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This factory robot can be trusted not to kill its human coworkers Sami Haddadin once attached a knife to a robot manipulator and programmed it to impale his arm. No, it wasn’t a daredevil stunt. He was demonstrating how a new force-sensing control...

Like tigers at the zoo, and potentially as unpredictable and dangerous, robots have traditionally been kept in cages. For protection, workers were kept on the outside looking in. In the past couple of years, a new kind of robot has done away with...

    Small and medium shops and factories (SMEs) are an untapped marketplace for robotics but direly in need of automation to remain competitive in this global economy. Two new start up companies: Rethink Robotics and Universal Robots have...

It is certainly a very French application for a robot, but the intimate gesture by the $16,000, two-foot robot, now being used in academic research labs and robotic soccer leagues, also reflects a significant shift. Until recently, most robots were...

Computational approaches for creating machines at scale: An interview with Daniela Rus. Daniela Rus is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at...