Scientists achieve major robotics milestone as robot learns 1,000 different physical tasks in single day, potentially transforming manufacturing, healthcare and home robotics.

Opentrons, a leader in lab automation, announces the launch of its Opentrons Flex robot, a new generation of affordable and easy-to-program liquid-handling lab robots designed to level the playing field for labs of all sizes and bring advanced lab ...

Suspended on a cable fixed between two trees in front of the Engineering Gateway building on UC Irvine’s campus hangs the RaccoonBot. And well, he’s just adorable. “The ‘cute factor’ wasn’t just a design choice — it was a strategic one ...

Moving from demo floors to real-world duty to assist humans, India’s rising ‘robot dogs’ are gearing up to leave labs behind and stride into factories

It is not hard to find popular depictions of robots in the future. What comes to my mind is Rosie the robot maid from the animated comic “The Jetsons.” Ever faithful and dependable, she is as much a part of the Jetson family as any human relative.

At CES 2026, Boston Dynamics and Hyundai unveiled Atlas, marking the humanoid robot’s first public appearance outside the lab.

Mobile and autonomous YuMi® laboratory robot will be designed to work alongside medical staff and lab workers New robotics technologies will be developed in ABB's first global healthcare research hub at Texas Medical Center (TMC) Innovation Institute in Houston Global market estimated to reach nearly 60,000 non-surgical medical robots by 2025, almost quadrupling since 2018

Lisa Bates, a medical technologist see seen through the window of a PCR analysis machine in the PCR testing lab at Quest Diagnostics on February 9, 2022 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The lab is capable of processing up to 3700 tests per day. Photo by Jon ...