To view the promotional video for the Beam Pro telepresence robot is to glimpse a strange, disquieting future. Observe as a corporate executive (ensconced in the comfort and privacy of her own home) ...

Beam, a telepresence robot with a screen that a person can remotely control and use to communicate via video, became a breakthrough success in the world of robotics in part because of its role in ...

This Beam store is the only one of its kind. Visitors who walk in will be greeted with a whirring sound, as the machines roll up and their hosts say hello. Behind each screen is a Beam employee, ready ...

While quadruped robots may surpass their wheeled counterparts at traversing rough terrain, they still aren't able to maintain their balance when moving along narrow ridges. That could change, though, ...

While discussing humanoid robots not long ago, someone told me their main issue with the form factor is that — from an evolutionary standpoint — we’re not built particularly well. That’s not to say ...

How did the robot cross over the creek? Very carefully, as it turns out, and with a lot of practice. Many actions that humans can do with ease -- like navigating over rocks to reach the other side of ...

While four-legged robots can achieve impressive feats, like pulling an airplane or climbing a fence, they still have a few limitations. In most cases, they need a fairly large surface to walk on. A ...

Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute (RI) has made a remarkable leap in robotics by developing a system that allows a standard quadruped robot to walk on a narrow balance beam! According to ...

The purpose of the project is to control a beam robot with the use of a PIC16F818 microcontroller which provides a lot of features. The purpose of the project is to control a beam robot with the use ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Engineer Dallas Goecker attends meetings, jokes with colleagues and roams the office building just like other employees at his company in Silicon Valley. But Goecker isn’t in ...

You might’ve missed him, but Edward Snowden was at the Consumer Electronics Show-virtually, through a robot screen, that is. The National Security Agency whistleblower made a casual appearance in Las ...

John Remmell rolled into his classroom Monday morning and began taking questions from his freshman class about homework assignments that needed to be completed. As he began to answer one question, ...