Researchers are giving autonomous robots the ability to work together to explore and map the interior of buildings. Beyond soldiers, the capability could also help firefighters and other first ...

Well, few except for Matic. A relatively new venture founded by Navneet Dalal, an ex-Google research scientist, Matic, formerly known as Matician, is developing robots that can navigate homes to ...

Known for an array of intelligent machines from home helpers to military aides, iRobot has just announced an upgrade to its PackBot with the addition of a Mapping Kit.

To make this information useful to human observers, a robot must then convert the numbers from that data back into something visual, rendering a map and a model of its immediate surroundings.

A recent competition held in Pittsburgh seemed like an episode of BattleBots or Robot Wars. Eleven teams built several robots each to navigate underground environments in a timed competition. But this ...

Tactile sensor gives robots new capabilities GelSight technology lets robots gauge objects' hardness and manipulate small tools Date: June 5, 2017 ...

The NERVE Center’s Movement Assessment and Performance (MAP) Labs is used to evaluate the movement of humans, robots, and human-robot systems. Lab equipment includes a Motek M-Gait instrumented ...

Amazon’s $1.7 billion purchase of iRobot last year highlights just how valuable this indoor map data is perceived to be. iRobot, whose more recent robot vacuums capture detailed layouts of the ...

All processing happens on the robot (on hardware "equivalent to an iPhone 6," Dalal says), and mapping and telemetry data is saved locally, not in the cloud, unless users opt in to sharing.