Robotics & Automation

The economics of warehouse automation come from eliminating travel time, not headcount. Understanding that explains which deployments succeed and which…

Robots work alongside people, and safety is not a feature to add later — it is a fundamental design requirement…

Training robots in the real world is slow, expensive, and risky, and simulation lets robots learn at scale in virtual…

Collaborative robots, or cobots, are designed to work alongside people rather than replace them, and they are opening up automation…

A robot that cannot sense its surroundings cannot act safely or effectively, and perception — using sensors to understand the…

A robot that can only move, or only manipulate, is limited, and mobile manipulators — robots that combine movement with…

Picking up and manipulating objects is deceptively hard for robots — objects vary in shape, weight, and fragility — and…

Warehouses are being transformed by robots, and warehouse automation is moving beyond the hype to real value, as robots handle…

The human form is a compromise evolved for a general-purpose organism. Copying it in a machine inherits the compromises without…