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Silicon Valley Is Reviving the Dream of General-Purpose Humanoid Robots

Edd Gent - May 22, 2023

Watch This Shape-Shifting Robot Melt to Escape a Cage, Then Reform

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - February 1, 2023

CES 2023 Robot Roundup: Bots to Make Our Lives Better, Easier, or Just More Fun

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - January 8, 2023

Materials Made of Mechanical Neural Networks Can Learn to Adapt Their Physical Properties

Ryan H. Lee - October 23, 2022

IKEA Is Using Driverless Trucks to Move Its Furniture in Texas

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - October 20, 2022

This Exoskeleton Uses AI to Help People Walk Faster With Less Energy

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - October 14, 2022

This Robot Cook Will Soon Dole Out Perfectly Seasoned Chips at Chipotle

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - September 29, 2022

Like a Swarm of Bees, These Drones Can 3D Print Structures While in Flight

Shelly Fan - September 27, 2022

Why Household Robots Like Rosie From the ‘Jetsons’ Are Still Out of Reach

Ayonga Hereid - September 18, 2022

Robots Chop a Few Bucks off the Price of Lunch at This Fully Automated Restaurant

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - August 31, 2022

Google Gave Its Helper Robots AI Language Skills to Better Work With Humans

Edd Gent - August 22, 2022

Former SpaceX Engineers Are Launching a Startup Where Robots Make Pizzas in 45 Seconds

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - August 10, 2022

This Robot Dog Has an AI Brain and Taught Itself to Walk in Just an Hour

Jason Dorrier - August 8, 2022

A Startup Is 3D Printing Bionic Arms for Ukrainians Injured in Conflict

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - July 27, 2022

A 165-Mile Drone Superhighway Will Soon Be Built in the UK

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - July 20, 2022

Swiss Company to Build an Intercity Network of Tunnels for Robotic Cargo Pods

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - July 13, 2022

A Paralyzed Man Used His Mind to Control Two Robotic Arms to Eat Cake

Shelly Fan - July 5, 2022

These 3D Printed Millirobots Can Sense and React to Their Surroundings

Shelly Fan - June 21, 2022

Amazon Will Pilot Drone Delivery in California This Year

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - June 17, 2022

Scientists Used Human Cells to Make Self-Healing ‘Living Skin’ for Robots

Edd Gent - June 13, 2022

Volvo and DHL Are Partnering on Hub-to-Hub Autonomous Trucking

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - May 20, 2022

A 590-Foot-Tall Dam in China Will Be Built Entirely by Robots

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - May 18, 2022

The UK’s First Autonomous Passenger Bus Started Road Tests This Week

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - April 29, 2022

GM Just Patented a Self-Driving Car That Teaches People How to Drive

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - April 20, 2022

Japan Wants to Make Half Its Cargo Ships Autonomous by 2040

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - February 23, 2022

Flippy the Fast Food Robot Just Got Hired in 100 Restaurants

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - February 17, 2022

Drones as Big as 747s Will Fly Cargo Around the World With Low Emissions, Startup Says

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - February 11, 2022

Sensor-Packed ‘Electronic Skin’ Controls Robots With Haptic Feedback

Edd Gent - January 17, 2022

This Autonomous Delivery Robot Has External Airbags in Case It Hits a Person

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - January 14, 2022

A Chinese Company Says It Will Be Selling Driverless Cars by 2024

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - January 5, 2022

These Robotic Factories Will Make Supermaterials in Space

Jason Dorrier - December 26, 2021

This Robot Tunnels Through Solid Rock by Blasting It With a Jet of Superheated Gas

Jason Dorrier - December 11, 2021

Robots Evolve Bodies and Brains Like Animals in MIT’s New AI Training Simulator

Edd Gent - December 6, 2021

Your Holiday Gifts Could Be Shipped by Robot Semi, Courtesy of UPS and Waymo

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - November 26, 2021

This Restaurant Robot Fries Your Food to Perfection With No Human Help

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - November 5, 2021

GE’s New Autonomous Electric Pods Have No Steering Wheel, Pedals, or Cab

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - November 4, 2021

This Bipedal Drone Robot Can Walk, Fly, Skateboard, and Slackline

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - October 8, 2021

Walmart Is Launching an Autonomous Delivery Service in Three US Cities

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - September 16, 2021

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Robot Crush a New Parkour Course

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - August 18, 2021

This Robot Taught Itself to Run, Then Proceeded to Knock Out a 5K

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - July 28, 2021

Amazon Patented a New Delivery System That Could Have Your Block Crawling With Robots

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - July 15, 2021

Watch Robots Make Pizzas From Start to Finish at an Automated Pizzeria

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - July 14, 2021

This Drone Bus Will Carry 40 Passengers Between Cities for the Price of a Train Ticket

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - June 10, 2021

Scientists Added a Sense of Touch to a Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm

Edd Gent - May 24, 2021

A Huge New Kroger Warehouse Is Staffed by 1,000 Grocery-Picking Robots

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - April 16, 2021

This Robot Taught Itself to Walk in a Simulation—Then Went for a Stroll in Berkeley

Jason Dorrier - April 11, 2021

Xenobots 2.0: These Living Robots Self-Assemble From Frog Skin Cells

Edd Gent - April 2, 2021

Watch Hypnotic Drone Footage of Boiling Lava Taken Inside Iceland Volcano’s Crater

Jason Dorrier - March 31, 2021

Boston Dynamics’ New Warehouse Robot, Stretch, Moves 800 Boxes an Hour

Vanessa Bates Ramirez - March 31, 2021

This Shape-Shifting Robot Can Rearrange Its Body to Walk in New Environments

David Howard - March 25, 2021

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