TOKYO (Reuters) – With their stadium devoid of fans due to coronavirus restrictions, Japanese baseball team Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks have come up with an imaginative replacement: dancing robots. Before their most recent Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) game ag... More »
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Robots in Singapore have completed a task many humans dread – assembling flat-packed IKEA furniture. Sifting through pages of instructions and a jumble of screws and bolts to build the low-cost Swedish furniture may soon be a thing of the... More »
While Alpine skiers fought high winds at the Pyeongchang Games on Monday, there were no such problems for robots competing in their own "Olympics" ski challenge. More »
FILE PHOTO: A job seeker departs the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. career fair held by the New York State department of Labor in New York, April 12, 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson COLUMBUS, Ind. (Reuters) – When Sandy Vierling took a job at a new robot-packed factor... More »
FILE PHOTO: Doctors and medical staff work during knee prosthesis surgery in an operation room at the hospital of the Canton of Nidwalden in Stans, Switzerland October 27, 2011. Picture taken October 27, 2011. REUTERS/Michael Buholzer/File Photo The world’s to... More »
Catalan nanotechnology engineer Sergi Santos holds the head of Samantha, a sex doll packed with artificial intelligence providing her the capability to respond to different scenarios and verbal stimulus, in his house in Rubi, north of Barcelona, Spain, March 3... More »
A robot is seen on Mount Etna, Italy, July 2, 2017. Picture taken July 2, 2017. REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello A robot wheels across a rocky, windswept landscape that looks like the surface of some distant planet from a science fiction film. But it is not in outer... More »
An unmanned undersea robot, designed to go underwater below sport diver depth, the Guardian LF1 by Robots in Service of the Environment (RSE) approaches an invasive lionfish before stunning and collecting it in a marine enclosure in Bermuda on April 18, 2017. ... More »
A model demonstrates Toyota Motor Corp’s rehabilitation robot Welwalk WW-1000, designed to aid in the rehabilitation of individuals with lower limb paralysis, in Tokyo, Japan April 12, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Japanese automakers are looking beyond the industr... More »
A model demonstrates Toyota Motor Corp’s rehabilitation robot Welwalk WW-1000, designed to aid in the rehabilitation of individuals with lower limb paralysis, in Tokyo, Japan April 12, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Toyota Motor Corp said it will commercialize rehab... More »
Harrison, 5, who is autistic, plays with Kaspar, a child-sized humanoid robot developed at the University of Hertfordshire to interact and help improve the lives of children with autism, in Stevenage, Britain January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Matthew Stock “This is ni... More »
People walk past a LG Electronics logo during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 25, 2016. REUTERS/Albert Gea/File Photo South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc said on Sunday it will aggressively invest in robots, seeking to capitalize on advanc... More »
By Aradhana Aravindan and Marius Zaharia | SINGAPORE SINGAPORE Sherine Toh says her best days at work are when none of the 600-or-so staff at Singapore’s Tung Lok Restaurants (TGLK.SI) quits, though such days are rare. The Chinese restaurant group is one of th... More »
CHICAGO Even though many doctors see need for improvement, surgical robots are poised for big gains in operating rooms around the world. Within five years, one in three U.S. surgeries – more than double current levels – is expected to be performed with robotic... More »
MUNICH, Germany Robots that work as assistants alongside people are set to upend the world of industrial robotics by putting automation within reach of many small and medium-sized companies for the first time, industry players said this week. Collaborative rob... More »
DUESSELDORF, Germany Technology developed by Epson (6724.T) that enables robots to perform precise tasks, such as putting a key into a keyhole and turning it with just the right amount of force, is set to open up new markets for the printers, projectors and ro... More »
NEW YORK For most of its 100-year history, when Boeing turned out more planes, employment soared and the Seattle-area economy prospered. When the rate of production fell, layoffs followed and the local economy crashed. The cycle was so predictable that Boeing ... More »
DALIAN, China In a cavernous showroom on the outskirts of this port city in northeastern China, softly whirring lathes and svelte robot arms represent Dalian Machine Tools Group’s (DMTG) vision of an automated future for Chinese manufacturing. On closer inspec... More »
