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 ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Amazon unveiled Vulcan, a warehouse robot with 'a sense of touch,' at an event in Germany. Vulcan adds/removes items from pods ...

Amazon has recently unveiled its latest innovation -- Vulcan, a robot that has a sense of touch. The company has designed these robots aiming to help in warehouse work. Amazon states, "Today at our ...

A new AI system fuses vision, vibrations, touch and its own body states to help robots understand and move through difficult in-the-wild environments. (Nanowerk News) The wealth of information ...

When it comes to keyhole surgery, surgeons typically rely on sight as they remotely control the operation. Now, a new robot can give them one extra sense: touch. Called HeroSurg, the robot was created ...

Robots just got a feel for the job—literally. Amazon has deployed Vulcan, its first-ever robot with a sense of touch, at a fulfillment center in Dortmund, Germany. The robot, which was unveiled during ...

Amazon is getting closer to deploying the closest thing to a human in its fulfillment centers as it unveiled a robot that can “feel.” Its latest robotics breakthrough, though, isn’t part of a plot to ...

A new Duke-developed AI system fuses vision, vibrations, touch and its own body states to help robots understand and move through difficult in-the-wild environments The wealth of information provided ...

Sergey Levine is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley whose research is focused on the thing our parents used to make such a fuss over, whenever we made stupid mistakes or should have known to avoid ...

Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (USA) have discovered that people sense the hand of a humanoid robot as part of their ...