A team from the University of Washington just returned from a competition on Mars. Or, Utah’s version of the Red Planet. Husky Robotics, a student-led organization, competed in the University… Read More
Amazon is rolling out machines that could automate boxing up orders across the company’s network of warehouses and phase out humans doing that work today. Reuters reported that Amazon has… Read More
Next fall, as you browse the produce section at your local grocery store, pay close attention to the apples. You might be witnessing American history. For the first time, some… Read More
Kids who have caught on to the world of FIRST LEGO League competitions will have something new to build with next season, with exclusive new LEGO sets that actually focus… Read More
Amazon has acquired Canvas Technology, a Boulder, Colo., robotics company that powers autonomous vehicles in industrial settings. Amazon for years now has pushed to automate parts of its warehouses, deploying… Read More
Editor’s note: Aedan Henry is an Issaquah (Wash.) High School junior and co-president of the Issaquah Robotics Society. GeekWire asked him to provide his perspective on why he’s drawn to… Read More
Every year, Amazon and Jeff Bezos hold an elite, invitation-only conference called MARS, for Machine learning, Automation, Robotics and Space, which doubles as an excuse for the Amazon founder to test out the latest… Read More
The LEGO Lassies, a team of sixth-grade girls from Kirkland, Wash., just keep racking up wins in FIRST Washington robotics competitions, and now they’re headed to Houston to compete in… Read More
Find someone who looks at you the way Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos looks at the robotic dragonfly that’s buzzing around his head at this week’s MARS conference. MARS is Amazon’s… Read More
It can sometimes be tough to grasp just how quickly advances are happening in robotics, whether it’s taking place on a warehouse floor or via an artificially intelligent dog that… Read More
Bank customers who have already embraced technology as a way of handling their transaction needs could be lured offline and back into a retail branch if one cute robot has… Read More
Robotics researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle have developed a robotic system that can feed pieces of fruit to humans on command. The work is an early-stage project… Read More
“We love STEM! We love STEM!” There wasn’t a more spirited chant to be heard at Thursday night’s GeekWire Bash in Seattle as more than 200 kids from across Washington… Read More
The town of Nespelem, Wash., located on the Colville Tribal Reservation about 4 1/2 hours northeast of Seattle, is home to about 230 people. There is a gas station, a… Read More
In his quest to solve, or have a hand in solving, some of the world’s more pressing problems, Bill Gates has no doubt been presented with a range of evolving… Read More
Eight students from a low-income sugarcane town in South Florida spent months on a robotics project tackling kidney stones in space. Across the country, researchers at the University of Washington… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When the first human explorers head for Mars, they’re likely to have a non-human judging their performance and tweaking their interpersonal relationships when necessary. NASA and outside… Read More
It seems like we’ve moved to the Midwest or East Coast with Seattle weather lately. And days like these make us think about how technology can help kids continue to… Read More
Katherine Pratt has a degree from MIT, she interned at Blue Origin, worked on fighter jets in the Air Force, interned for a congresswoman, and is chasing her PhD at… Read More
Seattle startup Proprio Vision wants to overhaul how surgeons see. At least, that’s the admittedly ambitious first step toward its larger, even more audacious goal of changing how medicine is delivered.… Read More
Many of you already know and love the GeekWire Bash — our annual geek festival that includes everything from competitive ping pong tournaments to interactive virtual reality displays to fast-moving… Read More
When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang interacted with a sensitive robotic hand at today’s open house for his company’s robotics research lab in Seattle, it was love at first touch. “It almost… Read More
Paul Mikesell, a University of Washington trained computer scientist who co-founded storage giant Isilon Systems in 2001, has left Uber and raised cash for a secretive robotics startup based in… Read More
Oh, great, more Russian propaganda. Only this time it appears it was the Russians who were fooled by some fake moves. A human dressed in a robot costume reportedly danced… Read More
San Francisco-based Bright Machines is coming to Seattle. The maker of software and robotics systems for manufacturing plans to open an office in 2019 and has hired Nick Ciubotariu as SVP… Read More
No doubt the proliferation of voice assistants has changed the landscape in which we live. Whether it’s Alexa or Siri or Google Assistant, we’ve come to accept voice as a… Read More
The Ewoks are going to want to run for their lives if this thing tramps through the woods of Oregon. A bipedal robot named Cassie, created at Oregon State University,… Read More
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but will it make for a more intriguing robot? That’s the question researchers are looking to explore through a new initiative called “Curious Minded… Read More
Amazon is tapping one of the world’s leading human-robot interaction experts to help manage a robotics operation that has become an integral part of the company’s fulfillment centers. The Seattle… Read More
For five years, a University of Washington spin-out called BluHaptics has been building up a business focusing on robotic control software for underwater robots — and now the Seattle startup is… Read More