Narwal is turning the humble robot vacuum into something closer to a roaming home assistant, using on-board artificial ...

Researchers worldwide have been working hard to give robots the ability to better sense the environment around them. Before robots can work side-by-side with humans, they have to be able to sense ...

In recent years, robots have gained artificial vision, touch, and even smell. "Researchers have been giving robots human-like perception," says MIT Associate Professor Fadel Adib. In a new paper, Adib ...

Narwal is using CES 2026 to introduce its new flagship robot vacuum and mop, the Flow 2, positioning it as a step forward not ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new tactile sensing system that allows quadrupedal robots to carry loose, unsecured cylindrical objects on their backs without the cargo ...

Researchers have compiled a dataset that captures the detailed behavior of a robotic system physically pushing hundreds of different objects. Using the dataset -- the largest and most diverse of its ...

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Vision technology is shifting from image capture to object recognition and tracking. Robots with advanced 3D capability can differentiate objects, perceive human form. How autonomous robots are ...