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A team of engineers developed a new artificial skin for prosthetic limbs or robots that actually forms bruises whenever it gets bonked or damaged.

Health & Medicine

Robot Skin Now Gets Bruised When Punched, Horrifyingly

By Dan Robitzski

Tencent Robotics X Lab, a Chinese robot maker, has unveiled a terrifying new "novel wheel-legged robot" that can backflip using its tail.

Robots and Machines

Watch This Terrifying Segway on Steroids Backflip Using Its Tail

By Victor Tangermann

Hawaii Cops Spent COVID Relief Funds on Robot Dog

Hawaii Cops Spent COVID Relief Funds on Robot Dog

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

South Korean tech giant Samsung has teased its new domestic household helper robot at this year's virtual-only CES — and it's called "Bot Handy."

Watch a Samsung Robot Load Dirty Dishes Into the Dishwasher

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are trying to figure out if we can send robots that are made out of ice to another planet

Scientists Want to Send a Robot Made of Ice to Another Planet

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists modified a Boston Dynamics Spot robot that they say could explore Mars to find a suitable location for a human outpost.

Boston Dynamics

NASA Suggests Sending Boston Dynamics Robodog to Mars

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI algorithm called RoboGrammer can design robot bodies that are optimized for specific tasks or crossing specific terrain.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Engineers Built an AI That Design Its Own Robots

By Dan Robitzski

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AI legal expert Frank Pasquale says that Asimov's laws of robotics are outdated, and he has some ideas for new ones to supplement them.

Robots and Machines

Professor: Asimov’s Laws Are Outdated and It’s Time to Write More

By Dan Robitzski

Bioethicist Nancy Jecker argues that sex robots catered to their specific needs could provide much-needed companionship to lonely senior citizens.

Bioethicist: We Should Give Sex Robots to Lonely Seniors

By Dan Robitzski

The FBI is commissioning a fleet of 140 robots to help manage a warehouse where it keeps billions of sensitive paper files.

The FBI Is Buying 140 Robots to Handle Paper Records

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

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

Scientists built tiny sensors that can safely detach and fall to the ground after a moth carries it to some hard-to-reach destination.

Robots and Machines

Scientists Want to Use Moths to Blanket the Earth in Tiny Sensors

By Dan Robitzski

Computer Scientist: AI Can’t Flourish Without a Physical Body

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Scientist: AI Can’t Flourish Without a Physical Body

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

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

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

Scientists managed to make a robot out of an edible gel that could improve veterinary care and make for new children's toys.

Yum, Delicious: Inventors Built an Edible Robot

By Dan Robitzski

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

Xenobots mark a major step forward in biological robots. The tiny, short-lived creatures are designed in a virtual world then 3D printed with living cells.

Scientists Are Printing Living “Xenobots” out of Biological Cells

By Dan Robitzski

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

To cut down on risky human contact, doctors in Washington State are using robots and video conferences to monitor their coronavirus patient.

American Doctors Are Treating a Coronavirus Patient With a Robot

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

Finally, a Smart Robot That Can Cook and Serve Us Hot Dogs

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.

Robots Decorate Trees, Perform Carols in Store’s Holiday Display

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.

Robot Bartender Developer Wants to Pay the Humans It Replaces

By Dan Robitzski

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

Artificial Intelligence

This Psychologist Wants to Create Day Care Centers for Robots

By Kristin Houser

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

To Make Robots Perform Better, Make Them Constantly Fear Death

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.

Watch a Pack of MIT’s Mini Robots Cavort in Autumn Leaves

By Victor Tangermann

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."

Sophia the Robot Tells Crowded Room That It Doesn’t Have Sex

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.

An Alien-Themed Brothel Just Bought a Sex Robot

By Dan Robitzski

This startup's plan is to send swarms of smart robots to the surface of a distant moon and planets to extract resources including water ice and minerals.

Meet the Startup Building Robot Swarms to Mine Ice on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The 1982 sci-fi film "Blade Runner" takes place in November 2019. Needless to say, our tech fell a teensy bit short of what the movie predicted.

Artificial Intelligence

“Blade Runner” Was Set This Month. Where Are Our Flying Cars?

By Dan Robitzski

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

Watch MIT’s Robot Cubes Self-Assemble Into Structures

By Kristin Houser

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.

This Company Invented a Sex Robot That Breathes

By Dan Robitzski

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

Russia’s Semi-Autonomous Robot Tanks Were Utterly Useless in Syria

By Dan Robitzski

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.

Startup: We’ll Pay You $125,000 to Turn Your Face Into Robot Skin

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists Built Tiny Robots Powered by Muscles and Nerves

By Dan Robitzski

Former Googler Laura Nolan warns that the military should never use fully-autonomous weapons, lest they accidentally spark a war.

Former Google Engineer: Killer Bots Could Commit “Mass Atrocities”

By Dan Robitzski

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

Why a Former Military Drone Pilot Now Steers Burrito Delivery Bots

By Dan Robitzski

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

Robots Could Build Martian Settlements by Imitating Humans on Earth

By Dan Robitzski

People seem to love knocking over and attacking robots, especially those security robots, which is a totally cool and good thing to do, writes Wired.

Robots and Machines

Wired: It’s Time for War Between Humanity and Machines

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.

Kids Are Becoming Emotionally Attached to Robots

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force built a robot called ROBOpilot that can take off, fly, and land existing planes without help from a human pilot.

Instead of New Drones, the Air Force Built a Plane-Piloting Robot

By Dan Robitzski

Russia is sending a semi-autonomous, gun-savvy robot to the International Space Station next Thursday. They hope the Russian bot will help build Moon bases.

Russia’s Gun-Shooting Robot Is Heading to the Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

A Chinese city has deployed police robots to help human officers deal with traffic problems, marking another way the nation is using tech to maintain order.

Artificial Intelligence

China Deploys Its First Robot Traffic Police

By Kristin Houser

Most people would rather lose their job to automation than to another human, according to a newly published study out of Germany.

Most People Would Rather a Robot Steal Their Job Than a Person

By Kristin Houser

A new deep-sea robot called Aquanaut can "transform" between being an autonomous submarine and a mermaid-like humanoid robot.

A New Deep-Sea Robot Can Shape-Shift Into an Autonomous Submarine

By Dan Robitzski

Just one inning into the "robot umpire" Trackman's major league debut, a human coach decided to pick a fight and got ejected from the game.

Baseball Coach Ejected for Fighting With Robot Umpire

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA assembled a team called Squad X that uses robots to scout out a battlefield before human soldiers engage in combat.

DARPA’s “Squad X” Teams Up Soldiers With Scout Robots

By Dan Robitzski

Boston Dynamics is back in the news promising that it will start mass-producing and selling its SpotMini robot soon, but the details keep shifting.

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Says It’ll Sell Robots, But Won’t Give Any Details

By Dan Robitzski