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After a long day at work, it feels great plopping down onto a sofa, leaning back, and resting. It’s also the best time to enjoy a snack or a cold beverage, but no one wants to waste energy getting ...

Apple Inc. is reportedly planning to enter the home robotics market as part of plans to introduce a range of new devices in the coming years as the once-great innovator continues to fall behind in ...

Apple is ramping up its artificial intelligence strategy with a bold entry into home robotics and smart devices, aiming to bring a lifelike 'tabletop robot' to consumers by 2027, according to industry ...

A robot with wings that move like a hawk’s can fly more stably and nimbly than other flying robots – and it uses less power, extending flight time. Enrico Ajanic at the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

Three South African schools have earned top global honours in Inspired’s international robotics competition, showcasing ...

In 1921, Czech playwright Karel Čapek and his brother Josef invented the word “robot” in a sci-fi play called R.U.R. (short for Rossum’s Universal Robots). As Even Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum points out ...

Editor's take: Researchers from the City University of Hong Kong have developed a special type of spray that can give objects magnetic properties. Through the use of an external magnetic field, the ...

Carson Bruns is working to lend chemists a hand—literally—by bringing collaborative robots into chemical wet labs. Bruns, an assistant professor in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical ...