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The latest creations and innovations in automated machines.

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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

a vechile in a field

This ‘dual-use’ electric tractor can sow fields and run guns

By Mack DeGeurin

Photogrammetric reconstruction of the submarine USS F-1 on the seafloor west of San Diego, California.

108-year-old submarine wreck seen in stunning detail in new footage

By Margherita Bassi

two robots fighting. one is throwing a kick

In world’s first humanoid boxing match, gloating robot face plants

By Mack DeGeurin

Inflatable flailing tube man balloon against blue sky

Flailing tube man-inspired robot uses no electronics

simulation and real humanoid robot walking

Fancy humanoid robot no longer walks like it urgently needs a toilet

By Mack DeGeurin

Atlas robot doing a somersault

Humanoid robots are breakdancing, with mixed results

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2023/04/11: Robotic device coined Digidog on display during NYPD (New York Police Department) announcement of deployment of innovative technologies on Times Square. Digidog will assist to the NYPD Technical Assistance and Response Unit. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

New York law would ban civilians from weaponizing robots

By Mack DeGeurin

a robot looking at a reflection of itself

Like babies and dancers, this robot learns from studying itself

By Mack DeGeurin

A robot called 'Tiangong' is expected to join dozens of other humanoids in a half marathon race later this year.

Human vs: humanoid: Half-marathon pits robots against 12,000 joggers

By Mack DeGeurin

humanoid robot learned how to Waltz by 'mirroring' its human partner.

Humanoid robot learns to Waltz with the grace of … a robot

By Mack DeGeurin

KOU-III robot jumping on lawn

Behold the hybrid copter-robot that struts and leaps like a chicken

Roboticists at the Tallinn University of Technology have developed a new class of bio-inspired feet that significantly enhance robot mobility on challenging terrains like mud and wet snow.

Dog robots can trek through mud using moose-inspired hooves

Creepy robot toddler can mimic human expressions

Hula hooping robot video still

Scientists identify the perfect hula hoop ‘body type’

A smiling robot's skin in action.

The 11 weirdest things humans did to robots in 2024

By Mack DeGeurin

'Eric the Robot' in 1930.

In 1928, Eric the Robot promised the robo-butler of the future

By Bill Gourgey

Boston Dynamics wishes you a merry terrifying robot Christmas in new video

Boston Dynamics wishes you a merry terrifying robot Christmas in new video

By Mack DeGeurin

Moxie relies on a cloud-based AI system which will go offline in the coming days.

‘I love you… goodbye:’ What will happen when this companion robot suddenly dies?

By Mack DeGeurin

Researchers say they were inspired by the way the Manta ray effortlessly propels itself forward using its fins.

This Manta ray robot is the world’s fastest soft-bodied swimmer

By Mack DeGeurin

The Shadow Robot company's Dextrous Robotic Hand was the most advanced robot hand in the world in 2008.

Why advanced robots still struggle with simple tasks

By Mack DeGeurin

da Vinci Surgical System practicing sutures on pork loin

Watch a robot operate on a pork loin

two sperm whales singing

New method for finding sperm whales kind of works like a rideshare app

By Laura Baisas

autonomous atlas

Oh good, the humanoid robots are working on their own

By Mack DeGeurin

Boston Dynamic's Spot getting kicked in a routine test.

Researchers tortured robots to test the limits of human empathy

By Mack DeGeurin

Ai-Da robot standing in front of two of its paintings at the United Nations

A humanoid robot’s painting called ‘AI God’ may sell for over $120,000

Moflin robot pet

Casio thinks an AI-powered furball can replace your pet

Video Still: Optically driven rotation of ZEEM torus on an air–glycerol interface.

Tiny, doughnut-shaped robot can swim through snot

By Mack DeGeurin

These are the best robot kit in 2024 on a plain white background.

The best robot kits for kids

USS Stewart bow shipwreck with barnacles and crabs

‘Ghost Ship of the Pacific’ rediscovered with underwater drones

Aerobat uses a combination or rigid and soft 3D-printed materials to mimic a bat's malleable wings.

Bats’ weird wings inspired this drone

By Mack DeGeurin

a platypus floating in a creek on the Eungella National Park , Queensland, Australia

Platypus-like robot skin inspired by scientist’s daughter

Electrostatic hydraulic robot leg

Oil-filled ‘muscles’ give this robot leg a spring in its step

This squishy robot uses electrical signals processed from King Oyster mushroom mycelia to scoot back and forth.

This robot is being controlled by a King oyster mushroom

By Mack DeGeurin

Skyline Robotics robot window washing skyscrapers

The skyscraper window-washing robots are here

By Mack DeGeurin

Human playing against Google DeepMind ping pong robot

Watch Google’s ping pong robot beat humans at their own game

Video still of Figure 02 humanoid robot looking at hand

Figure says its new humanoid robot can chat and learn from its mistakes

Perceptive robot dental machine working on human patient

Robot dentist can prep a tooth crown in 15 minutes

VERO four legged robot vacuuming cigarette butts

This plodding robot sucks up cigarette butts

Tiny drones have can only carry very small computer processors with little computation and memory. This makes it very challenging for them to navigate by themselves, as current state-of-the-art approaches to autonomous navigation are computation- and memory intensive.

Bug brains could help drone swarms find their way home

By Mack DeGeurin

Knightscope’s K3 autonomous robot

This egg-shaped security robot is now roaming hospitals

By Mack DeGeurin

Close up of human brain neuron

Lab-grown human brain tissue used to control robot

Can grocery-bagging robots make self-checkout less of a pain?

By Mack DeGeurin

Side by side of lab grown skin on 3D and 2D human face models

Lab-grown, self-healing human skin designed to cover robot faces

Inside the secret lives of wombats

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

These robots learned tennis and boxing after observing people

By Mack DeGeurin

Bornean Orangutan

These orangutans indulge in a spa-like skincare routine

By Popular Science Team

Common cuttlefish

Cuttlefish tentacles and origami inspired a new robotic claw

18 February 2022, Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck: The display of an artificial nose shows the smell of coffee in a laboratory of the Competence Center Communication, Systems and Applications (CoSA) at Lübeck University of Applied Sciences. The small computer with a pig's nose has four sensors and can easily distinguish between coffee, whiskey and room air. In the future, the artificial intelligence (AI) could also warn if, for example, the concentration of hazardous substances is too high at an industrial workplace. (to dpa "How whiskey makes artificial intelligence comprehensible") Photo: Marcus Brandt/dpa (Photo by Marcus Brandt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

AI is cracking a hard problem–giving computers a sense of smell

By Ambuj Tewari / The Conversation

Robot solving Rubik's cube

In blink of an eye, robot sets new Rubik’s cube Guinness World Record

Unitree G1 humanoid robot bending limbs while sitting on couch

Worryingly bendy humanoid robot can crush nuts, slice Coke bottles

Snail robots forming a staircase to reach rock ledge

Swarm of tiny snail robots stick together to form new structures

Boston Dynamics Spot robot in puppet dog costume sitting next to regular Spot robot.

Boston Dynamics gives Spot bot a furry makeover

Why animals run faster than their robot doppelgängers… for now

By Mack DeGeurin