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Walmart thought building robots to track stores' inventories would make things easier, but the project ultirmately fell short.

Walmart Is Giving Up on Its Inventory Robots

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Army is developing a series of Robotic Combat Vehicles armed with powerful weapons that can semi-autonomously navigate a battlefield.

US Army Readies Robot Tanks Fitted With Chainguns, Missile Launchers

By Dan Robitzski

A top British general speculated that in the 2030s, robot soldiers could make up as much as a quarter of the British army.

Top General Says “Robot Soldiers” Could Make Up 25 Percent of British Army

By Dan Robitzski

A new robotic arm wraps around and grabs onto objects like a snake or a robot's trunk, allowing it to safely handle delicate objects.

Unsettling Robot Grips Like an Elephant’s Trunk

By Dan Robitzski

The "Osampo Kanojo" is meant to recreate the look, feel, sound, and smell of talking a stroll while holding hands with your partner.

Scientists in Japan Build Robot to Hold Hands With Lonely People

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers from the University of Bristol visited the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant last week to test out Spot, a four-legged robodog.

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Scientists Send Boston Dynamics Robodog Into Chernobyl

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Disney researchers have built a terrifying animatronic robot bust to literally replicate the "gaze" of a human in order to appear more lifelike.

Disney Builds Horrifying Skinless Robot With Terrifyingly Human Eyes

By Victor Tangermann

The Los Angeles fire department rolled out the first firefighting robot in the US, allowing teams to put out a fire in the city "from inside."

This Firefighting Robot Looks Absolutely Awesome

By Victor Tangermann

Boston Dynamics will sell accessories for its robodog Spot, including charging bricks, camera kits — and even a prehensile arm.

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Oh No: Boston Dynamics Will Start Selling Arms For Its Robodogs

By Victor Tangermann

In a world's first, a team of scientists at Purdue University has built a tiny flipping microrobot that can be operated inside a colon of a living animal.

Scientists Drive Tiny Robot Around Inside Living Butthole

By Victor Tangermann

Robot manufacturer Agility has built a human-like robot called Digit that can load boxes onto a truck — and the company is now selling it for $250,000.

Headless Box-Stacking Robot Ready to Be Enslaved for $250,000

By Victor Tangermann

Firefighters across the West Coast are dropping special fireballs from drones to keep an unusually severe wildfire season under control.

Firefighters Are Using Drones That Drop Fireballs

By Victor Tangermann

China has released a video of a test involving an array of 48 weaponized drones launching from the back of a truck and from a helicopter.

Brutal Chinese Weapon Launches Swarm of Explosive Suicide Drones

By Victor Tangermann

Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot

Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego have built a squid robot that can propel itself through water just like the real thing.

This Swimming Squid Robot Looks Absolutely Amazing

By Victor Tangermann

The UK military has created a drone that's equipped with two shotgun barrels and a "machine vision" system to identify targets indoors.

UK Military Develops Drone With a Double Barreled Shotgun

By Victor Tangermann

New demonstrative Toyota robots show how warehouse-like technology could help seniors keep up on housework like the dishes.

Toyota Built a Robot to Do Grandpa’s Dishes

By Dan Robitzski

Despite all of Amazon's claims to the contrary, warehouse workers suffer extremely high rates of injuries, and impossible quotas and robots make it worse.

Injuries Went Up When Amazon Deployed Warehouse Robots

By Dan Robitzski

Cornell scientists developed a robot so tiny that it's invisible to the human eye — and they say it could someday hunt for cancer inside your body.

This Robot Is So Tiny You Could Fit Ten of Them on a Single Period

By Dan Robitzski

The smart doorbell company Ring just announced a drone that flies around and records video inside your home. It sounds like a privacy nightmare.

Amazon Announces Security Drone That Flies Around Your Home

By Dan Robitzski

Watch Japan’s 60 Foot Gundam Robot Take a Gigantic Knee

Watch Japan’s 60 Foot Gundam Robot Take a Gigantic Knee

By Victor Tangermann

During its latest drone delivery trial, retail giant Walmart started delivering at-home COVID-19 tests in North Las Vegas.

