One Japanese railway company build huge, humanoid robots to repair its power lines
I've never wanted to be a railway worker as much as I do right now.
Tag: robots
New four-legged robots designed to work together to accomplish difficult tasks
Teamwork makes the dream work.
Scientists observe nanobots coordinating inside a living host for the first time
We're talking swarms of millions of bots here.
Researchers train robot swarm to serve as ‘real-life paintbrushes’
Can robots play a part in producing art? This team believes so.
Half of Twitter accounts discussing ‘reopening America’ are bots
Researchers have uncovered a sophisticated campaign orchestrated to sow discord.
Talkative robots make humans chat too — especially robots that show ‘vulnerability’
Robots admitting to making a mistake can improve communication between humans -- at least during games.
Flying ‘Robotic pigeon’ brings us closer to bird-like drones
Engineers created PigeonBot, adding pigeon feathers to a flying robot
The world’s first ‘living machines’ can move, carry loads, and repair themselves
They can move, carry loads, and repair themselves.
Autonomous killer drone aims to save the Great Barrier Reef
Can we please call these things Star Destroyers? Please?
The Twitter discussion around vapes is grand — and 70% filled with bots
Welcome to selling strategies, where ethics are made up and your health doesn't matter!
Biology can help patch the flaws in our robots, metastudy reports
Life to the rescue!
Endowing AI with confidence and doubt will make it more useful, paper argues
More like us, in other words.
Knowing for the sake of knowing: algorithm developed to hardwire curiosity into robots
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but cats don't run on microprocessors. I think.
Your robot always dropping stuff? Try these gecko-inspired pads
A gripping tale.
This robot works six times faster than humans — and it’s putting jobs at risk
The time where we could speak about 'robots taking our jobs' at the future tense has passed.
First deep-sea mining operation scheduled to start in 2019 — here are the bots that will do it
Whether you agree to the idea or not, the bots sure are awesome.