In the pantheon of technologies that make our modern society possible, one of the most underappreciated and neglected is the threaded fastener, more commonly known as the screw. This technology ...

Wheels and tracks are common choices for robot propulsion, but they’re not the only game in town. You can do some nifty things with long extruded screws , and they work pretty well in soft terrain.

After more than eight grueling hours of screwing parts together, my arm was sore and my mind numb. But when the 13-inch-tall robot finally took its first teetering steps, I was moved like a proud ...

French startup Inbolt and the world's largest industrial robotics company Fanuc are launching what they describe as a“manufacturing breakthrough” enabling Fanuc robots to tackle one of the most ...

Here's the scenario: three assembly robots are gathered around a pile of parts that can be combined to make a chair. The robots recognize how the individual parts fit together -- a foot screws to a ...