Walmart Is Delivering COVID Tests Via Drone

By Victor Tangermann

Walmart just kicked off its own drone delivery pilot, a collaboration with Flytrex, an end-to-end drone delivery company.

Walmart Just Started Delivering Stuff With Drones

By Victor Tangermann

Two major convenience store franchises in Japan are testing out robots capable of stocking shelves using two creepy hands with three "fingers" each.

Stores In Japan Are Stocking Shelves With Remote-Controlled Robots

By Victor Tangermann

Anduril, a defense-tech startup founded by Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey, has unveiled a new drone called the Ghost 4.

New Military Drone Fits in Backpack, Can Carry Lasers, Radio Jammers, Weapons

By Victor Tangermann

The Air Force deployed four-legged "robot dogs" to defend its perimeters during a recent field test, as The Drive reports.

US Military Deploys Robot Dogs to Guard Air Force Base

By Victor Tangermann

The Trump Administration's de facto ban on Chinese-made drones has prevented the Interior Department from starting controlled burns to limit forest fires.

Leaked Memo: Trump’s Chinese Drone Ban Made Wildfire Season Worse

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon Prime Air, the retail giant's drone delivery company, was designated an "air carrier" by the Federal Aviation Administration today.

Amazon Gets Permission to Start Making Drone Deliveries

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has issued a mea culpa in the case of a drone photographer who was told to stop filming at the company's Giga Texas construction site.

Elon Musk: Tesla Security Was “Overzealous” In Kicking Out Drone Photographer

By Jon Christian

Researchers at Harvard built a tiny microscale surgical robot, only about the size of a tennis ball, which was inspired by origami.

This Miniature Surgery Robot Was Inspired by Origami

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have built a tiny microbot that weighs less than a gram and can run entirely on methanol, a type of alcohol.

Relatable: This Tiny Robot Is Powered by Alcohol

By Victor Tangermann

These Robots Can Store Energy in “Fat Reserves,” Like Humans

These Robots Can Store Energy in “Fat Reserves,” Like Humans

By Victor Tangermann

The Air Force wants to test its artificial intellgience-driven drones in "some sort fo air-to-air" against human fighter pilots.

Air Force Pilots Are About to Do Battle With Autonomous Drones

By Dan Robitzski

A recently uploaded video shows Japan's 60-foot Gundam robot taking its first tentative steps — despite still missing its head.

Watch a 60-Foot Mecha-Style Robot Take Its First Steps

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to San Francisco-based startup Formant, you can remotely a control a Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog to go for a stroll.

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This Site Lets You Control an Actual Boston Dynamics Robodog With a PlayStation Controller

By Victor Tangermann

Using a new toolkit that scientists are calling a "robot hotel," a robot just scanned the outside of the International Space Station for coolant leaks.

NASA Is Using a Robot to Search for Leaks Outside the Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

South Korea Encourages Mask Wearing With Massive Drone-Powered Light Show

South Korea Encourages Mask Wearing With Massive Drone-Powered Light Show

By Victor Tangermann

The in-development science-fiction movie "b" will be the first feature-length ilm to feature a robot as the lead performer.

Hollywood Just Cast a Robot Actress in a $70 Million Movie

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers from Université de Sherbrooke in Canada have created a badass waist-mounted hydraulic arm that's capable of smashing through walls.

Watch a Badass Wearable Robot Arm Hulk Smash Through a Wall

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Harvard have created a tiny cockroach-inspired robot that is only about the size of a penny and weighs only 0.3 grams.

Watch Harvard’s Penny-Sized Robot Scuttle Around Like a Cockroach

By Victor Tangermann

A cafe in Daejon, South Korea has hired a robot barista to take care of making and busing drinks around to avoid spreading the coronavirus.

This Cafe Is Using a Robot Barista to Avoid Spreading COVID

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are working on a swarm of tiny, cell-sized robots that can travel inside a patient's bloodstream and target cancer cells.

Scientists Disguise Cancer-Hunting Nanorobots as Blood Cells

By Dan Robitzski

In order to make space missions cheaper and safer, Japan is considering replacing astronauts with humanoid telepresence robots.

