Robots should work for humans, so they need to be able to interact with our environment and perceive our world the way we do, ...

Scaled Robotics has created a robot that moves autonomously around construction sites using a 360-degree camera and custom lidar system to document its surroundings. According to Tech Crunch, an ...

Take the little floating ball that gave Luke Skywalker so much trouble during lightsaber practice, slap a pair of huge welder’s goggles on it and you start to get a picture of NASA’s latest foray into ...

Google today said that it’s open-sourced Cartographer, a library for mapping movement in space in both 2D and 3D. the technology works with the open source Robot Operating System (ROS), which makes ...

Looks like the kids at MIT might have a little competition for their LIDAR-equipped 3D mapping drone. Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have teamed up with the University of ...