For self-driving vehicles to become an everyday reality, they need to safely and flawlessly navigate one another without crashing or causing unnecessary traffic jams. To help make this possible, ...

Before a robot can grab dishes off a shelf to set the table, it must ensure its gripper and arm won’t crash into anything and potentially shatter the fine china. As part of its motion planning process ...

Multi-robot motion planning and collision avoidance address the challenge of guiding teams of autonomous agents through shared environments without interference or collision. The field spans ...

Stable management of punctuated interaction forces such as in physical collisions remains a major challenge for robots. This challenge is shared across applications such as legged walking 1,2,3, ...

Vention, the leading digital-first industrial automation platform, and FANUC America, the global leader in industrial ...

Delivery robots face bans and backlash in Chicago, Glendale, and Sheffield as residents and unions cite safety risks and job ...

A new safety-check technique can prove with 100 percent accuracy that a planned robot motion will not result in a collision. The method can generate a proof in seconds and does so in a way that can be ...