AI-driven autonomous robots are coming to biology laboratories, but researchers insist that human skills remain essential.

Gabriel Gomes built an agent that turns plain English into physical experiments, enabling research that humans alone could never sustain ...

Suspended on a cable fixed between two trees in front of the Engineering Gateway building on UC Irvine’s campus hangs the RaccoonBot. And well, he’s just adorable. “The ‘cute factor’ wasn’t just a ...

Opentrons, a leader in lab automation, announces the launch of its Opentrons Flex robot, a new generation of affordable and easy-to-program liquid-handling lab robots designed to level the playing ...

In the software realm, agentic AI models, platforms that can serve as assistants for researchers, also stood out. Executives ...

Lisa Bates, a medical technologist see seen through the window of a PCR analysis machine in the PCR testing lab at Quest Diagnostics on February 9, 2022 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The lab is capable of ...

Industrial robots are sometimes kept away from humans and behind cages for fear of their mindless iron grip and bone-crunching power. But in the gleaming corridors of the new Stanford Robotics Center, ...

It is not hard to find popular depictions of robots in the future. What comes to my mind is Rosie the robot maid from the animated comic “The Jetsons.” Ever faithful and dependable, she is as much a ...

Alphabet Inc.’s X research lab today provided an update about its Everyday Robots project, which aims to develop robots capable of performing day-to-day tasks such as tidying chairs. The X research ...