When a group of academics started making open-source robotics hardware, a generation of roboticists got years of their lives back. Now, the bigger challenge is getting robots to think—and that’s ...

SAN ANTONIO — May 13, 2025 —Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is simplifying robotics programming with software that models, plans and executes automation in a user-friendly environment. The SwRI ...

Now, as a student in Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program, Patil developed an open-source software package that filled what he saw as a gap in the robotics community.

Alphabet’s Intrinsic has debuted its AI-powered "Intelligence Cell" to simplify factory automation and eliminate complex ...

What models are available to engineers for prototype development using AI? (There are more than you think!) In situations where voice control or keyboard or touchscreen commands aren’t practical, are ...

Hugging Face's LeRobot platform — a free, open-source framework for training AI models on physical robots — now hosts more than 58,000 community-contributed datasets, up from 1,145 at the end of 2024, ...

Katie Hughes (MSR '23) is thrilled to be using lessons learned in Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program to help advance robotics and artificial intelligence. The AI ...