More than 800 people are working on a top-secret home robot project at Amazon — and at least a handful of them are worried it will be a monumental failure for the company. The “Vesta” robot project is ...

SPARTANBURG, SC—Two humanoid robots have completed an 11-month pilot project at BMW’s assembly plant here.

That was the question Nick Morales (MSR '23) asked himself in April when he and his classmates from Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program presented their robotics ...

Two things have always fascinated Ben Hogan: the process of how things are made, and outer space. While considering his options for college, aerospace engineering seemed like the best of both worlds - ...

Josh Marino (MSR '15) is a Robotics Engineer for Intelligent Automation, Inc., a technology innovation company. Marino finds himself innovating on a daily basis, and in the process using key lessons ...

We've been hearing rumors for years now alleging that Amazon has a home robot project codenamed 'Vesta' in the works, one that may — based on the latest leak — still be planned despite rumors of ...

We do not often think about the labor that goes into bringing our favorite fruits and vegetables to our table. For farmers, growing healthy crops involves repetitive tasks such as weeding and spraying ...

During a recent visit to Alphabet’s X lab, I drained my coffee and left the compostable cup on a tray marked “Cans & Bottles.” The transgression was soon mended. Twenty minutes later, a wheeled, ...

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Disney Imagineering, the company’s in-house research and development studio has revealed Project Kiwi, its in-development robotics platform. For over three years, the company has been working on a ...