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The latest creations and innovations in automated machines.

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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

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

Robotic arms welding car frames on automotive assembling line

Why industrial automation can be so costly

Two NASA lunar CADRE rovers parked on the ground

NASA gears up to send a trio of rovers to the moon in 2024

a robot starting at toy objects on table

Robots could now understand us better with some help from the web

By Charlotte Hu

The U.S. Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle 4

What is DARPA? The rich history of the Pentagon’s secretive tech agency

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Thermal vision of a home.

A new kind of thermal imaging sees the world in striking colors

Deep underground, robotic teamwork saves the day

Deep underground, robotic teamwork saves the day

By Kurt Kleiner/Knowable Magazine

onesat robotic arm

Robot limbs could keep satellite plasma thrusters at an arm’s length

An electric cow, a robot mailman, and other automatons we overestimated

By Bill Gourgey

Chipotle worker removing peeled and sliced avocados from Autocado robot

Chipotle is testing an avocado-pitting, -cutting, and -scooping robot

Three quadruped robots standing on rocky terrain

Four-legged dog robots could one day explore the moon

The best robot vacuums

The best robot vacuums

By Jackson Cooper

a model of a Kia EV9

A look at the weird intersection of taxidermy and car design

By Kristin Shaw

A honey bee pollinates a yellow flower against a bright blue sky.

Bee brains could teach robots to make split-second decisions

By Laura Baisas

Screenshot of inching magnetic soft robot

This magnetic robot could worm its way into human blood vessels

VIPER moon rover coming down a ramp during a test at the NASA Ames Research Center

NASA’s quirky new lunar rover will be the first to cruise the moon’s south pole

Robot leg inspired by krill

This robotic leg could give machines krill-like swimming abilities

A hand wearing a smart glove playing keyboard next to computer readings of movements

This AI-powered glove could help stroke patients play the piano again

Robotic gripper holding pillbug that is gripping piece of cotton

This weird robot uses living bugs as gripping tools

Two dancers wearing Jizai Arms wearable robotic appendagees

These wearable cyborg arms were modeled after Japanese horror fiction and puppets

fake raspberry for testing robot pickers

This robot used a fake raspberry to practice picking fruit

By Charlotte Hu

This pangolin-inspired robot can curl up into a healing ball

This pangolin-inspired robot can curl up into a healing ball

Mori3 robots combined to form 3D walking shape

These 2D machines can shapeshift into moving 3D robots

Spotted lanternfly adult on leaf

This lanternfly-egg-hunting robot could mean fewer bugs to squish

By Charlotte Hu

Fire ants moving across ground

Robot dog sniffs out fire ants without the painful sting

a tunnel in a sewer system

Taiwan sent mosquito-fighting robots into its sewers

By Charlotte Hu

a drone flies over the water

Watch a ‘flying fish’ drone hover in the air and then swim underwater

By Harry Guinness

Rear side of sweating robot

This very sweaty robot measures how heat affects humans

Person underwater looking up at outer space to represent Blue Abyss training tank. Illustrated.

Inside Blue Abyss’ plan to build super-deep pools for astronauts and military bots

By Sarah Scoles

Robot arm assembling salad from ingredients

This robot ‘chef’ can follow video instructions to make a very simple salad

A robot inspired by centipedes has no trouble finding its footing

A robot inspired by centipedes has no trouble finding its footing

ZiGGY mobile EV charger connected to vehicle in parking lot.

The Dallas airport is testing out EV charging bots that roll around like suitcases

Beagle flying over an obstacle hurdle

Google engineers used real dogs to develop an agility course for robots

glider drops from navy helicopter

Watch the US Navy launch an ocean glider from a helicopter

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Gardener harvesting beets from ground.

A robot gardener outperformed human horticulturalists in one vital area

Robot arm encased in smart sweater material

Cozy knit sweaters could help robots ‘feel’ contact

Wendy's chain restaurant at night.

Wendy’s wants underground robots to deliver food to your car

By Harry Guinness

Fetch robot picking up dry erase marker off of table

This helpful robot uses a camera to find items for people with dementia

Pink clover meadow and blue sky.

This lawn-mowing robot can save part of your yard for pollinators

Two researchers standing next to Quori humanoid robot

A fleet of humanoid, open-source robots could change robotics research

Concept art of NASA EELS snake robot on icy surface of Saturn's moon, Enceladus

NASA hopes its snake robot can search for alien life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus

centipede robot

To build a better crawly robot, add legs—lots of legs

By Charlotte Hu

Stunt or sinister: The Kremlin drone incident, unpacked

Stunt or sinister: The Kremlin drone incident, unpacked

By Kelsey D. Atherton