In a move that inches us just a little closer to the singularity, engineers have developed robots that can grow, self-repair, and morph by absorbing parts from other robots. They can also help their ...

Sam Kriegman, a professor at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, is something of a local celebrity. He can often be found on television shows explaining the wonders of his new invention – ...

In decades past, the rigid, mechanical movements of traditional robots were confined to segregated sectors in factories. Their function was fixed, and their interactions were limited. Enter the cobot ...

The term “robot” suggests a human-like machine—a walking, talking automaton. Robotics is a much broader technology: Assembly robots in factories, warehouse workers, or surgical robots in operating ...

A team led by Northwestern University’s Sam Kriegman built an AI system that designed a walking robot from scratch in seconds, then manufactured the result and watched it move across a lab bench. The ...

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Different types of robots with greater precision and mobility are beginning to be deployed in semiconductor manufacturing, where they are proving both reliable and cost-efficient. Static robots have ...