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The iRobot Braava Jet 240 is a smart, semi-intelligent floor mopping robot that can help you with your daily cleaning chores, at least as far as mopping is concerned.

iRobot Braava Jet 240 review: The Ideal floor cleaner for small spaces

A basic floor cleaning and mopping robot with smartphone controls.

15 July 2017 2:24 PM IST

Xiao Nan, the robot reporter, took only a second to finish writing the piece. (representational image)

Robot reporter gets its first news article published

The article was published in the Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily.

19 Jan 2017 8:07 AM IST

Talley by Simbe Robotics is the worlds first robotic autonomous shelf auditing and analytics solution for retail. Tally works in concert with retail associates by arming them with information to ensure the stores products are always stocked, in the right place and displaying the correct price tag. Tally is powered by Intel NUC with Intel Core i7 Processor and uses a number of cameras powered by Intel RealSense Technology to help understand the world around it. (CREDIT: Intel Corporation)

Intel unveils Tally, world's first autonomous solution for retail

Intel also announced the launch of a new Intel Responsive Retail Platform.

17 Jan 2017 1:48 PM IST

Current scorpion-milking methods are either dangerous, unreliable or harmful to the animal. This robot milks the scorpions by clamping the tail and electrically stimulating the animal to express droplets of venom, which is then captured and safely stored.

New light, portable robot to extract scorpion venom

The scorpion-milking robot could replace the traditional manual method which can be potentially life-threatening,...

3 July 2017 1:50 PM IST

The fastest a human solved it was in 4.904 seconds (Photo: YouTube)

Video: Robot solves Rubik's cube in 0.637 milliseconds

The previous record for a machine solving the cube stands at 1 second.

15 Nov 2016 3:15 PM IST

Sex robots may also have different personality traits that can be activated manually (Photo: Pixabay)

Mid-sized Japanese firms plan to buy robots to ease manufacturing

It is unclear how much of that is being spent on automation

15 May 2017 9:24 PM IST

The bills would clarify gray areas in current law about the legality of the robots and make Virginia the first state in the U.S. to regulate such devices. (Photo: Pixabay)

Automation to take over majority of the jobs

Automation is the new normal in sectors like engineering, manufacturing, automobiles, IT and banking.

26 March 2017 3:52 PM IST

Team leader Chen Xiaoping sounded like a proud father as he and his prototype appeared Monday at an economic conference organised by banking giant UBS in Shanghais futuristic financial centre.

China builds 'Jia Jia' human-like robot

Jia Jia was first trotted out last year by a team of engineers at the University of Science and Technology of China.

12 Jan 2017 3:08 PM IST

This handout video grab taken with an underwater robot and provided by Japans International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning on July 21 shows a part of the pedestal wall inside reactor No. 3 at Fukushima nuclear power plant. (Photo: AFP)

Robot finds possible melted fuel inside Fukushima reactor

Large amounts of the solidified lumps and deposit were spotted for the first time by the robot.

24 July 2017 7:49 AM IST

The idea developed from a prosthetics hand he made in 2011, the first-ever made on a 3-D printer. The robot is made with a 3-D printer and micro-cameras.

French designer shows off DIY robot in public for 1st time

Designer Gael Langevin unveiled the robot at a technology fair in Romania this week.

27 May 2017 9:55 AM IST

The robot is a tube of soft material folded inside itself, like an inside-out sock, that grows in one direction when the material at the front of the tube everts, as the tube becomes right-side-out.

Soft robot that grows like vines may aid rescue operations

The robot is inspired by natural organisms that cover distance by growing such as vines, fungi and nerve cells.

21 July 2017 2:51 PM IST

A newly developed vine-like robot can grow across long distances without moving its whole body. It could prove useful in search and rescue operations and medical applications. (Image: Stanford University)

A robot that can grow!

Stanford researchers develop a new type of soft, growing robot.

21 July 2017 11:33 AM IST