Worcester Polytechnic Institute is launching the nation's first undergraduate degree in robotics -- and business leaders are already lining up to hire its future graduates. Worcester Polytechnic ...

WPI researchers are enabling aerial robots, smaller than 100 mm and weighing less than 100 g, to navigate without relying on vision.

A Halloween event last year ended up providing inspiration for a WPI project to create a drone that operates similar to a bat.

GENEVA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Just hours before the 2022 FIRST Global Challenge Opening Ceremonies at the Palexpo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), in partnership with DEKA Research and Development ...

The arm uses origami for its construction. Lightweight plastic is folded in construction. The arm is designed to assist people with disabilities. WORCESTER — When someone envisions a robotic arm, they ...

Worcester, Mass. – August 10, 2023 – Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher Markus Nemitz is the recipient of a $599,815 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to develop an ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute will offer the nation's first bachelor's degree program in robotics engineering starting in the fall of '07. Students in the program, which is to be offered jointly by ...

In pursuit of new technological solutions for America’s space program and our nation’s future, NASA and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Mass., have opened registration for the ...

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — For the second straight year, a student robotics team from Worcester Polytechnic Institute has a won a robotics competition sponsored by NASA. The tournament is called the RASC ...

AiM Medical Robotics in Worcester announced on Wednesday it has appointed Gregory Fischer as the company’s new CEO.The medical device company’s former CEO Robert Cathcart has been named executive ...

WORCESTER ― As a leading university in robotics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute has designed robots that have performed tasks all over the world. When producers from Hollywood saw a YouTube video of ...

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are developing tiny drones inspired by bats for search and rescue missions.