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Move over, Mars rover — a new reptilian robot may one day crawl the Red Planet's barren shores in the name of discovery and research.

Scientists Prototype “Creeping” Lizard-Like Robot for Exploring Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Introducing: Mech "The Bot" Johnson, a human-driven, 9,000-pound, 13-foot-tall, 18-foot-wide robot "bouncer," deployed by a Las Vegas strip club during CES.

Robots and Machines

Strip Club Gets Huge Exoskeleton Suit to Turn Bouncers Into Hulking Behemoths

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Miso Robotics Flippy 2 robot can be a fry cook mostly on its own, and has already been picked up by a few chains across the country.

CEO Brags That Fry Cook Robot Will Replace Obsolete Human Grunts

By Frank Landymore

Mourners from across the country might have to queue over 24 hours just to get a glimpse of the Queen's coffin, but one artist claims to have a solution.

Deranged Scheme Proposes Mounting Queen’s Coffin on Robot Arm

By Frank Landymore

GM Cruise is losing $5 million every day, and a total of about $5 billion since 2018. Cruise has had multiple safety issues and accidents.

Advanced Transport

GM’s Robotaxis Are Losing a Fortune

By Lonnie Lee Hood

You might want to have the spidey-sense to stay away from this one: engineers at Rice University have turned dead spiders into “necrobotic” grippers.

Scientists Turn Dead Spiders Into “Necrobotic” Arachnoborgs

By Frank Landymore

A chess robot playing three games at once broke a 7-year-old boy's finger in a tournament that ended Thursday in Russia. Officials say the bot was confused.

Russian Chess Robot Breaks Child’s Finger During Tournament

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Twitter video of a four-legged robot dog with a gun strapped to its back went viral this week. Video shows the robot dog firing multiple rounds with recoil.

Hacker Mounts Submachine Gun on Robodog, Shoots Live Ammo

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Millionaires are just like the rest of us — when they need help repairing their Cold War-era radar units to detect UFOs, they turn to Reddit.

Millionaire Refurbishing Cold War Radar Unit to Hunt UFOs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at the University of Tokyo have created a fleshy and "slightly sweaty" robotic finger that is covered in a pink layer of living skin.

Scientists Create Robot “Finger” With Living Skin That Looks Like, Um

By Victor Tangermann

A new robot created at the University of Tokyo is so dextrous it can peel a banana without smushing it, using two arms with two fingers each.

Incredible! This Robot Is So Dexterous That It Can Perfectly Peel a Banana Without Damaging It

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have created a jetpack-wearing humanoid robot — that also has a creepy, doll face.

Scientists Built a Robot With Jetpacks and a Creepy, Doll-Like Face

By Victor Tangermann

Imagine sitting down at your favorite breakfast restaurant only to be greeted by a robot, not a human.

People Furious at Robot Serving Pancakes at Denny’s

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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This Futuristic Robot Arm Is a 3D Printer, Laser Engraver, and Much More

A new video shows a crew of Boston Dynamics robots busting some impressive dance moves, to the beat of The Contours' 1962 smash hit "Do You Love Me":

Boston Dynamics

Video Shows Boston Dynamics Robots Busting Impressive Dance Moves

By Jon Christian

Thanks to electrodes implanted in his brain, a man was able to feed himself with two robotic arms, controlling them with nothing more than his thoughts.

RX and Medicine

Watch a Quadriplegic Man Feed Himself With Two Bionic Arms

By Dan Robitzski

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

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The World’s First Cyborgs: Humanity’s Next Evolutionary Phase Is Here

By Alice Greczyn

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

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

A Dutch robot named MUSA has successfully performed supermicrosurgery on a human for the first time, which only a handful of doctors worldwide can do.

