Stacking an object on top of another object is a straightforward task for most people. But even the most complex robots struggle to handle more than one such task at a time. Stacking requires a range ...

Japan has the oldest population in the world, and that’s causing an acute labor shortage. With almost a third of the population aged 65 and above, finding workers can be a challenge. Increasingly, ...

Robot manufacturer Agility has built a human-like robot called Digit that can load boxes onto a truck — and the company is selling it for a cool $250,000. The company announced a $20 million round of ...

"Final Report will add the analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on this industry." Including market segmentation by kinds, applications, and countries, the "Joint Stacking Robots Market" research study ...

Cranston, R.I. — Yushin America Inc. developed a space-saving palletizing robot that it says solves problems related to end-of-line labor shortages at distribution sites. The PA robot series handles ...

A Walmart employee waits for the Alphabot system to expel carts filled with customers' online orders at one of the retailer's micro-fulfillment centers. (Photo by Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via ...

With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and stay, Johns Hopkins University computer scientists showed a robot how to teach itself several new tricks, including stacking blocks.

A new experiment shows snail-inspired swarm robots stacking and adapting to move objects across gaps without fixed structures.