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Meta aired a rather bizarre Super Bowl ad for its Quest 2 virtual reality headset, in which it compared its customers to a thrown away animatronic.
Robot Dogs

By Victor Tangermann

The Department of Homeland Security is deploying robodogs to patrol the country’s southern border and report any immigrants attempting to cross.
Robot Dogs

By Tony Ho Tran

The United Arab Emirates has announced a total ban on flying consumer drones anywhere within the country after last week's deadly attacks in Abu Dhabi.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

China claims to have built the "world's largest quadruped bionic robot," a gigantic "mechanical yak" that can carry over 350 pounds at a shambling 6.2 mph.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

A pizza-making robot startup experienced a bit of a cheesy mishap: a prototype of the machine sprayed cheese everywhere across the street from SpaceX HQ.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

Just over a month after an MIT professor warned of "slaughterbots" being used by civilians, Vice is now reporting that cartels are using them to drop bombs.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

The US Department of Defense has helped develop technology that allows a single person to control 130 drones for military operations.
Drones

By Tony Ho Tran

A drone carrying a defibrillator saved a 71-year-old Swedish man's life after he suffered a heart attack while shoveling snow in December.
Drones

By Tony Ho Tran

UK-based robotics company Engineered Arts made a big splash with a teaser video of its expressive humanoid robot. Now, it's back for an interview.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

Police in Israel may soon have autonomous drones that fly to locations where gunshots are detected, but Denver police can't prove the tech even works.
Drones

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have created a jetpack-wearing humanoid robot — that also has a creepy, doll face.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

People Disturbed by Robot With Ultra-Realistic Human Face Expressions
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

UK-based robotics company Engineered Arts has shown off an impressive new humanoid robot that can put on some eerily realistic facial expressions.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

Imagine sitting down at your favorite breakfast restaurant only to be greeted by a robot, not a human.
Robotics

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In response to the so-called "labor shortage," companies are looking to finally replace replace workers with machines.
Robotics

By Noor Al-Sibai

FCC commissioner Brendan Carr went on a Twitter rant this week about robodogs, citing apocalyptic science fiction movies and television
Robot Dogs

By Jon Christian

In a new viral video captioned "this man is living in 2030," a person can be seen zipping along a public road, riding on top of a high-powered drone.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

Miso Robotics is moving on to the next step of its world robotics domination plan with the Flippy Wings, dubbed "Wingy," which can deep fry wings.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

MIT engineers installed a new system in the robot, dubbed the "mini cheetah," that allows it to jump across gaps in the terrain.
Robotics

By Tony Ho Tran

Sergio’s Restaurant, a restaurant chain in Florida, began using a Servi robot that uses cameras and laser sensors to bring food to the customers’ tables.
Robotics

By Tony Ho Tran

Former US general Stanley McChrystal warns that AI with the power to launch lethal strikes is inevitable, even if the idea is frightening.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Experts say installing a gun on a robodog marks an inflection point in the development of killer robots — and maybe the tech shouldn't be allowed at all.
Robot Dogs

By Jon Christian

The inevitable has happened. Somebody strapped an honest-to-God sniper to the back of a quadrupedal robot dog.
Robot Dogs

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Caltech have opened the doors to hell and allowed a creepy robot that can walk on two spindly feet and fly, to enter.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

Singapore has rolled out robot cops meant to catch residents in the act of not following social distancing guidelines — and Singaporeans are fed up.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

Drones literally started raining from the sky during a light show in Zhengzhou, a city of 10 million people in the Chinese province of Henan.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released dramatic footage from inside a hurricane recorded by a "Saildrone."
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

According to documents and video meeting recordings obtained by Vice, engineers aren't exactly thrilled by the $999 robot they came up with for Amazon.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

A raven in Canberra, Australia, decided it had enough of a local business sending coffee to a customer in the area via a Google delivery drone.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