Health & Medicine

Meet MUSA, the Robot That Just Aced Supermicrosurgery for the First Time

By Foster Kamer

Sophia the Robot and Evan Rachel Wood sit in dramatic lighting

Robots and Machines

From Futurism Studios, “SophiaWorld” is Westworld Meets Reality

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

YouTube Accidentally Removed Robot Battle Videos for “Animal Cruelty”

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from Harvard's Wyss Institute developed a pair of stride-enhancing, wearable robotic shorts to make walking easier.

Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Built Robo-Shorts to Make Walking Easier

Researchers have developed a new Turing Test to determine when machines are able to not only think like humans, but act like us as well.

Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Robotics Forced Scientists to Invent a New Turing Test

By Kristin Houser

Silicon Valley startup Bumblebee Spaces suspends furniture from the ceiling to make tiny, espensive apartments feel more spacious.

Dystopian Startup Wants to Hang Your Furniture From The Ceiling

By Dan Robitzski

A robot arm called the Jaco can attach to the wheelchairs of people with limited upper mobility and help them better manage everyday tasks.

This Robot Arm Can Help Wheelchair Users Drink Coffee, Open Doors

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Army has set aside millions to invest in robotic exoskeletons that will make soldiers faster, stronger, and more resilient.

Prosthetics and Devices

The Army Is Spending Millions on Powered Exoskeletons

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers built a four-winged flying robot called Bee+ that weighs just 95 grams with a footprint smaller than a penny.

Tiny Spies: This Insect-Like Flying Robot is Smaller Than a Penny

By Victor Tangermann

An asrtist's rendering of NASA's Phoenix lander flexing its robotic arm.

Here’s How NASA Dreams up Robotic Arms for Landers

By Victor Tangermann

Toyota's basketball-playing robot, Cue 3, isn't about to replace athletes, but it does herald a new era of incredibly-precise machinery.

Toyota’s Basketball Robot Can Nail Three-Pointers

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Military is Buying a Brutal-Looking Powered Exoskeleton

The U.S. Military is Buying a Brutal-Looking Powered Exoskeleton

By Victor Tangermann

Parts Suppliers Are Boycotting Russia’s Pistol-Shooting Android

Parts Suppliers Are Boycotting Russia’s Pistol-Shooting Android

By Victor Tangermann

Indian police just swore in KP-Bot as a sub-inspector. The robot police officer will work behind the front desk and direct visitors as needed.

India Just Swore in Its First Robot Police Officer

By Dan Robitzski

Robots Are Already Driving and Painting, Now They’re Directing Films Too

Artificial Intelligence

Robots Are Already Driving and Painting, Now They’re Directing Films Too

By Catherine Mullen

Researchers at ETH Zurich designed a robot that can teach itself how to ice skate. It could one day be used during search and rescue missions.

Watch an Ice Skating Robot Play Hockey

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland taught its four-legged robot dog how to get up after being kicked using AI — a valuable life skill.

This Robot Dog Can Recover From a Vicious Kick Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

Henn na Hotel in Japan is reportedly decommissioning half of the robots it used to have running the show. Too many were buggy or just plain annoying.

Japan’s Robot Hotel Just Laid Off Half Its Robots

By Dan Robitzski

We need to improve robot surgeons' sense of touch before the machines can truly reach their potential, according to one surgeon.

Health & Medicine

Experts Want to Give Robot Surgeons a Sense of Touch

By Kristin Houser

A new swarm of robots inspired by biological cells can communicate with each other to autonomously create new structures and shapes.

Bio-Inspired Swarm Robots Can Form Structures Without a Blueprint

By Dan Robitzski

Russian TV Tried to Pass a Man in a Suit off as A High Tech Robot

Russian TV Tried to Pass a Man in a Suit off as A High Tech Robot

By Victor Tangermann

New research found a definition of "trust" that could be programmed into a robot's software. But it turns out we still trust machines more than they do us.

Scientists Want to Teach Robots to Know When to Trust Humans

By Dan Robitzski

A new robotic limb picks up on the signals that an amputee's brain sends to their perceived phantom limbs. Without any practice, the new arm responds.

