Technological advancements have continually reshaped industries, altering their landscapes, boosting efficiency, and driving productivity. Robotics, a cornerstone of modern innovation, is particularly ...

Sara Mustafa’s uncle couldn’t feed himself after his cancer paralyzed him — so she and her classmates designed a robot that could hold the spoon for him. The Optimized Meal Assistance Robot, or OMAR, ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Washington created a set of 11 actions a robotic arm can make to pick up nearly any food attainable by fork. This allows the system to learn to pick up ...

Researchers deployed a robotic feeding arm in a pair of studies outside the lab. In the first, six users with motor impairments used the robot to feed themselves a meal in a UW cafeteria, an office or ...

Earlier this year, a robot completed a half-marathon in Beijing in just under 2 hours and 40 minutes. That’s slower than the human winner, who clocked in at just over an hour—but it’s still a ...

Even the best batteries fall far short of animal metabolism for energy storage. Fueling robots with 'food' could narrow the gap. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The meal-assisting robot has been developed by researchers at the University of Washington. The robot uses a specially developed object-detection algorithm termed RetinaNet. The algorithm enables the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) James Pikul, University of Wisconsin-Madison (THE CONVERSATION) Earlier this year, a ...