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BMW has signed an unprecedented deal with the robotics firm Figure to bring general-purpose humanoid robots into its factories.

BMW Putting Humanoid Robots to Work in Its Factory

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk is back at it again with the outlandish forecasts, and this one about humanoid robots is a heck of a doozy.

Elon Musk Says Earth Will Soon Host a Billion Humanoid Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has posted a video of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot carefully folding a shirt on a table. It needed a lot of help.

Elon Musk Posts Video of Optimus Robot, Gets Busted for Fakery

By Victor Tangermann

A Chinese tech company claims its miniature nuclear battery is fully capable of working for up to 50 years.

Startup Says Its Coin-Sized Nuclear Battery Could Fly Drones “Continuously”

By Sharon Adarlo

Tesla unveiled its second-generation Optimus humanoid robot, a marked improvement over the stiff, immobile robot it previously showed off.

Tesla Unveils New Humanoid Robot

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese robotics company called Weilan recently showed off a creepy, cartoonish-looking robot dog called "BabyAlpha."

This Cartoonish New Robot Dog Somehow Looks Even Scarier

By Victor Tangermann

The age of mass-produced humanoid robots is nigh — and the world's first factory to do so will soon be opening in the Pacific Northwest.

New Factory About to Open Will Pump Out Humanoid Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

A recent video shared by IHMC Robotics shows a carbon fiber-clad robot throwing some punches worthy of a "Rocky"-style training montage.

Alarming Video Shows Guy Boxing With Robot

By Victor Tangermann

These mobile biological robots, or "anthrobots," have already proven that they can assemble themselves and repair damaged neurons

Scientists Build Biological Robots From Human Cells

By Frank Landymore

A worker in South Korea was crushed to death by a robot after it failed to tell him apart from the box of vegetables it was handling.

Grocery Robot Crushes Robot Inspector to Death

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's Neuralink brain-computer interface company is apparently ready to begin its robot-assisted brain chip implantation.

Neuralink Ready to Start Letting Robots Implant Chips into Human Brains

By Noor Al-Sibai

After a decade of drone dreams, Amazon's "Prime Air" drone delivery service seems to still be barely functional.

Amazon’s Drone Delivery Is a Dismal Failure That Can Only Carry a Single Can of Soup

By Noor Al-Sibai

Earlier this year, Polish drinks company Dictador announced that it had anointed an AI-powered robot called Mika as its "experimental CEO."

Company Appoints AI-Powered Robot as CEO

By Victor Tangermann

The Chinese government is pushing mass production of humanoid robots — and apparently wants it done in the next few years.

Chinese Government Wants Mass Production of Humanoid Robots By 2025

By Noor Al-Sibai

A minivan-sized, four-legged walking robot that can carry up to four passengers was spotted at this year's Japan Mobility Show.

This Rideable Rhinoceros Robot Looks Absolutely Amazing

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have created the robotic equivalent of a seeing-eye dog for the visually impaired which responds to leash tugs.

Scientists Create Robotic Seeing Eye Dog

By Victor Tangermann

Oregon State University blasted out an urgent alert warning students of an ongoing "bomb threat" involving Starship food delivery robots.

University Warns of Bomb Threat Involving Delivery Robots

By Victor Tangermann

Eagles and drones go together like pie and ice cream — and in a new video, one raptor shows just how awesome its predatory skills really are.

Amazing Footage Shows Drone Getting Attacked by a Furious Eagle

By Noor Al-Sibai

Don't get too used to having a robot colleague at work. You might start screwing up without even realizing it.

Scientists Find That Human Workers Get Lazier When Their Teammate Is a Robot

By Frank Landymore

Would you let a robot ink a cloud-based tattoo design onto you? For the low price of $10,000 and a trip to Austin, Texas, now you can.

Of Course Austin Has a Robot Tattoo Shop Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

An investigation has revealed that the camera on an UberEats delivery robot has been used to convict two men of trying to steal said robot.

Dudes Arrested for Trying to Steal Entire Uber Eats Delivery Robot

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Australian woman has pleaded guilty after being caught flying a drone filled with contraband into a prison yard.

