Nitin J. Sanket, a professor at WPI, has developed small flying robots with his team that fit in the palm of a hand and use ...

Robots, the team argues, can mimic these abilities using a quantum magnetometer (which detects magnetic field direction).

Robots could soon be able to autonomously complete search and rescue missions, inspections, complex maintenance operations ...

A robot searching for workers trapped in a partially collapsed mine shaft must rapidly generate a map of the scene and ...

But while drones are becoming more common in search and rescue, Sanket and researchers elsewhere want to move beyond the manually operated individual robots being used today. A key next step is ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The San Jose McEnery Convention Center looked like a bomb had hit it. Amid collapsed walls and debris, arms and legs of survivors waved through the rubble. The body parts were ...

WORCESTER, Mass. — Don’t be fooled by the fog machine, spooky lights and fake bats: the robotics lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute lab isn’t hosting a Halloween party. Instead, it’s a testing ...

It's now actually not that unusual to see quadruped robots that have powered wheels for feet, allowing them to either walk or ...

For search and rescue, AI is not more accurate than humans, but it is far faster. Recent successes in applying computer vision and machine learning to drone imagery for rapidly determining building ...

A research team led by Dr. Lin Cao from the University of Sheffield's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has reimagined one of robotics' long-standing flaws as a breakthrough ...

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Don't be fooled by the fog machine, spooky lights and fake bats: the robotics lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute lab isn't hosting a Halloween party. Instead, it’s a ...