Three years ago, we first heard about GelSight – an experimental new system for imaging microscopic objects. At the time, its suggested applications were in fields such as aerospace, forensics, ...

Robotics companies building enabling systems like sensors and LiDAR attracted $1.6 billion in 2025, as every robot needs vision capabilities. Medical robotics shows the clearest path from startup to ...

LONDON, Nov. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Machine vision, force sensing and sensor fusion: Enabling technologies for collaborative robots, advanced mobile robotics and ...

A new sensor gives robots a human-like sense of touch, helping them handle objects safely while improving wearables and ...

It's National Robotics Week, and robots are quickly moving into everyday spaces! But the big question now isn’t what they can ...

A research team, including Huanyu "Larry" Cheng, James L. Henderson Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science ...

Imagine walking in an area unknown to you — blindfolded. The chances that you are going to hit something are very high. And that’s exactly what robots would face if not equipped with sensors. Using ...

Researchers have developed an automatic process for making soft sensors. These universal measurement cells can be attached to almost any kind of object. Applications are envisioned especially in ...

The world population is expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. China and India, the two largest countries in the world, have populations totalling around one billion. In four years, by 2022, India is ...

An October 2017 report from BCC Research, Sensors for Robotics: Technologies & Global Markets, predicts that the global market for robotics sensors will grow to $510 million in 2017. That's up from ...

What if robots could move and organize without code or electronics? These particles do this using shape & vibration to create ...