Robots

The latest creations and innovations in automated machines.

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Microrobot capsule on tip of finger close up

These tiny robots swim through your blood to fight strokes

a teenage boy holds a robotic hand made out of legosUniversity of Bristol/Jared Lepora

Teen designs and builds a robotic hand with only LEGOs

By Margherita Bassi

R2-D2 is seen with Star Wars BDX Droids backstage during Star Wars Celebration Japan on April 19, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan.

Bird or droid? Starlings nail R2-D2 beeps and boops.

By Mack DeGeurin

atlas robot holding up its three-digit hands

Robot hands are becoming more human

By Mack DeGeurin

Research team lowering Redwing submersible into ocean from a boat

Self-piloting submarine set to begin historic mission to circle Earth’s oceans

Video still of bipedal robot doing cartwheel in lab

This humanoid robot can cartwheel surprisingly well

TORONTO, ON - MAY 28: .Norval Morrisseau work on display at the Kinsman Robinson gallery in Yorkville FOR GODDARD story on one of Canada's most mysterious and tragic artists. Photographed at the Delta Chelsea in Toronto on Friday

Startup uses AI to fight art forgeries—with hyper-realistic copies

By Mack DeGeurin

a robot dog walking with three humans

The perfect robot guide dog shouldn’t be cute

By Mack DeGeurin

A four-legged orange robot dog from Boston Dynamics, named Spot, stands on a shiny concrete floor indoors. The robot has black legs and decals with words like “BOSTONER” and “RUSSELL” on its body. In the background, several yellow robot dogs are lined up against a wall with an industrial mural.

Watch Spot the robot dog nail a triple backflip

By Mack DeGeurin

a robot with four legs being tested in a desert

LASSIE’s robot dog may join astronauts on Mars

By Mack DeGeurin

Humanoid robots compete in the 5v5 soccer during the day one of 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games at National Speed Skating Oval on August 15, 2025 in Beijing, China.

The world’s first robot games were a clumsy mess

By Mack DeGeurin

a robot shaped like an antelope

A furry antelope robot is keeping tabs on its organic cousins

By Mack DeGeurin

Robot fiddler crab waving claw at actual male fiddler crab on beach

‘Wavy Dave’ is a beefy-armed robot crab on a mating mission

jetsons family in spaceship

Researchers have developed a really clunky version of Rosey from ‘The Jetsons’

By Mack DeGeurin

two robot arms playing table tennis

Google set up two robotic arms for a game of infinite table tennis

By Mack DeGeurin

Book scanning robot

This robot scans rare library books at 2,500 pages per hour

a robot rolling through subway

Robots in China are riding the subway to make 7-Eleven deliveries

By Mack DeGeurin

plastic coyotes on robots

US Army deploys plastic coyotes attached to mini four-wheelers

By Mack DeGeurin

a device on the seafloor

How listening to light waves could prevent subsea cables sabotage

By Mack DeGeurin

yellow robot hand

Researchers create most human-like robot skin yet

By Mack DeGeurin