iRobot ', which is familiar with the robot vacuum cleaner Roomba, has announced the programming robot ' Root ' called 'Small Roomba' that trains the next generation of engineers. Since I was able to ...

When I first caught a glimpse of the $200 Create 2, I thought iRobot was about to revolutionize the robot vacuum industry. Its most entry-level model, the Roomba 630, costs $350. That's affordable as ...

As workplace robots become more common in retail stores, hospitals, and warehouses, their human coworkers need to know how to use and reprogram them. Yet most people lack that kind of highly technical ...

Classic industrial robots are often still programmed using textual languages. This requires experts and takes a long time, which is why the resulting high costs are only profitable for large ...

Let’s face it, robots are cool. They’re also going to run the world some day, and hopefully, at that time they will take pity on their poor soft fleshy creators (a.k.a. robotics developers) and help ...

Eugene Izhikevich thinks you shouldn’t have to write code in order to teach robots new tricks. “It should be more like training a dog,” he says. “Instead of programming, you show it consistent ...