Six and a half years after the previous iteration, the Fraunhofer Institute has released an update to Care-o-bot. The affordable service robot for personal and professional use has been made it more ...

Engineers have developed a new model of universal helper – the fourth generation of the Care-O-bot. This robot may also serve as the basis for commercial service robot solutions. Service robots have ...

Robots are the next big thing, and we've seen more than a few examples in the recent past. There's the Personal Robot, for example, and there's the hotel-centric Botlr that satisfies customers' most ...

German researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute have introduced their third generation of household robots, the Care-O-Bot 3. The previous generations of this mobile robot assistant were designed to ...

Ever wished you could make your 5,000-square-foot mansion in the Hills look better without having to hire all these people to clean it, cook and so on? No? Well, who cares if you didn’t, that probably ...

Picking up a little domestic robot help is possible these days, but it'll cost you £180,000 Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our newsletter We have more ...

(Nanowerk News) The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA has been developing innovative service robots since the 1990s. These can be used in areas including households ...

Who doesn't long for household help at times? Service robots will soon be able to relieve us of heavy, dirty, monotonous or irksome tasks. Research scientists have now presented a new generation of ...

We’re inching closer and closer to the day when robots became a daily part of our home lives. Researchers at UC Berkeley’s Computer Science Division have programmed a robot to fold laundry. It’s still ...

July 11, 2008 The one-armed robot glides slowly to the kitchen table. With its three fingers, it carefully picks up the bottle of apple juice and puts it next to the glasses on the tray in front of it ...