Human-robot interaction suggests there’ll likely be many contexts where robots don’t displace workers but rather make the ...

Robots also increase the safety in the workplace by performing tasks that would be dangerous to humans. For example, they handle corrosive acids or extremely hot materials.

Another looming question is robots’ role in the workplace. Wise, a Chicago native who holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois, argues that Fetch’s ...

As workplace robots become more common in retail stores, hospitals, and warehouses, their human coworkers need to know how to use and reprogram them. Yet most people lack that kind of highly technical ...

A new breed of humanoid robots, backed in part by the world's richest men, is attracting both funding and commercial interest ...

Matthew Spenko, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology, discussed what robots bring to the workplace and what skills they might lack.