A lamprey’s mouth has inspired a new suction device that can grip in air and underwater. The design aims to solve a ...

How do you get a robot to inspect a tank with high vertical walls? If the walls are made of certain kinds of metal, you just stick a magnet on it. But many large tanks utilized in the food & beverage ...

According to Pennsylvania State University's Asst. Prof. Long He, the mushroom-farming industry is currently experiencing a labor shortage. His team has thus set about addressing that problem, by ...

Fragile object: a clingfish-inspired suction cup lifts a vase underwater. (Courtesy: University of California, San Diego) By mimicking how a tiny fish clings to rocks and other objects, researchers in ...

When you think of badass underwater robots, a new creation from researchers at China’s Beihang University and Harvard University has to rank pretty darn high. What they have developed is a ...

Amazon's new robotic arm is capable of handling and sorting millions of unique items - a major milestone for the ecommerce giant - and a sign that it could one day replace a large number of its human ...

A NEW mega smart robot capable of working out the best way to pick up objects could soon replace human warehouse workers, its creators claim. The robot has suction pad attached to one arm and a ...

A cannister of oatmeal, a tube of chips, or a box of teabags—it’s all the same to this warehouse automaton. Developed by Ocado, the world’s largest online-only grocery retailer, the machine has been ...