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The Air Force built a robot called ROBOpilot that can take off, fly, and land existing planes without help from a human pilot.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

A sex robot created by DS Doll Robotics is incredibly life-like, adding credence to predictions that we may be headed to a future rife with "digisexuals."
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

Starup Starship Technologies plans to deploy its autonomous delivery robots on 100 college campuses within the next 24 months.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

DARPA's Subterranean Challenge is kicking off today, and robotics teams from across the nation are mapping underground environments with robots.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) set out with an ambitious task, to build a robodog which combined all the best parts of Siri, 3D-printing, and robots like Boston Dynamics SpotMini.
Boston Dynamics

By Jacob Banas

Russia is sending a semi-autonomous, gun-savvy robot to the International Space Station next Thursday. They hope the Russian bot will help build Moon bases.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's Ministry of Defense just released the first footage of its Sukhoi-S70 Okhotnik-B (Hunter-B) unmanned combat air vehicle taking flight on August 3.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

A new roach-like robot out of UC Berkely can withstand the weight of a person stepping on it and scuttle at a speed of 20 body lengths per second.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

MOZI 2, a solar-powered drone with a wingspan of 15 meters, just successfully completed its maiden flight, according to Chinese media reports.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

A new deep-sea robot called Aquanaut can "transform" between being an autonomous submarine and a mermaid-like humanoid robot.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists from the University of California San Diego created a robotic contact lens that can zoom in and out when you blink.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

The U.S. military says it downed an Iranian drone using a new directed-energy weapon — but Iran is denying to incident even took place.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

Just one inning into the "robot umpire" Trackman's major league debut, a human coach decided to pick a fight and got ejected from the game.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Georgia Tech researchers have built tiny microbots that move in response to vibrations — and they could one day attack diseases in your body.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

DARPA assembled a team called Squad X that uses robots to scout out a battlefield before human soldiers engage in combat.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Boston Dynamics is back in the news promising that it will start mass-producing and selling its SpotMini robot soon, but the details keep shifting.
Boston Dynamics

By Dan Robitzski

A company called Throwflame is about to start selling a $1,500 fully-functional flamethrower attachment for drones on Thursday.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

A new "flying saucer" drone design uses half the propellers of a typical quadrotor drone, letting it fly for twice as long.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Australian futurist Richard Hames told news.com.au that he believes we're overdue for a drone assassination and that one will take place within three years.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

MIT's Baxter robot uses its ability to mimic human motions to tackle the viral #bottlecapchallenge in a decidely different way.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

A haptic feedback vest could help working dogs perform their jobs better than before by issuing specific commands through controlled vibrations.
Robot Dogs

By Dan Robitzski

Robots might one day steal the right to raise children away from humans, according to author and AI ethics expert John C. Havens.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

To train more handy robots, scientists built "adversarial objects" — small, die-like figures that are as difficult to grasp as possible.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Watch as a glider-style drone composed of five mini-drones inspired by tiny seed pods bursts apart in mid-air to deliver its payloads.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

A robot arm called the Jaco can attach to the wheelchairs of people with limited upper mobility and help them better manage everyday tasks.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Research scientist Janelle Shane trained a naming AI to conjure up new monikers for self-aware spaceships like those in author Iain M. Banks' Culture books.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

Soldiers in Afghanistan will be the first in the United States military to use its pocket-sized Black Hornet recon drones.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

By embedding engineered bacteria into the fingers of a robot arm, researchers have created a biohybrid bot that can "taste" for certain chemicals.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

Harvard's RoboBee X-Wing takes the RoboBee to the next level by sporting solar cells and an extra pair of wings for more stable flight.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

Toyota's basketball robot CUE3 just set the Guinness World Record for "most consecutive basketball free throws by a humanoid robot (assisted)."
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

That drone that Iran shot down was a super-spy behemoth that carries up to $90 million worth of surveillance equipment while flying for 34 hours at a time.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Prototypes of killer robots are already in development and could be ready for action within two years, according to a new Vox story.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

Robot Fish Can Swim For 37 Hours With Blood-Powered Batteries
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

A parody robot video imagines what might happen if a powerful bot decided to take revenge on the engineers testing its "robustness."
Boston Dynamics

By Kristin Houser

A semi-autonomous robot can go in and dismantle decommissioned nuclear reactors, handling some of the tricker tasks on its own.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Drones can now dodge objects thrown at them thanks to a combination of artificial intelligence and event cameras, an advanced type of sensor.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

a new companion robot called Irony Man was programmed to be ironic and sarcastic to better match how humans talk, but it doesn't know when to stop.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Uber is officially starting to make Uber Eats food deliveries by drone as part of a limited trial in San Diego this summer according to Bloomberg.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

Doctors might soon prescribe insurance-covered sex robots to patients, says one clinical psychologist — and it could spell the end of civilization.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

Walmart executives have great things to say about their new robot workers, but human employees are less than thrilled about them.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

A robot sloth is expected to hang out in forest canopies with real slothes for months at a time, clinging to wires and tracking the environment.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert told the audience at re:MARS he thinks the company's SpotMini robodogs could one day battle for our entertainment.
Boston Dynamics

By Kristin Houser

Here Are Some Headlines for This Incredibly Boring Robot Video
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

MIT scientists built a new algorithm for self-piloting "roboats" that let them automatically latch together to form robot barges.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Robert Downey Jr. Wants to Clean Up Earth With Robots and AI
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

Swedish furniture maker IKEA is partnering with American startup Ori to create a line of robotic furniture to help people save space in small apartments.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

A tank-like killer robot can navigate and track targets without needing a human operator in the immediate area, but humans still need to pull the trigger.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia announced a new hydraulic, quadrupedal robot dog, and showed the bot pulling a three-ton airplane.
Robot Dogs

By Jacob Banas

UC Berkeley's Salto robot is fast, agile, and smart — traits that would make the bot terrifying if it weren't less than a foot tall.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

DARPA has officially funded a program to come up with a brain-machine interface headset that could allow soldiers to control drones with their minds.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

Stanford University students have unveiled a nimble robot dog called Doggo and shared the details on how a person could replicate their creation.
Robot Dogs

By Kristin Houser

Facebook has lifted the curtain on its robotics research, sharing details on three projects in a newly published blog post.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

An engineer built a robot that tries to punch him in real life while he fights a digital robot in a virtual reality video game.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers built a four-winged flying robot called Bee+ that weighs just 95 grams with a footprint smaller than a penny.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from Japan and the U.K. have created a leech-like robot that's soft, flexible, and able to move freely on a wall.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

A new truck built for the Chinese military is capable of launching up to 12 drones, sort of like a smart, precision artillery strike.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese food manufacturers have deployed taste-testing robots and artificial intelligence to make sure that the food is high-quality and authentic.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

The Florida Keys are about to use drones to find and kill mosquitos breeding in remote pools of standing water instead of sending expensive helicopters.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

San-Francisco-based aerospace startup Elroy Air built a giant cargo drone that can carry 500 pounds of cargo for 300 miles at a time.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

Drones’ Batteries Could Last Longer if They Could Perch Like Birds
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

In IHMC Robotics' new video, its humanoid robot Atlas autonomously traverses suspended wooden planks and wobbly cinder blocks.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

Produce grown by startup Iron Ox's robot farm is now available for purchase, a futuristic example of how technology is transforming agriculture.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

Watch This “Police Robot” Pull a Car Over
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

No matter how cute or emotionally-savvy some robots may seem, experts warn that it's an illusion. Artificial intelligence simply isn't that sophisticated.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski