It sounds like something from a sci-fi film - but some scientists believe this clever new tech could help alleviate strains ...

We've seen robot pharmacists before. Here's a robot lab technician whose speed might make "CSI" plots a little more believable. Developed by automation giant Yaskawa and Japan's National Institute of ...

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 ...

Mahoro, a humanoid robot developed in Japan, can perform a variety of lab tasks by working with scanned 3D models of its surroundings. Mahoro, a humanoid robot developed in Japan, can perform a ...

Czech playwright Karel Capek coined the word “robot” in his seminal 1920 work, “Rossum’s Universal Robots.” In this dark piece of sci-fi, the term described flesh-and-blood laborers made from organic ...

Up until recently, this work has mostly been evaluated in the lab. But last year, researchers deployed the assistive feeding ...