Using haptic technology as part of VR is still in its infancy, but researcher Scott Devine has a solution that diverges from traditional haptic feedback devices. He’s using a $25,000 industrial robot, ...

Working with robots is becoming more common in the recycling industry, helping automate tasks and making complicated work easier. But training human employees to work with robots can be difficult and ...

As amazing as VR can be, nothing breaks the immersion like putting your hand right through a wall. While some teams are using haptics to simulate the sense of touch, a new study has a clever ...

Appointment viewing comes to virtual reality with a one-time experience (don't worry, it's coming back soon). So what was it like? I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable ...

A recent video shows the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition’s (IHMC) humanoid robot Nadia practicing boxing with a VR motion capture setup and a remote joystick. Images demonstrate how ...

Robot fighting is a thing of the present. Robots controlled by professional fighters faced off at a boxing gym in San ...

At the threshold of the autonomous revolution, one fact has remained stubbornly consistent for the last half-century: Controlling robots is a pain. Virtual reality, it turns out, could be the key to ...