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Criminals are using drones to drop items infected with swine flu on herds of pigs in order to force farmers to sell the animals cheaply.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

An engineer strapped propellers onto a robot vacuum, creating the ultimate abomination: a Roomba that kicks up more dust than it cleans.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers taught an artificially intelligent robot to cook and serve hot dogs by training it in a virtual setting and then an actual grill.
Robot Dogs

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at North Carolina State University are exploring if drones can be used to monitor the growth of Christmas trees in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

Engineers built a soft robotic bug capable of surviving harsh punishment like being flattened, stomped, and folded. It's creepy, but a huge step forward.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

CIMON-2, the new version of the International Space Station's (ISS) bizarre, spherical robot assistant, should be better at picking up on emotional cues.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Department store Bloomingdale's incorporated robots into its 2019 holiday window displays — and the whimsical scenes could foreshadow the future of retail.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

For the last six months, a highly-automated dairy farm has been floating off the coast of the Netherlands, providing city slickers with fresh milk.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Turkey's military expects to have its hands on the first Songars, a drone equipped with a machine gun, before the end of 2019.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

Makr Shakr, the company behind a robot bartender called Toni, says it will offer monthly stipends to displaced workers for every robot it sells.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

SoftBank Robotics has opened the Pepper PARLOR, a cafe where robots work alongside human staff to serve and entertain customers.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

The best way to help robots learn to deal with new challenges might be to let them explore the world like children do: in supervised day care centers
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

Japanese researchers have unveiled a quadruped robot that uses a combination of sensors and AI to climb straight up a ladder.
Robot Dogs

By Kristin Houser

A U.S. police force has tested the capabilities of a robot dog for the first time, but it's keeping mum on the exact details of the bot's use.
Boston Dynamics

By Kristin Houser

When a robot talked trash against its opponents, it hurt their feelings and they performed worse at a game researchers use to study human rationality.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed a drone (SQUID) that can be shot high up into the sky using a special cannon.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

In order to make robots more effective at their jobs, scientists suggest programming them with an inate fear of their own deaths.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Last week, Sophia the robot answered a question about love by saying it doesn't have sex. Now, Sophia's developers say the robot got confused.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Chilean protestors banded together to disable a hovering police drone using hundreds of consumer laser pointers in a dazzling concerted effort.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Asked whether it's ever been in love, Sophia the Robot told the crowd at the 2019 Web Summit that "No. I don't do sexual activities."
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

AI-AItech, the company behind a sex robot named Emma, plans to release a more realistic model that can walk, move its arms, and breathe in and out.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

In a video uploaded by MIT's Biomimetics department, nine Mini Cheetah robots can be seen rustling up some autumn leaves and doing the occasional backflip.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

China is actively selling killer drones to the Middle East, and one company is working to market its fully-autonomous robots.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

An alien-themed brothel in Nevada called Alien Cathouse just bought an AI sex robot to cater to clients with unusual fetishes.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Russian startup Promobot says it can create robot clones of any person, from Michael Jordan to William Shakespeare to you.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

A mysterious robotics company wants to buy the rights to someone's face so it can put them on its new line of virtual humanoid companion robots.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

MIT researchers have created a fleet of robot cubes that can move autonomously, climbing, spinning, and even jumping to form shapes.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

According to U.S. President Donald Trump, the military brought a robot along for the raid that led to the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

A team of surgeons from Charlotte, North Carolina have demonstrated new surgery robot technology by carving a jack-o-lantern and removing its seeds.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

Ford Patents Drone That Pops Out of a Car’s Trunk
Drones

By Kristin Houser

When deployed its remote-controlled robot tanks in Syria, the Russian military ran into all sorts of problems like delayed signals and inadequate sensors.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

OpenAI build an AI-powered robot hand that can solve a Rubik's cube more often than not, even when they started messing around with it.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

A local photographer used his heat-seeking drone to find a six-year-old boy who'd gotten lost in a cornfield in Minnesota.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. military is developing non-invasive technology that would allow soldiers to control drones with just their brain.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

A robodog does a push-up every time the Virginia Tech football team scores a touchdown, putting a high-tech twist on an old college tradition.
Robot Dogs

By Kristin Houser

Japan's biggest airline believes robot avatars are the future of travel, allowing people to visit far-off destinations without leaving their homes.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

Robots Could Be Performing a Third of U.S. Surgeries by 2021
Robotics

By Andy Palma

A woman tried to call for help via a Knightscope security robot covered in "police" markings, just to be told to step aside.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Startup Anduril has built an anti-drone quadcopter for the U.S. military that kills other drones by slamming into them at 100 miles per hour.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

Toyota, Japanese tech giant, is using virtual reality to teach a home helper robot how to fulfill random tasks around the house.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

Using a camera-equipped drone, police were able to track down a fugitive living in a tiny cave after escaping from a prison camp 17 years ago.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

The Russian military is poised to begin testing Belgorod, a submarine that can launch six thermonuclear warhead-carrying deep sea drones.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

The video uploaded by the Russia Defense Ministry shows the unusual combat drone aircraft take off next to a Russian S-57 advanced combat jet.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

Autoblow is taking pre-orders for its "Autoblow AI," which promises to harness the power of AI to provide users with the perfect oral sex experience.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

A new video uploaded by Boston Dynamics shows off the robotics company's humanoid robot called Atlas perform an impressive gymnastics routine.
Boston Dynamics

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers created an autonomous roofing drone by strapping a nail gun to an octocopter and using cameras and markers to teach it where to place nails.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

Alphabet-owned company Wing announced a partnership with FedEx and Walgreens to start making drone deliveries as soon as October.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann

The FBI arrested a man who used his drone to drop a homemade bomb on his ex's home, potentially heralding a terrifying era of futuristic, violent crimes.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built rudimentary soft robots that are controlled and steered by living neurons and muscles, just like a living organism.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

A critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin used a drone to fly his electronics out of his high-rise apartment prior to a police raid on his home.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created a robot fish that can "fly" up to 85 feet by shooting a steady stream of water out of its rear end.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

A new delivery drone called the Silent Arrow GD-2000 could replace military airdrops, delivering supplies by drones to battlefields at half the cost.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

On Friday, state broadcaster CCTV aired footage of traffic police using a drone to tell a scooter rider to put on his helmet, according to a newly published South China Morning Post story.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

An MIT-funded robotic agriculture project that promised anybody the instant ability to successfully grow food is snake oil, according to Business Insider.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

Companies like Postmates that have launched fleets of delivery robots still depend on human operators to occasionally grab the wheel.
Drones

By Dan Robitzski

In 50 Years, Your Romantic Partner Will Be a Robot
Robotics

By Andrew Tieu

A software company is making construction robots that learn to excavate and assemble structures by imitating human movements and may someday work in space.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

In a first-person view video uploaded to Twitter by Russia's space agency today, humanoid robot Fedor can be seen manning an electric drill.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

An Australian man has uploaded a video of himself hanging from a drone while fishing — and the whole stunt appears to have gone surprisingly well.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

Scientists found that lab-grown mini-brains on the International Space Station are giving off brain waves, potentially posing a new ethical dilemma.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

YouTube accidentally took down videos of robots fighting, claiming they included portrayals of animal violence and cock fighting.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

After a failed docking attempt over the weekend, Russia's humanoid robot Fedor is now on board the International Space Station.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Young children growing up around robots may need reminders that their metallic pals aren't really alive, lest they form unhealthy emotional ties.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Don't fly a drone with a weapon attached to it, stupid, warned the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration in a notice released publicly last week.
Drones

By Victor Tangermann