World’s first mass-produced humanoid robot wants to solve China’s aging population problem
It's a major step up in robotics.
Tag: robot
Morphobot: this robot can move like a rover and fly like a drone
It's was inspired by some animals' diverse mobility skills
This new robot chef can recreate recipes just from watching food videos
It’s a big step towards automation of cooking.
Researchers create centipede robots that can save people from earthquake rubble
The more legs a robot has, the better. At least sometimes.
Meet ARTEMIS, the world’s fastest humanoid robot that trains to play soccer
It maintains stability even when violently shoved or disturbed.
This firefighting robot could help human firefighters escape danger unscathed
If there is a fire emergency, here is a firefighter robot that will go in first. So that human firefighters ...
Six major tech companies pledge not to weaponize AI, but will politicians follow their lead?
With AI and robots becoming increasingly capable, such pledges are more and more important.
NASA wants to build a swarm of tiny, wedge-shaped robots to look for life on faraway worlds
How to look for life on unfriendly bodies like Europa or Enceladus? Just make a bunch of swimmy robots and ...
Robots that read human body language promise to boost productivity without taking our jobs
Body language detection marks a new paradigm shift in human-robot interactions in an industrial setting.
A group of students creates a graffiti-drawing robot, and it’s quite good at making art
It's not perfect, but it's a start!
Chewing and tasting as you go is the skill robots need to be better cooks — and this bot learned to do it
We're one step closer to having auto-chefs worth their salt!
Pompeii enlists robot dog to inspect the ancient’s city streets
A new solution for a pretty old place.
These hard-bodied robots can reproduce, learn and evolve autonomously
Virtual code has become virtual DNA.
The swarm is near: get ready for the flying microbots
Scientists have developed minute artificial muscles to power Lilliputian drones.
Fields in North America will see their first robot tractors by the end of the year
So far, they will be limited to plowing -- but not for long!
This cafe in Japan has robot waiters controlled remotely by disabled workers
It started as an experiment and it's grown ever since, showing remarkable potential
Drones can elicit emotions from people, which could help integrate them into society more easily
Joy, sadness, fear, anger, and surprise were the easiest to recognize.
Spanish companies team up to create the first paella-cooking robot
Maybe, uhm, robots aren't so bad after all.
This robot hears with the ears of a locust
When biology and human technology come together.
Autonomous robot swarm swims like a school of fish
These underwater robots operate as a collective artificial intelligence.
A robot near you might soon have a tail to help with balance
My pets already have them so why not?
These are the droids we’re looking for: A new robot can assemble a pizza in under a minute
The aptly named PizzaBot 5000 can crank out pizzas all day long.
Chewing robot developed to test gum as a potential drug delivery system
That's a new one for robots.
Robot teches itself to do sutures by watching YouTube videos
Robots are far away from replacing doctors, but they're still nifty.
Robotic, seahorse-inspired tail can help people maintain balance through sickness or hard work
Cosplay enthusiasts rejoice!
Slothbot slowly, but surely monitors the environment
Scientists were inspired by the sloth -- the master of energy conservation -- to design a hyper-energy-efficient robot.
MIT’s newest, diminutive robot can do backflips and outrun you in every single way
It's cool, it's small, it can do a backflip off the wall.
Japanese hotel fires robots to replace them with humans
They took our jobs! Uhm... no wait... we took their jobs!!
Researchers design the first soft robot that moves like a plant
Which is to say, slowly!
Nuclear-powered ‘tunnelbot’ could probe the depths of Europa’s oceans
Europa's almost as cold as your ex's heart, just as frozen.
MIT designs and builds a plant-robot plantborg that can move towards light
Its name is Elowan and it probably comes in peace.
Japanese builder-bot offers glimpse into the construction site of the future
No more heavy lifting.
Novel system allows robots to learn new skills just by looking at you do it
Can it teach them how to love, though?
Tiny, new-generation robot can walk on land, water, or swim — while being downright adorable
This cutesy bot hides a lot of potential.
Supposed health benefits of sexbots have no meat to them, new study says
The science isn't in yet that sexbots benefit society in any way.
Gecko-inspired adhesive allows robots to grip wider range of objects
The new gripper can grasp almost anything from pipes to porous rocks. Its primary application might be space.
NASA Explores the Use of Robotic Bees on Mars
Marsbees could cover a lot more ground on the Red Planet than sluggish rovers.
Walmart silently filed a patent for robotic bees meant to pollinate crops
As bee populations dwindle, robots are made to take their place.
A demonic robo-wolf is now protecting Japanese farmlands
The scarecrow of the 21st century.
[WATCH] Some ignorant human trying to stop a door-opening robot dog
Boston Dynamics' SpotMini takes a beating -- but went through either way.
Scottish supermarket hires bot, sacks him after only one week, says retail robots “unlikely”
Named Fabio, the robot made a definite impression with his colleagues.
New “soft robots” are strong enough to lift heavy weights, delicate enough to pluck a raspberry
The new generation of robots is softer and gentler.
Robot learns like a toddler to predict future outcomes in its environment
Taking inspiration from babies, this machine learns to predict seconds into the future.
World’s first molecular robot could usher in a whole new age of miniaturization
Nanoscience just got a whole lot more interesting.
Artificial muscle lifts 1,000 times its own weight, brings us closer to humanoid bots
A step closer to forging our new robotic overlords.
MIT designs robot to be a good pedestrian and not bump into you on the sidewalk
It's had hours upon hours of simulation training to learn the basics.
A robotic Buddhist priest can now perform funerals in Japan
It can live-stream funerals, too.
A history of how computers went from stealing your heart, to stealing your job
They changed our society from the ground up. And will do so again.
