Safety and efficiency are two important aspects of human-robot collaboration (HRC). Most existing control methods for HRC consider either contactless HRC or physical HRC, hindering more efficient HRC.

Sorting tasks are typical applications in the product and industrial domains. When facing new settings, such as different types of objects and their positions, the system has to be reprogrammed by ...

Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In a laboratory outside Cambridge sits a remarkable “biological computer”. Its 200,000 human ...

Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.