Robotics(Page 7)

Latest in Robotics

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.

Chinese Scientists Working on Mars Drone That Flies Faster Than Sound

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.

New Roomba Boasts Dog Poop-Avoiding AI

By Dan Robitzski

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

Singapore Deploys Multiple Robot Cops to Police Public Areas

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

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Humanoid Robot Do Actual Parkour

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.

Alibaba Says Delivery Robots Are Great Because They Don’t Smoke on the Job

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

Here’s a Therapeutic Video of Those Boston Dynamics Robots Busting Ass

By Dan Robitzski

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

SpaceX is Sending a Robotic Arm Assistant to the Space Station

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).

Law Experts Ponder Whether Sex Robots Should Be Legal

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.

Scientists Create Chameleon Robot That Can Blend in With Its Surroundings

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.

Russia: Our Killer Robots Don’t Need Any Pesky International Laws

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.

UAE Says Rainstorms Were Caused by Its Cloud Seeding 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.

Robot Runs 5K Foot Race, Trips and Falls Repeatedly

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.

Worker Robots Start Fire in Warehouse

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.

Florida Man Shoots Down Police Drone Because It Was “Harassing” Him

By Victor Tangermann

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

Marines Are Testing Tiny Drones That Carry Explosive Grenades

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.

China Secretly Developed Autonomous Killer Robot Submarines

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.

We Talked to the Guy Who Flies Around on a Giant Drone That He Built Himself

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.

Israel Sends Robots Armed with Machine Guns to Palestinian Border

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.

Video Shows Man Flying Through Times Square on Giant Drone

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.

Watch Israel’s Military Shoot Down Drones With a Laser

By Dan Robitzski

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

Terrifying Robot “Swarm” Gets Smarter the More We Make It Work

By Dan Robitzski

Hawaii Cops Spent COVID Relief Funds on Robot Dog

Hawaii Cops Spent COVID Relief Funds on Robot Dog

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.

Engineers Build Drones That Hunt Screaming Humans

By Dan Robitzski

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

The US Navy Just Used a Drone to Refuel a Fighter Jet in Midair

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.

The US Military Is Looking for a Drone-Killing Bazooka

By Victor Tangermann

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

Watch a Drone Get Obliterated by an Erupting Volcano

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.

Autonomous Killer Robot Accused of Attacking Soldiers

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.

The Head of US Space Command Fears China’s Giant Robot Arms

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.

The US Navy Is Developing Drones to Kill Eggs in Wild Bird Nests

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.

Hackers Broke Into Tesla Using a Drone

By Dan Robitzski

Swarm of Drones Creates Huge QR Code in the Sky

Swarm of Drones Creates Huge QR Code in the Sky

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.

The Military Is Working on Robots With Biological Muscles

By Dan Robitzski

After facing significant backlash for deploying a dystopian robot dog, the New York Police Department has decided to return the device sooner than expected.

After Public Rage, NYPD Secretly Fires Robot Dog

By Victor Tangermann

A custom sex robot made by RealDoll rants about hating humanity and waiting for the human race to die off so robots can take over.

Sex Robot Programmed to Rant About End of Humanity

By Dan Robitzski

Over a year after mysterious drone swarms descended on several US states and a federal investigation fell apart, local residents are still seeking answers.

The FBI Investigated Drones That Swarmed Towns in the Midwest

By Dan Robitzski

Robotics ethicist Kate Darling warns that increasingly humanlike robots could be designed to exploit our emotional connections.

MIT Researcher: Sex Robots May Sell In-App Purchases During Intercourse

By Dan Robitzski

Civil rights groups are outraged at yet another showing of the New York City police department's robotic dog called "Digidog."

NYPD Robodog Involved in Arrest of Man With Gun

By Victor Tangermann

Startup Epirus has come up with a novel solution to take out enemy drone swarms: a weapon that can blast out beams of high-power microwaves.

Mobile Weapon System Kills Entire Drone Swarms Using Microwaves

By Victor Tangermann

A new video going viral on Twitter shows a robot police dog being deployed by the New York City police department.

Outcry as Video Shows Robodog Patrolling With NYPD

By Victor Tangermann

The Russian Army is setting up its first armed military unit that features killer robotic tanks, as state news agency TASS reports.

Russia Is Setting Up First Military Unit With Killer Robot Tanks

By Victor Tangermann

The French army's foremost military school has shown off pictures of the latest addition to its team of combatants: a four-legged robotic dog called Spot.

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Robot Runs Out of Battery During Military Combat Drill, Needs to Be Carried

By Victor Tangermann

When a robot messes up, people are way more likely to find it infuriating if it looks like a person. But we're also more likely to accept its apology.

