Robotics

NVIDIA used its GTC 2025 event this week to announce Isaac for Healthcare, a developer framework for AI healthcare robotics. | Source: NVIDIA NVIDIA’s “Super Bowl of AI” is seeing excitement around autonomous cars and robots — but there is plenty of medtech AI innovation work to discuss, too. GTC 2025 — running March 17–21, 2025 in San Jose, California — has seen news about using artificial intelligence to advance autonomous imaging, surgical robotics, brain-computer interfaces,

Day two of NVIDIA GTC is behind us. The highlight of the day was NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote session at the San Jose Arena. The arena was packed to the rafters with an estimated 16,000 attendees. Huang presented for nearly two hours, and at one point, brought the Disney BDX robot up on stage with him. The Disney BDX robot entertained the crowd while NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang discussed new robot products. | Credit:

Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a candle to a squirrel, which can parkour through a thicket of branches, leap across perilous gaps and execute pinpoint landings on the flimsiest of branches. University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers are trying to remedy that situation. Based on studies of the biomechanics of squirrel leaps and landings, they have designed a hopping robot

Women working within the robotics industry often find they might be one of the only ones on their team or even at their company. This can be an isolating experience, making it difficult for women in robotics to find a community to support them. Currently, women make up 48% of the total workforce and just 34% of the STEM workforce, according to the National Girls Collaborative Project. When it comes to engineering and robotics roles, the

SEER Robotics’ SPT-1000 features a patented design, AI integration, and a highly adaptable navigation system. | Source: SEER Robotics SEER Robotics debuted its SPT-1000 at ProMat this week. The company’s latest autonomous pallet truck features a compact structure, AI-powered adaptability, and seamless pallet compatibility. Unlike traditional forklifts, the SPT-1000 features a patented forked pallet structure that allows it to handle closed pallets—common in the North American market—without modifications. SEER Robotics said this addresses a long-standing

An AI-powered robot that can prepare cups of coffee in a busy kitchen could usher in the next generation of intelligent machines, a study suggests. Using a combination of cutting-edge AI, sensitive sensors and fine-tuned motor skills, the robot can interact with its surroundings in more human-like ways than ever before, researchers say. The new technology, developed by a team at the University of Edinburgh, could transform robots’ ability to carry out tasks that previously

Florida State University chemists have created a machine learning tool that can identify the chemical composition of dried salt solutions from an image with 99% accuracy. By using robotics to prepare thousands of samples and artificial intelligence to analyze their data, they created a simple, inexpensive tool that could expand possibilities for performing chemical analysis. The work was published in Digital Discovery. “We are living in the age of artificial intelligence and big data,” said