Health & Medical

Although Amazon Alexa and Google Home have been successful, Jibo's struggles illustrate the challenges facing social robots. Will smart speakers and appliances lead to other instances of robotics and artificial intelligence in homes?

Harmonic gears offer advantages over conventional components for high-performance automation and increasing factory productivity. Other applications include medical and mobile robots.

Consolidation continues in the surgical robot space, and aerial drone makers have one of those good news, bad news moments.

Since 2011, Dallas-based RoboKind has created a range of novel robots designed to help children with autism spectrum disorders develop essential skills, including STEM.

The new FLA series of actuators will be on display at Harmonic Drive's booth at RoboBusiness in Silicon Valley this week.

New GPU chipsets and developer's kits focus AI attention on industrial robots, medical imaging.

Training employees on complex processes in manufacturing and assembly is a good use case for augmented reality and virtual reality. Here are some innovative AR/VR providers.

Healthcare applications are using 3D printers to produce medical devices, prototypes, and components to save patients and doctors money and time.

The Empower prosthesis by Ottobock helps its wearer regain lost freedom of movement -- using a powerful brushless motor that releases the energy of a calf muscle at every step.

World's first compact folding arm technology in the N6 provides the optimum in motion and workspace efficiency, says Epson.