Robot Invasion Hit a Bump in 2023 as North American Economy Cooled February 13, 2024 By Timothy Aeppel North American companies ordered about a third fewer robots last year as worries about a slowing economy and higher interest...
Increasingly Popular Industrial Robots Are Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks, Report Warns August 6, 2020 By Daniele Lepido Industrial robots are now being used to assemble everything from airplanes to smartphones, using human-like arms to mechanically repeat the...
2018 Was Big Year for Robot Employment February 28, 2019 U.S. companies installed more robots last year than ever before, as cheaper and more flexible machines put them within reach...
Making Working with Robots Safe for Humans February 28, 2019 By Pavel Alpeyev Veo Robotics Inc., a startup developing sensor technology that lets industrial robots work safely side-by-side with humans, closed a funding...
Robot Detects Spill on Aisle 3 But Human Cleans It Up January 23, 2019 By Matt O'Brien A wheeled robot named Marty is rolling into nearly 500 grocery stores to alert employees if it encounters spilled granola,...
How One German Company Is Making Workplace Robots Safer for Humans September 18, 2017 By Oliver Sachgau Two years ago, a robot crushed a 22-year-old man to death at a Volkswagen AG factory in Germany after the...
Popular Robots Appear Dangerously Easy to Hack, Researchers Say August 22, 2017 By Jeremy Kahn Some of the most popular industrial and consumer robots are dangerously easy to hack and could be turned into bugging...
6 Years After Fukushima Disaster, Robots Continue Search for Radioactive Fuel February 24, 2017 By Emi Urabe and Stephen Stapczynski The latest robot seeking to find the 600 tons of nuclear fuel and debris that melted down six years ago...
Why Robots Replacing Humans at Work Is More Science Fiction Than Fact February 19, 2016 By Carolynn Look Ever since robots emerged from the pages of science-fiction novels into the real world, humans have feared being usurped in...
Cobots: Making It Safe for Humans, Robots to Work Side-by-Side August 25, 2015 By Olivia Solon In June this year a robot crushed a man to death in a Volkswagen factory in Germany. The 22-year-old maintenance...