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The Navy’s version of a Roomba inspects billion-dollar ships for damage

The Navy’s version of a Roomba inspects billion-dollar ships for damage

By Kelsey D. Atherton

The best robot mops will clean your home and and eliminate hassle.

The best robot mops

By Billy Cadden

Watch this Navy drone take off and land on its tail like a rocket

Watch this Navy drone take off and land on its tail like a rocket

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Garmi aid robot attending to seated patient in lab

Meet Garmi, a robot nurse and companion for Germany’s elderly population

Small flying robot perched atop cactus

This bumblebee-inspired bot can bounce back after injuring a wing

Corn stalk leaf measuring robot parked in front of field

The corn leaf angle measuring robot is more useful than you think

Meadow grasshopper sitting on blade of grass

Leaping robots take physics lessons from grasshoppers

Soft robot inspired by gecko and inchworm moving across surface

This tiny robot grips like a gecko and scoots like an inchworm

a modified F-16 in flight

Why DARPA put AI at the controls of a fighter jet

The Icefin robot under the sea ice.

A torpedo-like robot named Icefin is giving us the full tour of the ‘Doomsday’ glacier

By Charlotte Hu

The bow of the RMS Titanic, almost 12,500 feet under the ocean.

Watch never-before-seen footage of the Titanic shipwreck from the 1980s

By Laura Baisas

Hand holding up drone disguised within taxidermy bird body

Researchers are stuffing drones into taxidermy birds to make them seem more ‘natural’

a cuttlefish in darkness

Cuttlefish have amazing eyes, so robot-makers are copying them

By Charlotte Hu

Robot painted portrait of Frida Kahlo

This robot can create finger paintings based on human inputs

Underwater snake robot from MIT

This robot eel could be the start of a new breed of ‘voxel’ robots

Quadcopter drone propelling itself underwater in swimming pool

This amphibious robot can fly like a bird and swim like a fish

Bat hanging upside down from branch

Bat-like echolocation could help these robots find lost people

Russia’s robot tanklet is being pitched as an anti-armor tool

Russia’s robot tanklet is being pitched as an anti-armor tool

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Infrared heat comparison photo of vine robot moving towards heat source

This heat-seeking robot looks and moves like a vine

Four legged robot running alongside man on sandy beach

This Korean robodog proves running on sand isn’t just for ‘Baywatch’

A new artificial skin could be more sensitive than the real thing

By Charlotte Hu

cornell soft robot

A squishy new robot uses syringes and physics to mosey along

By Charlotte Hu

Graphic of click beetle and robotic actuators

Acrobatic beetle bots could inspire the latest ‘leap’ in agriculture

Boston Dynamics Atlas bipedal robot tossing toolbag up to human on construction scaffolding in warehouse

Boston Dynamics’s bipedal robots can throw heavy objects now

drone on branch

It’s not a UFO—this drone is scooping animal DNA from the tops of trees

By Charlotte Hu

Scientist holding syringe next to wheeled robot with biological sensor

This robot gets its super smelling power from locust antennae

The US Navy used solar-powered Saildrones to scout in the Persian Gulf

The US Navy used solar-powered Saildrones to scout in the Persian Gulf

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Robot putting golf ball across indoor field into hole

Meet Golfi, the robot that plays putt-putt

Australia’s stealthy military drone sub will be called Ghost Shark

Australia’s stealthy military drone sub will be called Ghost Shark

By Kelsey D. Atherton

volcano erupting

Monitoring volcanoes that could explode? A drone is on it.

By Charlotte Hu

Side-by-side images of four-legged robot dog scaling a wall

The newest robot dog can scale walls and ceilings

Winged bird robot landing on wooden perch during test flight

Watch this bird-like robot make a graceful landing on its perch

Green flying snake resting on tree branch looking at camera

Flying snakes could inspire a new generation of airborne robots

This fossil-sorting robot can identify millions-year-old critters for climate researchers

This fossil-sorting robot can identify millions-year-old critters for climate researchers

By Charlotte Hu

How a robotic arm could help the US Army lift artillery shells

How a robotic arm could help the US Army lift artillery shells

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Purple sea urchins underwater releasing eggs and sperms during the mating process

Sea urchin sperm is surprisingly useful to robotics experts

By Lauren J. Young

xiaomi's cyberone robot drumming

Watch this little drummer bot stay on beat

By Charlotte Hu

Three Tmsuk spider robots meant for sewer system inspections and repairs

Spider robots could soon be swarming Japan’s aging sewer systems

Magnetic microrobots could zap the bacteria out of your cold glass of milk

By Charlotte Hu

Hair clips inspired the design for these land- and sea-based robots

Hair clips inspired the design for these land- and sea-based robots

Humanoid robot bracing itself against a wall in balance experiment with human researcher standing behind it in lab setting

Brace yourself for smarter robots that don’t fall over (as easily)

Armed police robots will be a threat to public safety. Here’s why.

Armed police robots will be a threat to public safety. Here’s why.

By Kelsey D. Atherton

This robot’s delicate touch scoops up liquid droplets without causing a splash

This robot’s delicate touch scoops up liquid droplets without causing a splash

MIT swarm robots constructing object using voxel building blocks

These robots can build almost anything—including clones of themselves

Four-legged robot walking across pile of boards and building materials during mobility test

This agile robot dog uses a video camera in place of senses

map of europe and a globe

Meta’s new AI can use deceit to conquer a board game world

By Charlotte Hu

Blue robotic arm in factory working on assembly line with plywood materials

Workplace automation could affect income inequality even more than we thought

manta ray-inspired swimming robot

How engineers taught a manta ray-inspired robot the butterfly stroke

By Charlotte Hu

Onlookers film and photograph Boston Dynamics' Spot robot at a showcase

Boston Dynamics starts a legal dog fight with competitor Ghost

Amazon Sparrow robot sorting products into boxes at warehouse facility

New robot moves Amazon towards increased warehouse automation

Pillbug curled into ball

Scientists developed a microrobotic finger that can tickle a bug

Springtail insect under the microscope

One of nature’s tiniest acrobats inspired a leaping robot

Code as Policies robot demo at Google AI event

Google is testing a new robot that can program itself

By Harry Guinness

Quadrupedal robot with arm attachment walking across grass

AI can teach robot dogs tricks for cheap

hydrogel swimming robot

Watch this penny-sized soft robot paddle with hydrogel fins

By Charlotte Hu

Harvard robotic arm with tentacle filaments gripping succulent plant

This spooky robot uses inflatable tentacles to grab delicate items

Two armed laundry folding robot folding a t-shirt

Meet the world’s speediest laundry-folding robot

ping pong paddle and ball

Google is training robots to interact with humans through ping pong

By Harry Guinness

ART turtle robot on the grass

ART, the turtle robot, gets by swimmingly in water and on land

By Sara Kiley Watson

Walgreens Retail Store Exterior at night

Your upcoming Walgreens prescription may be refilled by a machine

Tesla Optimus robot prototype dancing on stage

Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot can shuffle across stage, ‘raise the roof’

The Navy’s robot pilots could one day outnumber its human ones

The Navy’s robot pilots could one day outnumber its human ones

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Cassie bipedal robot running on relay track

This robot broke a Guinness World Record for the 100-meter dash

An AI called Dragonfly is helping design faster-charging batteries

An AI called Dragonfly is helping design faster-charging batteries

By Harry Guinness