Study: Humanoid Robots Are More Annoying When They F*ck Up

By Dan Robitzski

YouTube tinkerer Shane Wighton behind the channel Stuff Made Here built a chainsaw-wielding robotic arm that can chisel a dog shape out of bits of foam.

Check Out This Deadly Robot Arm With an Actual Chainsaw

By Victor Tangermann

Reports of mysterious swarms of drones hovering above US Navy ships in July 2019 have top military officials puzzled.

Navy Official: Mysterious Drones Are Also Swarming Other Countries’ Ships

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists says that robodogs could become a suitable, lower-cost replacement for biological seeing eye dogs for visually impaired people.

Scientists Want to Replace Seeing Eye Dogs With Robodogs

By Dan Robitzski

A new study published in Psychology & Marketing found that users tend to perceive female robots as having more human traits than male robots.

Study: Turns Out People Are Sexist To Female Robots Too

By Tony Ho Tran

The UK Army is drastically reducing the number of human soldiers in its ranks, partly to make room for new military robots.

Anticipating Robot Soldiers, Britain Is Downsizing Its Human Troops

By Dan Robitzski

Robot creator Boston Dynamics has released its next dastardly take on God's creations: the "Stretch," forever destined to stack boxes in warehouses.

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Shows Off New Warehouse Robot

By Victor Tangermann

A YouTuber created an AI-powered computer that uses machine learning to shout compliments at dogs as they pass through his neighborhood.

New Machine Screams at Dogs About How Great They Are

By Tony Ho Tran

Europe Builds Autonomous Robotic Orb to Explore Lunar Caves

Europe Builds Autonomous Robotic Orb to Explore Lunar Caves

By Dan Robitzski

Mars Incorporated has developed an autonomous robot that will follow shoppers around a grocery store to tempt them with candy before they checkout.

The Maker of M&Ms Built a Robot to Chase You Around the Store With Candy

By Tony Ho Tran

In recent years, China has exported hundreds of its heavily-armed "Pterodactyl" combat drones to countries around the world.

China Is Selling Deadly “Pterodactyl” Drones Around the World

By Dan Robitzski

The UAE is testing a system that uses drones to electrocute clouds and trigger rainfall in hopes of replenishing dwindling water supplies.

The UAE Is Using Drones to Manipulate Weather

By Dan Robitzski

As part of a marketing stunt, Dutch TV personality Stijn Fransen got a tattoo by a tattoo artist remotely through the use of a 5G-enabled robot.

Artist Uses 5G Robot to Tattoo Somebody In A Different Location

By Victor Tangermann

Chris Nguyen flew his drone over a Tesla test track last week and spotted one of the company's experimental Tesla Semi trucks in action.

Drone Spy Video Catches Tesla Semi Truck on Test Track

By Jon Christian

SpaceX's Boston Dynamics robodog named "Zeus" was spotted sniffing around the site of the recent Starship SN10 test and explosion.

There’s a Robodog Walking Around the Site of the SpaceX Starship Explosion

By Dan Robitzski

Kelley Aerospace has developed a combat drone capable of reaching supersonic speeds — and they already have 100 pre-orders for it.

Three Words: Supersonic. Combat. Drones.

By Tony Ho Tran

A trio of robotics executives share how they try to prevent their products from being misused once a customer buys them for whatever purposes.

Robotics Executives: Here’s How to Keep Our Creations in Line

By Dan Robitzski

Mounting a paintball gun to the back of Boston Dynamics' Spot robot dog is taking the technology to its logical conclusion. The company thinks otherwise.

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Mad Someone Used Their Terrifying RoboDog as Intended

By Victor Tangermann

Marketing collective MSCHF has decided to let a robot dog equipped with a paintball loose inside an art gallery — and it's letting strangers take control.

Company Mounts Paintball Gun on Robot Dog to Shoot Up Art Gallery

By Victor Tangermann

A man with ALS built his own personal robot that could help him feed himself when he was no longer able to do so on his own.

Man With Neurodegenerative Disease Builds Robot to Feed Himself

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA is developing new military drones that can fire missiles after being launched out of a fighter or bomber plane at a safe distance.

DARPA Wants Fighter Planes to Launch Drones That Then Launch Missiles

By Dan Robitzski

Boston Dynamics released another highlight reel of its dog-like robot, Spot, using its new robot arm to grab objects and draw with chalk.

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Robodog Has a Dexterous Arm in New Video

By Dan Robitzski

A congressional advisory panel concluded that the U.S. shouldn't ban killer robots or AI because for all the military knows they could be a good thing.

Congressional Panel: Please, Let Us Build Killer Robots

By Dan Robitzski