Howard Huang is laser focused on turning his Shenzhen-based Orbbec into the world’s top supplier of advanced 3D vision sensors for humanoids.

Current robots are severely limited in their intelligence by the constraints inherent in rigid electronic hardware frameworks. The advancement of flexible electronic technology has driven a component ...

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Making robots more human may turn out to be a costly mistake, not because the technology fails, but because it ignores the ...

Robotics research led by Morteza Lahijanian is being highlighted by ASME. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has posted an article about Lahijanian's work in making human-robot interactions ...

Picture a robot controlled by micromotors so small and light that it suspends itself over water like a bug. With engineers at the University of Virginia, that’s now an achievable reality. With their ...

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