Dstl and Pearson Engineering have unveiled the Weevil prototype with a full-length robotic mine plough based on Warrior. (UK MoD/Crown copyright) The UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory ...

North East defence specialist Pearson Engineering has helped to develop a robot mine sweeper which is now being trialled by the British Army to clear explosives on the front lines. The Newcastle ...

Robot news has been coming fast and furious this month. One robot won a half-marathon in Beijing, and others captured a ...

Humanoid robots keep showing up in headlines, but many of the most innovative robots doing actual work neither resemble humans nor are built to be general-purpose replacements for them. Instead, ...

Given all of the attention it’s been getting recently, robotics may seem like a brand-new industry. But two of the firms on our list have been around for decades—and one is a conglomerate of companies ...