Earlier this year, when a 22-year-old factory worker at a Volkswagen plant in Germany died after being crushed against a metal plate by an assembly machine that mistook him for a car part, most news ...

Isaac Asimov was the first to talk about robotics when he set out his famous laws. Before analysing the history of robotics, ...

With many words which are commonly used in everyday vocabulary, we are certain that we have a solid grasp of what they do and do not mean, but is this really true? Take the word ‘robot’ for example, ...

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It's one thing for mechatronics experts to cluster amongthemselves, sharing insights on their various disciplines. It's quiteanother for someone like Eric Gradman, a roboticist at a company ...