Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers ...

As workplace robots become more common in retail stores, hospitals, and warehouses, their human coworkers need to know how to use and reprogram them. Yet most people lack that kind of highly technical ...

At Kingwood Middle School and Kingwood High School, students are getting a more hands-on learning experience with building ...

Vortex is an interactive robot toy which aims to be fun for children to play with, while teaching them to program. Currently looking for funding on Kickstarter, the Arduino-based bot comes ready ...

Writing Code for a Robot's Brain Tanay Choudhary (MSR '16) talks about his role at Vecna Robotics and how Northwestern's Master of Science in Robotics program prepared him for where he is today.

Root is a robot that smooths out that curve, allowing anyone who’s new to coding to make sense of the often-unintuitive nature of programming languages. Designed by the Wyss Institute at Harvard ...

Optional communication interface lets users can program robots without manufacturer-specific language knowledge – safely, quickly, and efficiently. STÄUBLI TEC-SYSTEMS is launching the uniVAL pi ...

Teaching by demonstration isn't going to replace traditional programming, because robots will still require some degree of common sense to function properly in our uncertain world.