Automation Scara robot operates at the Center for Industrial Research and Services' Digital Manufacturing Lab in Iowa State University's Research Park on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, in Ames, Iowa.

A turkey tending robot at Jack Kilian’s founder and CEO of Poultry Patrol, Inc., home workshop in Coralville, Iowa, on Thursday, April 3, 2025.

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These Lightstrike robots aren’t like robot vacuums. They’re far larger. “If you think of R2D2 from Star Wars, it actually is kind of shaped like that,” Anglin said.

Like many other manufacturing companies, East Iowa Machine Co. turned to robots to carry out many tasks traditionally performed by humans, the Telegraph Herald (https://bit.ly/1Ewo9SE ) reported.

Iowa board approves funding for poultry robot, solar roofing by Dar Danielson | Mar 25, 2025 The Iowa Economic Development Board recently approved funds for three start-up businesses.

Quote “There’s microrobotics, where people want to make robots smaller and smaller. And there’s soft robotics, where people don’t want to make robots out of iron and steel. This project is an overlap ...

72 high school and middle school teams from around Iowa and parts of Nebraska competed. Each team designs, builds and programs a robot.