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An event in Beijing drew hundreds of competitors from around the world in what's being described as the first ever Robot Olympics.

Hundreds of Robots Competed in the World’s First Robot Olympics. The Results Were Unintentionally Hilarious

After beating Elon Musk's Tesla with automakers like BYD and Li Auto, Chinese tech firms are now setting their sights on robotics.

Elon Musk Is Getting Destroyed by Yet Another Chinese Company

A team of researchers have designed a robot module that "consume" other robots to sustain itself and build bigger robots.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Create Prototype of Robot Designed to Cannibalize Parts of Other Robots and Build Them Into Itself

By Frank Landymore

A video making the rounds on social media shows a humanoid robot flailing its arms and legs, seemingly trying to break free of a harness.

Alarming Video Shows Experimental Fighting Robot Thrashing Uncontrollably

By Victor Tangermann

The type of advanced AI that Isaac Asimov imagined in fiction is finally here. And it's flunking his Three Laws of Robotics.

Artificial Intelligence

Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics

By Victor Tangermann, Jon Christian

The world's first wireless bionic hand, built by Open Bionics, can be fully detached and operate on its own.

Health & Medicine

New Bionic Hand Can Detach From User, Crawl Around and Do Missions on Its Own

By Frank Landymore

Chinese robotics manufacturing is far outpacing the rest of the world, with over 276,000 robots going online between 2022 and 2023 alone.

Experts Alarmed by China’s Enormous Army of Robots

Microsoft has released a new generative model, dubbed Magma, that can autonomously control robots. What could go wrong?

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Shows Off AI That Can Control an Entire Robot

By Victor Tangermann

The internet is flooded with videos of robot dogs meeting real, furry puppies, who seem horrified to have come across a canine abomination.

Real Dogs’ Reaction to Robodogs is Terrifying

By Ashley Bardhan

Two researchers have harnessed the power of OpenAI's GPT-4o large language model to teach two $120 robot arms to clean up spills.

ChatGPT Can Now Control a Robot Arm

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have grown living skin in a lab and attached it to a robotic face, so that it can create rudimentary facial expressions.

Scientists Attached Living, Lab-Grown Skin to a Robot’s Face and It Looks Like It Craves the Sweet Release of Death

By Jon Christian

The robot, dubbed "Emo," uses cameras in its eyes to predict your smile less than a second before it actually appears.

Alarming Robot Anticipates Your Smile, Returns Horrific Imitation

By Frank Landymore

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

Scientists developed a robotic technique to make people who have no history of mental illness hallucinate voices that are not there.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Say This Weird Robot Can Make You Hear Voices That Don’t Exist

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

Scientists built a brain monitor that can be deployed through a tiny hole in the cranium and unfold like a flower between bone and brain.

Neuroscience and Brain

Brain Monitor Enters Hole in Skull, Deploys Flower-Shaped Electrodes

By Sharon Adarlo