The robotic arm could help farmers harvest crops even in increasingly challenging conditions, such as rising temperatures.

While so far robots have predominantly been deployed individually, as teams, they can tackle a wider range of complex ...

When a robotic arm touches a branch, the resulting sound waves travel down the robotic arm until they encounter the array of contact microphones. Tiny differences in sound wave properties (such as ...

The robots use sound to lift and move things without touching them. They can work alone or together to carry objects.

Rosin: That is the voice of Roz from the animated film The Wild Robot, up for three Oscars this weekend, including for Best Sound. Roz, who’s voiced by Lupita Nyong’o, is a helper robot: a ...

comes Sound Heroes, a Bluetooth speaker in the shape of a humanoid robot. Apparently there are plenty who would place this one in the "cool" camp as the campaign reached its goal in only four minutes.

So today when our robot moves it emits a sound so it doesn’t surprise people, and it uses light to indicate when people get too close. The conversation has been edited for clarity and length. hide ...