Japanese Startup Wants to Replace Astronauts With Space Robots

By Dan Robitzski

New Zealand-based robotics company Rocos just shared a video of how Boston Dynamics' dog-like robot Spot could give agriculture workers a hand.

Watch a Robot Dog Herd Sheep on a New Zealand Farm

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at MIT have developed a Jedi mind control system that allows you to control a drone by just twisting and lifting your forearm.

This System Lets You Fly a Drone With Arm Gestures

By Victor Tangermann

Robot manufacturer Boston Dynamics has found a job for its robot Spot mini amidst the coronavirus outbreak: a teleconferencing platform for medical staff.

Hospitals Are Using iPads to Turn Robot Dogs Into Doctors

By Victor Tangermann

In collaboration with a drone maker, the Westport, Connecticut police department is testing "pandemic drones" that monitor if people are social distancing.

US Police Testing “Pandemic Drones” That Monitor Social Distancing

By Victor Tangermann

In an entertaining video, a caffeine enthusiast picks up a Starbucks coffee with his drone — to the bemusement of a barista.

Watch This Madlad Pick Up a Starbucks Coffee Using a Drone

By Jon Christian

A video shows a Boston Dynamics Spot Mini robodog put on a show while wearing a pair of basketball shorts and a hoodie. It's a hell of a show.

Watch a Robodog Twerk in a Baggy Hoodie and Basketball Shorts

By Victor Tangermann

Here are some of the most incredible drone videos to capture the enormous public loneliness of empty cities, cleared out by the coronavirus.

The Haunting, Beautiful Drone Footage of Cities Under Quarantine

By Jon Christian

As people are urged to stay in their homes, one man in Cyprus decided to use a remote-controlled drone to walk his dog around town.

Watch a Man Walk a Dog Using a Drone

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers have developed technology that allows a drone to dodge obstacles, including basketballs flung at high speeds.

Watch This Drone Expertly Dodge a Careening Soccer Ball

By Victor Tangermann

To give massively overworked healthcare workers a much-needed break, China tried something new: by staffing an entire field hospital with robots.

China Opened an Entire Hospital Staffed by Robots

By Victor Tangermann

Police in Spain are using drones to broadcasting messages that urge people to go home and quarantine themselves.

Spanish Police Using Drones to Yell at People Breaking Quarantine

By Dan Robitzski

The Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway (MTR) Corportation rolled out a disinfecting robot to clean subway trains using "vaporised hydrogen peroxide."

Hong Kong Is Using Robots to Disinfect Subway Trains

By Victor Tangermann

With a speaker and four microphones, a drone was able to echolocate and map out its surroundings similarly to how bats do it.

Engineers Built a Drone That Echolocates Like a Bat

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers at Tsinghua University in China have created a liquid metal material to build robots that is so light, it can float on water.

Scientists Want to Build Robots out of Floating Liquid Metal

By Victor Tangermann

Would having a robot draw your blood make the process easier? Thanks to engineers at Rutgers University that may soon be an option.

Engineers Built an AI-Powered Robot to Take Your Blood

Researchers and ethicists are once again pushing back against AI-enabled sex robots marketed as a replacement for human relationships.

Researcher Warns That Sex Robots May Cause Psychological Damage

By Dan Robitzski

The University of Tehran unveiled the latest iteration of its humanoid robot: Surena IV. Now it's capable of drilling holes and holding phones for selfies.

Video Shows Iran’s Humanoid Robot Drill Through Wall, Snap Selfie

By Dan Robitzski

New video shows a pair of Boston University bots in action — expertly working together to grill hot dogs and park them in rolls.

This Hot Dog Cooking Robot Is the Beginning of the End

By Jon Christian

Australia Wants to Help NASA Build Space Station Using Robots

By Victor Tangermann

"Mythbusters" legend Adam Savage has built a one-person rickshaw carriage so that his Boston Dynamics Spot robot can lug him around.

Watch a Robodog Drag Adam Savage Around in a Goth Rickshaw

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have built what they claim to be the first living robots called "xenobots" that can move, pick up objects, and even heal themselves.

Scientists Build “First Living Robots” From Frog Stem Cells

By Victor Tangermann