Vulcan is the first Amazon robot with what the company calls a “genuine sense of touch,” thanks to force feedback sensors and AI-powered software that lets it “feel” items, not just see them (cameras ...

Amazon's Vulcan robot uses touch and AI to stow 75% of warehouse items. Amazon previewed Vulcan during a keynote at Robotics ...

Credit: Amazon/Cover Images Amazon has unveiled a robot capable not only of seeing but also of feeling the world around it.

Proprioception only gets you so far. In designs like those of Malik’s team, the “egocentric” camera plays an important role ...

Amazon’s new “Vulcan” warehouse robot — capable of picking, stowing and rearranging three-quarters of the items Amazon stocks ...

Anders Billesø Beck, VP of innovation and strategy at UR (Universal Robots), discusses five AI-powered robotic applications ...

I asked one of the creators of the arms, Professor Masahiko Inami, to tell me more. This is a small copy of this movement. So physical computing to avoid collision. Also, it's very intuitive. It's ...

Vulcan can stow or pick items from the fabric-covered pods Amazon uses for inventory storage. It has a human–like finesse when handling objects. Force feedback sensors ... is in place at ...

Humanity won this round, with the top human, a racer from Ethiopia, taking first place in the Beijing E-Town ... pointing to a future where human-like machines may not just match, but soon race ...

Semiconductors designed for spacecraft face a range of extreme conditions that impact aging. A reliable source of power is ...

The Vatican conclave will continue on Thursday with as many as four more rounds of voting. A two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinals is required to select a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion ...