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‘Parkour’ robot dog can leap, jump, and crawl its way through complex obstacle courses

By Mack DeGeurin

woman lays on blue table with two robot arms touching her back

A robot tried to give me ‘the world’s most advanced massage’

By Annie Colbert

Concept art of cyborg jellyfish with forebody attachments

Hat-wearing cyborg jellyfish could one day explore the ocean depths

Can this robot help solve a guide dog shortage?

Can this robot help solve a guide dog shortage?

By Mack DeGeurin

Oh good, the humanoid robots are running even faster now

Oh good, the humanoid robots are running even faster now

vintage photo of scientists with a robot prototype

AI promised humanlike machines–in 1958

By Danielle Williams / The Conversation

OpenAI wants to make a walking, talking humanoid robot smarter

OpenAI wants to make a walking, talking humanoid robot smarter

By Mack DeGeurin

Researchers taught a robot dog to open a door with its leg

Researchers taught a robot dog to open a door with its leg

By Mack DeGeurin

Surgeon using spaceMIRA remote surgery tool on ISS

First remote, zero-gravity surgery performed on the ISS from Earth (on rubber)

Edible soft robot on table

This edible, wriggling robot mimics experience of eating moving food

pleurocystitid soft robot

A sea creature extinct for half a billion years inspired a new soft robot

Caption: CERT’s four-legged Robodog can manuevuer throguh cramped spaces and use sensors to spot fires, leaks, or other hazards.

A four-legged ‘Robodog’ is patrolling the Large Hadron Collider

By Mack DeGeurin

People walk past the K5 robot used by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) in the Times Square subway station in New York on November 28. 2023.

NYPD retires big, egg-shaped subway surveillance robot—for now

By Mack DeGeurin

Biohybrid robot legs in underwater container

Watch this cool, useless biohybrid robot take a stroll

BMW is exploring ways to use Figure’s 5’6, 130 pound humanoid robot in its South Carolina manufacturing facility.

BMW plans to put humanoid robots in a South Carolina factory to do… something

By Mack DeGeurin

Water skimmer inspired robot atop water

These micro-robots were inspired by mini-bugs and water striders

Rendering of Astrobotic Peregrin lunar lander on moon's surface

NASA is headed for the moon next week, and it’s bringing lots of weird stuff

CyberRunner robot capable of playing Labyrinth maze game

Watch an AI-leveraging robot beat humans in this classic maze puzzle game

Tesla Optimus robot handling an egg in demo video

Tesla’s Optimus robot can now squat and fondle eggs

NeRmo mouse robot standing against blue background

Meet NeRmo, the mouse robot with backbone

1-guilla eel robot without casing

Watch this eel robot effortlessly glide underwater

Army ants building living bridge between two ledges in lab

Army ants could teach robots a thing or two

Robot dog at Hyundai factory working on car

Hyundai’s robot-heavy EV factory in Singapore is fully operational

Side by side of 3D printed robot hand gripping pen and bottle

This 3D-printed soft robotic hand has ‘bones,’ ‘ligaments,’ and ‘tendons’

Image of kilobots atop photo of bees

These robots reached a team consensus like a swarm of bees

A long torpedo-shaped fish swims among green plants. Knifefish like the black ghost knifefish are known for their shimmying motions and electrical pulses. and live in freshwater lakes and rivers in Central and South America.

Why electric knifefish ‘shimmy’

By Laura Baisas

The Marines used a ‘robotic goat’ to fire a rocket-propelled grenade

The Marines used a ‘robotic goat’ to fire a rocket-propelled grenade

By Kelsey D. Atherton

AlgaRay robot floating atop water in Antigua

This seafaring robot ‘eats’ stinky seaweed and dumps it in deep water

Animation of multiple robot hands twirling pens in computer simulation

Watch what happens when AI teaches a robot ‘hand’ to twirl a pen

This weird-looking British ship will keep an eye out for sabotage beneath the surface

This weird-looking British ship will keep an eye out for sabotage beneath the surface

By Kelsey D. Atherton

AI-designed multi-legged robots on table

AI design for a ‘walking’ robot is a squishy purple glob

Futuristic aircraft and robotic loaders dazzled at a Dallas tech summit

Futuristic aircraft and robotic loaders dazzled at a Dallas tech summit

Disney’s new bipedal robot could have waddled out of a cartoon

Disney’s new bipedal robot could have waddled out of a cartoon

By Sara Kiley Watson

Man with cerebral palsy drinking from RoboCup

College students invented an easy device for cerebral palsy patients to drink on their own

Watch robot dogs train on obstacle courses to avoid tripping

Watch robot dogs train on obstacle courses to avoid tripping

robot dog doing parjour

How researchers trained a budget robot dog to do tricks

By Harry Guinness

Electronic artificial tongue sensor

An ‘electronic tongue’ could help robots taste food like humans

Four legged robot inspired by frog

This robot trio mimics the life cycle of a frog

Animal deterring robotic wolf sentry

Robotic ‘Super Monster Wolves’ are guarding Japanese towns against bears

Chipotle automated makeline station

Watch Chipotle’s latest robot prototype plunk ingredients into a burrito bowl

Archax robotic mech suit in warehouse

This gigantic mech suit can be yours for $3 million

Skydio X10 drone flying at night

A new drone might help cops stop high-speed car chases

This massive armored vehicle has a giant plow for clearing Russian mines

This massive armored vehicle has a giant plow for clearing Russian mines

By Kelsey D. Atherton

grimace face awkward smiley

Why humans feel bad for awkward robots

By Charlotte Hu

an F-35B fighter jet

What’s in the US military’s historic lost and found: nukes, jets, and drones

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Tiny robot standing on perch

Mini explosions give this little robot a big bounce

Robotic origami microflier

Microflier robots use the science of origami to fall like leaves

Ascento Guard robot

The Ascento Guard patrol robot puts a cartoonish spin on security enforcement

the black hornet drone

The US military’s tiniest drone feels like it flew straight out of a sci-fi film

JAXA LEV-2 lunar probe on sand

The newest moon-bound robot will roll around like a tennis ball

an inchwoom robot climbing up a smooth surface

This wormy robot can wriggle its way around a jet engine

By Charlotte Hu

robot doctor talks to elderly person sitting in chair

Will we ever be able to trust health advice from an AI?

By Keith Wagstaff

US submarine in Australia

Australia is eyeing uncrewed vessels to patrol the vast Pacific Ocean

By Kelsey D. Atherton

The CLARI mini-robot created by Kaushik Jayaram, assistant professor, mechanical engineering and Heiko Kabutz, PhD student, mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder

This small, squishy robot is cuter than its cockroach inspiration

Professor Garry Duffy and Dr Rachel Beatty show the soft robotic implant developed by University of Galway and MIT

This drug-delivery soft robot may help solve medical implants’ scar tissue problem

Close-up of witch hazel plant

Future leaping robots could take a cue from seed-launching witch hazel plants

Robot arms lifting a single Pringles chip

These AI-powered robot arms are delicate enough to pick up Pringles chips

two drones coming together while flying

These nifty drones can lock together in mid-air to form a bigger, stronger robot

By Charlotte Hu

ukraine troops training exercise

Ukraine claims it built a battle drone called SkyKnight that can carry a bomb

By Kelsey D. Atherton

2023 World Robot Conference In Beijing robots

See the coolest and strangest machines from the World Robot Conference

By Popular Science Team

Artist rendering of Somatic bathroom cleaning robot entering restroom

These bathroom-cleaning bots won’t replace human janitors any time soon

Dead humback whale on beach from aerial view

Dead whales and dinosaur eggs: 7 fascinating images by researchers

By Popular Science Team

Soft robot gripper turning a book page

Origami-inspired robot can gently turn pages and carry objects 16,000 times its weight

Sea turtle robot crawling across sand

This waddling robot could guide baby turtles to the sea