Prosthetics and Devices

A New Prosthetic Arm Takes the Place of a Phantom Limb

By Dan Robitzski

Arm-A-Dine is a robot arm that picks up food and feeds it to whichever human looks happiest. If you want dinner, you'll have to smile for the camera.

Prosthetics and Devices

A Wearable Robot Arm Makes You Work for Thanksgiving Leftovers

By Dan Robitzski

This Week in Tech: Sept 22-28

This Week in Tech: Sept 22-28

By Victor Tangermann

Assembly lines are increasingly automated, but for manufacturing at the OG of assembly lines, humans (with exoskeletons) are still behind the wheel.

Prosthetics and Devices

Exoskeletons are About to Walk Ford’s Factory Floors

OpenAi just unveiled Dactyl, an AI system trained to control a robot hand using the same algorithms used to train computer game playing AIs.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI-Operated Robotic Hand Moves With “Unprecedented Dexterity”

By Kristin Houser

This Robot Is Here to Draw Your Blood

Health & Medicine

This Robot Is Here to Draw Your Blood

By Kristin Houser

There’s Now A Computer Designed Specifically for Programming Intelligent Robots

Artificial Intelligence

There’s Now A Computer Designed Specifically for Programming Intelligent Robots

By Kristin Houser

This Aerial Robot Can Change Its Shape Mid-Flight

This Aerial Robot Can Change Its Shape Mid-Flight

By Kristin Houser

The Cyborgs Are Here: Researchers Put Living Cells In A Robotic Finger

The Cyborgs Are Here: Researchers Put Living Cells In A Robotic Finger

By Kristin Houser

These Hyper-Sensitive Fibers Might Stand In As Robot Nerves

These Hyper-Sensitive Fibers Might Stand In As Robot Nerves

Cute, Brainless, Self-Propelled Robots Could Someday Move Around Inside Animals

Cute, Brainless, Self-Propelled Robots Could Someday Move Around Inside Animals

By Dan Robitzski

Watch These Animal-Inspired Robots Find Their Footing

Watch These Animal-Inspired Robots Find Their Footing

By Kristin Houser

New Soft Robotic Skin Automatically Heals Itself, Even If You Shoot It Full Of Holes

New Soft Robotic Skin Automatically Heals Itself, Even If You Shoot It Full Of Holes

By Dan Robitzski

This All-Terrain Robot “Teaches” Itself to Walk in a Revolutionary Way

This All-Terrain Robot “Teaches” Itself to Walk in a Revolutionary Way

Robots Can Grow Humanoid Mini-Organs From Stem Cells Faster And Better Than People

Robots Can Grow Humanoid Mini-Organs From Stem Cells Faster And Better Than People

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Just Unveiled This Awesome, Tiny Helicopter That Will Cruise Over Mars

NASA Just Unveiled This Awesome, Tiny Helicopter That Will Cruise Over Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Japan Is Replacing Its Aging Construction Workers With Robots

Japan Is Replacing Its Aging Construction Workers With Robots

By Dan Robitzski

The Military Wants to Make AI That Mimics the Human Brain. Experts Know There’s a Better Way.

Artificial Intelligence

The Military Wants to Make AI That Mimics the Human Brain. Experts Know There’s a Better Way.

By Dan Robitzski

Pacific Rim’s Robots Are Less Advanced Than Some of Today’s Real Robots

Prosthetics and Devices

Pacific Rim’s Robots Are Less Advanced Than Some of Today’s Real Robots

By Kristin Houser

Bring This Robot to a Disco, and It’ll Dance With You

Artificial Intelligence

Bring This Robot to a Disco, and It’ll Dance With You

By Patrick Caughill

We Now Have Soft Robots With a Sense of Touch. But Why?

We Now Have Soft Robots With a Sense of Touch. But Why?

By Chelsea Gohd

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics’s SpotMini Is Really, Really Determined to Open Doors