Boston Dynamics Deploys Robot Guard Dog at Factory
Boston Dynamics

By Tony Ho Tran

An Israeli company has unveiled a remote-controlled, semi-autonomous robot that can be outfitted with two machine guns, cameras, and sensors.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Chinese scientists have developed a concept for a Mars drone that weighs 1,100 pounds and could travel at five times the speed of sound.
Drones

By Tony Ho Tran

iRobot, the makers of the Roomba robot vacuum, specifically trained the new model's AI to avoid running over dop poop and smearing it everywhere.
Robot Dogs

By Dan Robitzski

Two autonomous police robots are roaming the streets of Singapore looking for signs of trouble during a brief trial period.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Robot maker Boston Dynamics has released its latest video of its two-legged pioneer called Atlas performing some impressive parkour.
Boston Dynamics

By Victor Tangermann

The Chinese tech and e-commerce giant Alibaba is rolling out delivery robots to replace error-prone, smoke-break-taking human couriers.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

The latest Boston Dynamics video shows the humanoid robot Atlas jumping and flipping. Here's a cut of all the times it fell or tripped.
Boston Dynamics

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX is sending a Japan-made robotic arm to the International Space Station that could give astronauts a (mechanical) hand.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

As the technology behind sex dolls is rapidly advancing, legal experts are beginning to wonder how exactly they should be regulated (if at all).
Robotics

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists developed a rudimentary active camouflage system that adjusts color in real-time and tested it on a tiny chameleon robot.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

The Russian delegate to a UN conference argued that autonomous killer robots shouldn't be subject to any additional rules or regulations.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Dubai conjured up a much-needed rainstorm thanks to new drones that can fly around and create clouds on command through electrical shocks.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Cassie, a robot that looks just like a disembodied pair of legs, just successfully ran an impressive 5K on outdoor terrain.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Warehouse robots in London started a fire and disrupted thousands of grocery orders when they crashed into each other on the job.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

50-year-old Wendell Goney from Mount Dora, Florida, shot down a police drone, the property of the local Lake County Sherriff's Office, with a rifle.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

The Marines recently tested a small drone that can carry a live grenade across a battlefield, targeting and detonating precise targets.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

A newly declassified military program shows that China developed autonomous killer submarines in the 1990s and successfully tested them over ten years ago.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Hunter Kowald shares what it's like to design, build, and test a hoverboard before his stunt where he flew it through Times Square.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Israel has deployed a military robot called the Jaguar, which is armed with a machine gun, to the border of the Gaza Strip.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

A new video going viral on social media shows a helmeted daredevil shooting through Times Square in New York City — while flying on a hoverboard.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

The Israeli military just tested a plane equipped with a new laser weapon that's capable of burning through drones in midair.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

A gigantic swarm of autonomous warehouse robots becomes both more sophisticated and efficient the more individual robots are put to work.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Hawaii Cops Spent COVID Relief Funds on Robot Dog
Robot Dogs

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers are working on drones that can track people down based on the sound of their screams — scary-sounding tech that could save lives in a disaster.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

A drone just refuelled a US fighter jet in midair for the first time, the US Navy announced today.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

A drone just refuelled a US fighter jet in midair for the first time, the US Navy announced today.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

The Department of Defense has put out a call for designs of a handheld anti-drone weapon that could shoot down enemy drones from the ground.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

A YouTuber sent a drone to investigate an erupting volcano in Iceland. Unfortunately, the drone didn't survive the perilous trip.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

A UN report reveals that an autonomous kamikaze drone attacked and seemingly killed human soldiers without any human oversight pulling the trigger.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

China's new space station has a powerful robot arm attached, and US military leaders are concerned it could become a weapon.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

The Navy is testing autonomous drones that find and kill bird nests near air fields in order to prevent bird strikes from grounding planes.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers found a way to take over most of a Tesla's functionality just by broadcasting a WiFi signal from a drone hovering overhead.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Swarm of Drones Creates Huge QR Code in the Sky
Drones

By Tony Ho Tran

The US Army Reserach Laboratory is working on a new kind of versatile robot that moves around with biological muscles instead of wheels and motors.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski