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

Expert: Future Robots Could Steal Your Children

By Kristin Houser

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

Engineers Build “Adversarial Objects” to Confuse Grabby Robots

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.

This Bizarre Drone Splits Into Five Mini-Drones Mid-Air

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.

This Robot Arm Can Help Wheelchair Users Drink Coffee, Open Doors

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.

This AI Gives Other AIs Names Like “Ass Federation” And “Hot Pie” Because Robots Can Be Weird Too

By Kristin Houser

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

US Army Announces First Deployment of Its Pocket-Sized 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.

Robot Arm Uses Bacteria in Its Fingers to “Taste” Its Environment

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.

This Minuscule Robotic Bee Only Uses Solar Energy to Fly

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)."

Watch Toyota’s Basketball-Playing Robot Set a World Record

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.

Before Iran Shot It Down, the US’s $130M Drone Spied on the World

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.

Experts: It’d Be “Relatively Easy” to Deploy Killer Robots by 2021

By Kristin Houser

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

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

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."

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Watch a Robot Take Revenge in Brutal Boston Dynamics Parody

By Kristin Houser

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

New Robots Can Safely Decommission Nuclear Reactors

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.

Watch This Drone Expertly Dodge Stuff Thrown at It

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.

Scientists Built a Robot With a Sense of Irony. It’s Insufferable

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.

Uber Eats Will Start Making Drone Deliveries This Summer

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.

Expert: Doctors Will Soon Prescribe Sex Robots to Patients

By Kristin Houser

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

Walmart Employees Hate Their New Robot Coworkers

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.

Scientists Built a Robot Sloth to Study Other Sloths

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.

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Boston Dynamics CEO Wants Its Robodogs to Fight Each Other

By Kristin Houser

Here Are Some Headlines for This Incredibly Boring Robot Video

Here Are Some Headlines for This Incredibly Boring Robot Video

By Kristin Houser

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

Amsterdam Is Paying MIT to Develop Robot Barges For Its Canals

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

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.

IKEA Wants to Sell You Robotic Furniture for Your Tiny Apartment

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.

This Tank-Like Machine Gun Robot Is Straight out Of “Terminator”

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.

Watch a Super-Strong Robot Dog Pull a Three-Ton Airplane

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.

This Adorable Bouncing Robot Would Be Terrifying if It Was Huge

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.

DARPA Wants Soldiers to Control Drones With Their Thoughts

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.

Stanford Team Tells You Exactly How to Build a Robot Dog

By Kristin Houser

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

Facebook Finally Unveils Secret Robotics Projects

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.

This Robot Bludgeons You With Boxing Gloves While You Play Games

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.

Tiny Spies: This Insect-Like Flying Robot is Smaller Than a Penny

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.

Watch a Leech-Like Robot Crawl Its Way up a Wall

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.

Chinese Military Truck Launches Killer Drones Like Artillery

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.

Taste-Testing Robots Are Optimizing Food in China

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.

Florida Officials Are Using Drones to Kill Mosquitoes

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.

This Giant Cargo Drone Can Carry 500 Pound Pods Hundreds of Miles

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

Watch This Hulking Robot Play “The Floor Is Lava”

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.

Futuristic Robot Farm Begins Selling Its First Produce

By Kristin Houser

Watch This “Police Robot” Pull a Car Over

Watch This “Police Robot” Pull a Car Over

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.

Expert Warns Against Forming Emotional Attachments With Robots

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's new counter-drone technology is a low-cost drone that acts like a battering ram, knocking hostile quadcopters out of the sky.

Russia Built a Battering Ram Drone to Knock Drones out of the Sky

By Dan Robitzski

NASA recently tested a new drone swarm, where "Hives" release "Cicadas" to monitor the weather and atmospheric conditions.

NASA’s “Hive” Drones Can Deploy Swarms of Tiny Robot Cicadas

By Dan Robitzski

Boston Dynamics has debuted the version of its SpotMini robot dog that it plans to actually sell to consumers — but it has yet to announce a price tag.

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Boston Dynamics Unveils SpotMini You’ll Actually Be Able to Buy

By Kristin Houser

When the Notre Dame blaze got too dangerous for humans to continue battling, the Paris Fire Brigade called in a firefighting robot named Colossus.

See the “Colossus” Firefighting Robot That Helped Save Notre Dame

By Kristin Houser

A humanoid robot TV news anchor dubbed Alex just read the news on Russia 24, a state-owned television channel, yesterday.

Russia Built a Grotesque Robot Newscaster and Put It on TV

By Victor Tangermann

This Attack Helicopter Can Launch Drones From Midair

This Attack Helicopter Can Launch Drones From Midair

By Victor Tangermann

Watch a Pack of Boston Dynamics’ Creepy Robot Dogs Pull a Truck

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Watch a Pack of Boston Dynamics’ Creepy Robot Dogs Pull a Truck

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is paying a team of scientists to build an inflatable robot that can move and grasp things by selectively inflating chambers that act like muscles.

NASA is Building Inflatable Robot Astronauts

By Dan Robitzski

An employee shares his experience working with Walmart robots, which are supposed to make his job easier but instead add to his workload.

This Grouchy Employee Hates Walmart’s New Floor-Scrubbing Robots

By Kristin Houser

Australian scientists are preparing to deliver millions of coral larvae to the Great Barrier Reef using an autonomous drone called "Larvalbot"

Undersea Robots Are Helping Save the Great Barrier Reef

By Dan Robitzski

Walmart is sending autonomous custodial robots to 1,500 stores in a play to cut down on the tasks human employees have to face.

Walmart Is Rolling Out Floor-Cleaning Robots in 1,500 Stores

By Dan Robitzski

Passerine's drone uses its bird-like legs to jump into the air, overcoming a design flaw that plagues many other fixed-winged aircraft.

This Drone Takes off by Leaping With Bird-Inspired Legs

By Kristin Houser

Meet the People Fighting Back Against Militarized Killer Robots

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's weapon maker Almaz-Antey built a drone that can fire a semi-automatic 12 caliber shotgun. Video footage shows the thing in action.

Watch Russia’s New Shotgun-Wielding Drone in Action

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Military Is Hiring Hackers to Kill Small Drones

The U.S. Military Is Hiring Hackers to Kill Small Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Toyota's basketball-playing robot, Cue 3, isn't about to replace athletes, but it does herald a new era of incredibly-precise machinery.

Toyota’s Basketball Robot Can Nail Three-Pointers

By Dan Robitzski

A small robotic idol can listen to people's troubles and recite relevant passages from religious texts. Its creator says it could keep the elderly company.

This Robot Reads the Bible to Old People in Nursing Homes

By Dan Robitzski

UPS Is Now Using Drones to Deliver Blood to a Hospital

UPS Is Now Using Drones to Deliver Blood to a Hospital

By Kristin Houser

Evolutionary robotics could give rise to machines that program their offspring, so to speak, using their own code and programming.

Scientists Are Teaching AI-Powered Robots to Reproduce, Evolve

By Dan Robitzski

Google has once again revitalized its robotics program, focusing on simple machines powered by powerful AI instead of humanoid robots.

Google’s Revived Robotics Department Prioritizes Powerful AI

By Dan Robitzski

To save money on future missions, Japan's space agency is working to develop remote-controlled robots that can handle menial or dangerous tasks in space.

Japan Wants to Send Telepresence Robots to Space

By Dan Robitzski