Data from the 2025 World Robot Conference show that China is the world's largest robot producer, with industrial robot output growing from 33,000 units in 2015 to 556,000 in 2024 and service robot ...

More than 800 people are working on a top-secret home robot project at Amazon — and at least a handful of them are worried it will be a monumental failure for the company. The “Vesta” robot project is ...

Two things have always fascinated Ben Hogan: the process of how things are made, and outer space. While considering his options for college, aerospace engineering seemed like the best of both worlds - ...

That was the question Nick Morales (MSR '23) asked himself in April when he and his classmates from Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program presented their robotics ...

We do not often think about the labor that goes into bringing our favorite fruits and vegetables to our table. For farmers, growing healthy crops involves repetitive tasks such as weeding and spraying ...

Josh Marino (MSR '15) is a Robotics Engineer for Intelligent Automation, Inc., a technology innovation company. Marino finds himself innovating on a daily basis, and in the process using key lessons ...

We've been hearing rumors for years now alleging that Amazon has a home robot project codenamed 'Vesta' in the works, one that may — based on the latest leak — still be planned despite rumors of ...

NASA will award a total of $2.7 million to eight advanced robotics projects, in an effort to push forward the frontiers of space exploration, agency officials announced Friday (Sept. 14). The projects ...

Facebook has lifted the curtain on its robotics research. On Monday, the company published a blog post detailing three of its robotics projects. Each focuses on finding ways for robots to teach ...

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Disney Imagineering, the company’s in-house research and development studio has revealed Project Kiwi, its in-development robotics platform. For over three years, the company has been working on a ...