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Another League Under the Sea: Tomorrow’s Research Subs Open Earth’s Final Frontier
Robots

Another League Under the Sea: Tomorrow’s Research Subs Open Earth’s Final Frontier

By Abe Streep

Darpa’s Self-Feeding Sentry Robot is Not a Man-Eater, Company Protests
DARPA

Darpa’s Self-Feeding Sentry Robot is Not a Man-Eater, Company Protests

By Jeremy Hsu

Robot Unemployment Rate Soars in Japan
Robots

Robot Unemployment Rate Soars in Japan

By Jeremy Hsu

Psychiatry Via a Laser Beam To the Brain
Robots

Psychiatry Via a Laser Beam To the Brain

By Corey Binns

Twendy-One Nursebot Says Sit Up and Eat Your Jell-O
Health

Twendy-One Nursebot Says Sit Up and Eat Your Jell-O

By Corey Binns

Cyclone Biomass Engine Takes Next Step in Powering DARPA’s EATR Bot, a Hungry Hungry Sentinel
Robots

Cyclone Biomass Engine Takes Next Step in Powering DARPA’s EATR Bot, a Hungry Hungry Sentinel

By Jeremy Hsu

Animals

Finding Nature’s Most Efficient Flight Mechanism

By Rebecca Boyle

Control a Robot with Your Mind
Health

Control a Robot with Your Mind

By Corey Binns

Just Press “Save”
Robots

Just Press “Save”

By Brian Ashcraft

Jamie Price, wearing a red dress shirt and jeans, holding a beer next to his homemade bartending robot named Bar2D2.
DIY

Drink-slinging droid

By Gregory Mone

Robots

Send in the Rescue Robots

By Val Wang

Rage From the Machine: Robot Attacks Swedish Industrial Worker
Robots

Rage From the Machine: Robot Attacks Swedish Industrial Worker

By Amber Sasse

The Future — and Past — of Surgery
Health

The Future — and Past — of Surgery

By Stuart Fox

The Future of Legs
Health

The Future of Legs

By Paul Adams

Robots

Robots to Fight Autism

By Val Wang

The Future of the Military — Perhaps
Military

The Future of the Military — Perhaps

By James Vlahos

Robots at War
Military

Robots at War

By Val Wang

Pole-Dancing Robots
Robots

Pole-Dancing Robots

By Gregory Mone

A homemade robot at the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition in New York City.
DIY

Robotic adventures at the FIRST competition

By Paul Gleason

What Would You Do With 4 Billion Dollars?
Robots

What Would You Do With 4 Billion Dollars?

By Steven Kotler

Return of the Bodacious ‘Bots
Robots

Return of the Bodacious ‘Bots

By Julia Wallace

Dude, Where’s My Flying Car (and Jetpack and Armies of Robots)?
Robots

Dude, Where’s My Flying Car (and Jetpack and Armies of Robots)?

By Stuart Fox

Dude, Where’s My Flying Car (and Jetpack, and Robot Armies)?
Robots

Dude, Where’s My Flying Car (and Jetpack, and Robot Armies)?

By Stuart Fox

Rent a Robotic Suit Named HAL
Health

Rent a Robotic Suit Named HAL

By John Brandon

A white remote-controlled truck with an Arduino on top of it, sitting on a gravel path near a lawn.
DIY

Arduino muscle car

By Dave Prochnow

A person using an iPhone to control a watering can at Maker Faire 2008 in San Francisco.
Aviation

DIY paradise at Maker Faire

By John Mahoney

Robotic Jellyfish On The Move
Robots

Robotic Jellyfish On The Move

By Gregory Mone

Video: The XOS Exoskeleton in Action
Robots

Video: The XOS Exoskeleton in Action

By Gregory Mone

Building the Real Iron Man
DARPA

Building the Real Iron Man

By Gregory Mone

The Firefighting Robot
Robots

The Firefighting Robot

By Michael Dumiak

A robot lion head mounted as a hunting trophy on a white wall.
DIY

Robot taxidermy

By Dave Prochnow

Fake Dog, Real Benefits
Animals

Fake Dog, Real Benefits

By Gregory Mone

Here come the Halloween hacks
DIY

Here come the Halloween hacks

By Abby Seiff

DepthX: Mission 1 Accomplished
Robots

DepthX: Mission 1 Accomplished

By Megan Miller

A WowWee Roboraptor with a flame coming out of its mouth to toast some charred marshmallows.
DIY

A fire-breathing bot

By Dave Prochnow

A monkey mask on the ground next to a skinned robotic monkey head.
DIY

Scare tactics

By Theodore Gray and Paul Wallich

U.S. Open Instant Replay: Total Accuracy, Major Fun
Robots

U.S. Open Instant Replay: Total Accuracy, Major Fun

By Jackson Lynch

The Future of Robots
Robots

The Future of Robots

By Ray Kurzweil. Photo essay text Eric Mika

Robots

5 paths to the walking, talking, pie-baking humanoid robot

By Gregory Mone

Robots

Robots R Us

By Ray Kurzweil

A yellow homemade ROV in some murky water.
DIY

The homemade spy sub

By Gregory Mone

The Smartest Robot Pet Yet
Gear

The Smartest Robot Pet Yet

By Jenny Everett

DOG OF WAR
Army

The Army’s Robot Sherpa

By Preston Lerner

a human and a robotic hand holding chips
Robots

The Magic Touch

By Billy Baker

DARPA

Trust Me–I’m a Robot

By Gregory Mone

Robots

Vex Robotics Design System’s Inventor’s Guide

By Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute

Could Robots Take Over the World?
Robots

Could Robots Take Over the World?

By Rena Pacella

The color-tracking robot the author built. Illustration.
DIY

Eat your heart out, Aibo

By Jonathan Coulton

mechanic fixing a car at the DARPA's Challenge
DARPA

From Darpa Grand Challenge 2004DARPA’s Debacle in the Desert

By Joseph Hooper

ROCKET OF DOOM
Robots

The Man Who Mistook His Girlfriend for a Robot

By Dan Ferber

Robots of the Deep Blue Yonder
Robots

Robots of the Deep Blue Yonder

By Greg Mone

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