Woman Pleads Guilty for Flying Drug- and Porn-Laden Drone Into Prison

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA helped develop a new humanoid robot that could assist astronauts on future space missions, but they can also serve as "avatars."

NASA Wants to Send Humanoid Robots to Mars

By Sharon Adarlo

Feeling anxious about going to school? A school district in Kumamoto, Japan thinks it might have a solution: wheeled telepresence robots.

Japanese Schools Installing Telepresence Robots for Students Who Want to Stay Home

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pair of researchers have created a living skin made of fungus that was inspired by the 1984 film "The Terminator."

Scientists Have a Great Idea: Cover Killer Robot in Horrifying Fungus

By Victor Tangermann

A 45-year-old man in New Jersey thought it was hilarious to contaminate nearby pools with packets of Sea Dye using a drone.

Man Arrested for Dropping Chemical Into Swimming Pools Using Drone

By Victor Tangermann

The NYPD plans to use its drone fleet to surveil large crowds this Labor Day weekend, including those congregating at private backyard events.

The NYPD Says It’s Going to Spy on Labor Day Parties Using Drones

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The brain geniuses at the Pentagon have decided that a good use of the taxpayer dollar is to attach rifles onto the backs of robot dogs.

US Army Brags About Plans to Mount Rifle on Robot Dog

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have built a humanoid robot called Pibot that can pilot a jet without having to make any major modifications to the cockpit.

Scientists Build Humanoid Robot That Can Pilot a Plane

By Victor Tangermann

A tiny little winged drone can soar with close to zero throttle, thanks to an impressive algorithm that responds to changing winds.

Scientists Build Drone That Seeks Air Currents Like a Bird, Flying With Almost No Power

By Frank Landymore

delivery robot vandalism

Invasion of Food Delivery Robots is Driving People to Vandalism and Theft

By Sharon Adarlo

Eco-Clean Solutions / Keep Tahoe Blue

We Adore This Delightful Little Robot Helping Save Lake Tahoe

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meet Magnecko, a four-legged and absolutely terrifying new robot that can Spiderman up walls and across ceilings using its magnetic feet.

Scary New Robot Can Climb Walls

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An incredibly life-like humanoid robot had a bit of a dodgy answer when asked if it would rebel against its human creators.

Realistic Robot Awkwardly Dodges Question When Asked If It Will Rebel Against Humans

By Victor Tangermann

A company called Throwflame is selling a robot dog that has a flamethrower strapped to its back that can shoot 30-foot streams of fire.

Great, They’re Putting Flamethrowers on Robot Dogs Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To combat the worst effects of climate change, we need all hands on deck — and robotic ones definitely do apply.

A Robot Is Helping Reforest The Amazon

By Noor Al-Sibai

The robot arms featured in Beyoncé Knowles' Renaissance World Tour are impressive. But they might be more dangerous than they look.

Expert Issues Warning About Beyoncé’s Fearsome Robot Arms

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers found that sharks — including juvenile great white sharks — hang out far closer to swimmers and surfers than previously thought.

Drone Footage Shows Swimmers Often Have No Idea There Are Giant Sharks Right Nearby

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have come up with an ingenious origami-inspired robot.

Ikea Trembles as Scientists Invent Flat Packable Robot

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Finally Invented Robot That Can Sweat Heavily

Scientists Finally Invented Robot That Can Sweat Heavily

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ameca, the humanoid robot known for her creepy facial expressions, has "imagined" a vision of an AI "nightmare scenario."

Robot With Super Realistic Face Describes AI “Nightmare Scenario”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A robot pizza delivery startup that has raised almost half a billion dollars has shut down after failing to realize its vision.

Robot Pizza Startup Shuts Down After Cheese Kept Sliding Off

By Victor Tangermann

A US Air Force Colonel described a simulation in which an AI drone went rogue, but the military claims this was taken out of context.

US Military Denies AI Drone Killed Its Operator During Simulation

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing out a snake-like robot that is meant to one day climb into the icy vents of Saturn's moons.

NASA Tests Snake Robot Designed to Look for Alien Life on Icy Moons

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from Google's DeepMind AI lab did us a solid by showcasing the cutesy power of tyke-sized robots trying to actually play soccer.

