration, launches Universal Robots+, a showroom of plug & play application solutions offering a new level of simplicity for companies that want to hit the ground running when installing their next UR robot application. Odense, Denmark, June 24, 2016:  The International Manufacturing Technology Show 2016 in Chicago will […]

Uber announced a $300 million deal with Volvo, the launch of a self-driving car service in Pittsburgh, and the acquisition self-driving truck startup Otto.

NASA’s Space Robotics Challenge offers a $1 million prize purse for teams that program a virtual Robonaut 5 robot through a series of complex tasks in a simulated Mars habitat.

Bringing a complex product to market is an intensive process fraught with problems. Getting hardware ready for manufacturing is often the easy part; it's the software and regulatory compliance that's often the most challenging. Here are three examples: Ford Motor Co., Velodyne LiDAR and Jibo. Ford Motor Co. Ford announced plans to begin delivering fully…