From R2-D2 to Optimus Prime, Wall-E to The Iron Giant, robots have long captured our collective imaginations. In today’s world, their influence is far less limited to fictional settings; robotics are ...

Purdue University Colleges of Science, Engineering, and Agriculture together with the Purdue Office of Industry Partnerships and Purdue Polytechnic Institute proudly present Robotics Day, a ...

One of the most important courses in the curriculum for Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program is Embedded Systems in Robotics. This project-based course is offered to ...

Robotics Competitions Are Boosting STEM Enrollment Amid Declining Science Scores As standardized test results show a downturn in science scores ...

Robots have made significant strides in automation, but in dynamic, unstructured environments such as ...

Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot has been attracting plenty of attention following the company’s AI event on Friday. Two development versions of the Optimus bot were on show at Tesla Inc.’s TSLA AI Day ...

In crowded environments, more robots don’t always mean faster results—in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill.

With their ability to shapeshift and manipulate delicate objects, soft robots could work as medical implants, deliver drugs ...

Uncrewed cargo shipments to the International Space Station usually include critical supplies, science experiments and goodies such as hazelnut spread and ice cream for the astronauts aboard. But a ...

How do you stop robotic traffic jams? Researchers found that adding "noise" or randomness to robot paths optimizes swarm efficiency, proving that swarms don't need central AI to avoid gridlock.

Abhishek Patil (MSR '16) talks about robotics in construction and how his time in Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program prepared him to help develop cutting-edge ...