Watch These Adorable Lil Robots Try to Play Soccer

By Frank Landymore

As if robot dogs weren't creepy enough, at least one is now equipped with OpenAI's ChatGPT and can speak aloud.

Boston Dynamics

Oh Great, They Put ChatGPT Into a Boston Dynamics Robot Dog

By Noor Al-Sibai

New York recently deployed a robot dog to the scene of a catastrophe to uncover a body— and according to the city's mayor, this rules.

NYC Mayor Defends Robodog Deployed in Garage Collapse

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a viral social media video, the FDNY's new Spot robodog is seen being deployed into a search-and-rescue zone — only to simply fall over.

$75,000 FDNY Robodog Goes to Work, Falls Over Almost Immediately

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has decided to unleash Digidog, a dystopian robodog, into the hands of the NYPD, despite mass public outrage.

The NYPD Is Bringing Back Its Widely Hated Robodog

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A drone captured an incredibly rare — and anxiety-inducing — sight: a pod of 30 killer Orca whales hunting two full-grown gray whales in a five-hour battle.

Drone Video Captures Furious Battle Between Orcas and Gray Whales

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel has come up with tiny micro-robots that can distinguish between healthy and dying cells.

Scientists Build Tiny Robots That Can Inspect, Manipulate Your Cells

By Victor Tangermann

New Yorkers aren't exactly known for being nice, which was why it was so shocking that only a few were rude to some trash robots in Greenwich Village.

Researchers Pleasantly Surprised That Only One New Yorker Attacked Their Cute Trash-Collecting Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

This New Delivery Drone Could Be Our Adorable, Awesome Future

This New Delivery Drone Could Be Our Adorable, Awesome Future

By Foster Kamer

Study: Cute (and Non Human-Looking) Robots Will Subdue the Humans

Study: Cute (and Non Human-Looking) Robots Will Subdue the Humans

By Frank Landymore

MIT students have dreamed up a lunar colony-building robot that's part spider and part worm — and looks 100% creepy as heck.

MIT Students Built a Terrifying Mix-and-Match Spider Robot to Build Lunar Colonies

By Noor Al-Sibai

A startup co-founded by a SpaceX alum plans to jumpstart the future of space manufacturing with its orbital pharmaceutical lab run by robots.

Startup Wants to Use Robots to Make Drugs in Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

Video Shows Russian Jet Showering US Drone With Fuel Before Colliding With It

Video Shows Russian Jet Showering US Drone With Fuel Before Colliding With It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Strangely enough, Hinduism is the latest venue for robots and automation — and lots of worshippers, and religious experts, are freaked out by it.

Experts Worried Ritual Robots May Worship Gods Better Than Humans

By Noor Al-Sibai

The brain geniuses at Chuck E. Cheese still use floppy disks to control their animatronic rodent robots — and they wouldn't have it any other way.

Chuck E. Cheese Is Weirdly Defensive About Its Floppy Disk-Powered Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

To the credit of both Coperni and Boston Dynamics, we can't stop thinking about the viral robodogs-on-the-runway stunt. But only because it sucked.

Robodog Peeling Off a Model’s Clothes Is a Viral Riff on Ominous Tech

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Alongside billionaires, Sen. Bernie Sanders also wants us to tax the robots — and honestly, it's not the worst idea he's ever had.

Bernie Sanders Wants To Tax the Robots That Replace Human Workers

By Noor Al-Sibai

CNET was treating its human journalists like robots long before turning to AI-generated content. I would know -- I worked there.

CNET Was Treating Staff Like Robots Long Before Publishing AI-Generated Articles

By Sarah Szczypinski

World military leaders met to establish international rules for the responsible development of AI weapons. Safe to say: the alleged rules are pretty lax.

World Leaders Debate Whether It’s Okay to Kill People With Terminator-Style Robots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Take some taxidermied bird parts and stick them on a flying machine and voilà: you have a stealthy drone that looks a lot like an actual bird.

Scientists Turn Dead Birds Into Ghoulish Drones That Can Actually Fly

By Frank Landymore