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Autonomous sailboat competition tackles challenges of moving robotic boats on the water and avoiding collisions.

CSAIL project shows that robots picking items could be vastly improved through computer vision breakthroughs.

Katie Stebbins, a speaker at RoboBusiness 2018, urges employers, higher education, and governments to talk about population shifts and demographics and plan for workforce retraining so that employees are helped, not harmed, by robotics and automation.

Electronics manufacturing is changing because of transformative technologies including robotics, AI, and the cloud, finds IHS Markit. Physical automation is a top priority, but AI is just starting.

Researchers in Singapore have developed a robot that uses 3D image processing to precisely assemble an IKEA chair.

As an integrator, HighRes Biosolutions intimately knows its customers' needs, as the biopharmaceuticals industry looks to save money and speed testing with robots.

Many see the benefits of AI, but get nervous with AI that acts without human interaction, a new report suggests.

European robotics research institutions are world leaders, and Martin Haegele has spent his career helping industrial and service robot innovations reach commercialization.

Littler Mendelson's Workplace Policy Institute and Prime Policy Group have released recommendations about the incoming "TIDE" from automation. They have also formed the Emma Coalition and plan another workforce roundtable.

Advances in materials science such as self-healing materials could be useful for surgical, supply chain, and other bio-inspired robots, but they're still at an early stage of development.