The WPI-led project will target summer and after-school programs where middle and high school students will learn hands-on experience and training in collaborative robotics.

WPI, in partnership with DEKA Research and Development Corp., unveils the XRP, a new robotic platform poised to be a game changer for STEM education.

After all, Gennert said, the real benefit of WPI’s participation in Space Robotics is the challenge itself. “Robots, computers, space – that’s all in our DNA,” at WPI, he said.

Robotics use in elder care, household technologies and defense markets are growing rapidly, according to Carol Simpson, WPI provost and senior vice president.

A team of robotics students, faculty and staff from Worcester Polytechnic Institute is among 20 finalists in the NASA-sponsored Space Robotics Challenge, the agency announced recently. The only ...

Six months after a team from Worcester Polytechnic Institute qualified at the DARPA Robotics Trials for the 2015 finals, Computerworld checks in to see how the team is prepping for the next stage.

WPI was the first university to offer a bachelor’s degree program in robotics engineering. In 2009, a WPI robotics team took home $500,000 in NASA prize money after winning the Regolith ...

In addition to its academic programs, WPI’s Robotics Resource Center supports robotics projects, teams, events and K-12 outreach programs. Each year, WPI manages at least seven competitive ...

Fischer has been head of the Automation and Interventional Medicine Robotics Research Laboratory at WPI since 2008. Before taking over as the company’s CEO, he acted as AiM's chief scientific ...

Last month, WPI was one of the 24 teams from around the world that competed in the finals of the two-and-a-half-year-long robotics competition funded by DARPA, the research arm of the U.S. military.

During the 2013 NASA-WPI Sample Return Robot Challenge, teams will compete to demonstrate a robot that can locate and retrieve geologic samples from a wide and varied terrain without human control ...

Markus Nemitz, at the time an assistant professor of robotics engineering at WPI, and Jeremy Trilling, a 2022 graduate of WPI who was a student at the time, were tasked with designing the robot.