Udacity adds robotics and digital marketing Nanodegree programs, 21 new hiring partners

 Today at the inaugural Udacity Intersect conference, the online education startup announced new robotics and digital marketing…

Pebby makes long-distance pet relationships more fun

 I’m convinced that if humans could find fun in simple games as easily as pets, our…

John Deere partners with Kespry to bring drones and aerial data to construction and forestry

 Heavy equipment makers Deere & Co., better known as John Deere, have forged a strategic alliance…

Meet Flippy, a burger grilling robot from Miso Robotics and CaliBurger

 Flipping burgers is a hot and greasy job. Slips and trips, burns and cuts are common…

Disney Research has robots matching verbal styles with kids

 Roboticists at Disney Research are investigating how to improve the quality of human-robot interactions by studying…

MIT programs a robot to self-correct when a human detects a mistake

 In a new video from MIT’s CSAIL department, a smirking industrial robot from Rethink picks up spray paint…

Teaching robots to adjust their grip the way humans do

 Pick up that can. Now say you had to put it down on its side rather…

Cobalt takes the wraps off its indoor security robots

 Palo Alto-based Cobalt Robotics Inc. today introduced a new line of robot security guards for indoor…