To reliably complete various manual tasks, robots should be able to handle a variety of objects, ranging from items found in ...

Amazon has developed a new warehouse robot that uses touch to rummage around shelves to find the right product to ship to customers. The robot, called Vulcan, is a meaningful step toward making robots ...

The tech giant this morning unveiled what it describes as its first warehouse robot with a sense of touch. The robot, dubbed Vulcan, uses force sensors and AI to handle and organize inventory with ...

The company insists that its new Vulcan robot will be used ‘alongside’ existing warehouse workers. The company insists that its new Vulcan robot will be used ‘alongside’ existing warehouse workers. is ...

Robots excel at many things, but having a good sense of touch is not among them. Whether dropping items or pinching them too tightly, which crushes the object, many robots struggle with these basic ...

This week Amazon debuted a new warehouse robot that has a sense of "touch," but the company also promised its new bot will not replace human warehouse workers. On Monday, at Amazon's Delivering the ...

What just happened? Amazon has unveiled a revolutionary new robot that has a sense of touch, which will allow it to handle around three quarters of all items in the company's warehouses at a speed ...

There's a new warehouse robot at Amazon that has a sense of touch, allowing it to handle a job previously only done by humans. Amazon unveiled the robot, called Vulcan, Wednesday at an event in ...

In the digital world, sight and sound had a bit of a head start, but our other senses have few practical applications. But that's not the case with robots, and MIT just leveraged an incredible new ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate cluttered spaces and sort thousands of parcels an hour. But ask a robot to touch ...

Researchers are developing robotic “fingertips” that could give surgeons back their sense of touch during minimally invasive and robotic operations. By Anthony King Modern surgery has gone from long ...