A new study has found that a robot’s feedback during a collaborative task can influence the feeling of closeness between the human participants. The research, published in Computers in Human Behavior, ...

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Amazon has spent years automating its warehouses with robots. Its mechanical workforce is more than one million strong, rivaling the size of its human workforce of some 1.56 million people. Robots, in ...

Two machines resembling robotic vacuum cleaners sped around a ring colliding, shooting sparks and catching fire, as Iranian engineering students watched from behind plexiglass. The dramatic clash was ...

Bengaluru: Intuitive Surgical on Tuesday reported better-than-expected third-quarter profit and revenue, driven by growing demand for its surgical robots used in minimally invasive procedures. Shares ...