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Biped bot uses your old, dusty phone for brains ↗
That old phone gathering dust in a drawer could have a second life far more entertaining than being a paperweight.
Water-pumping robot worms its way over rugged coastal terrain ↗
Biomimicry involves borrowing ideas from nature to solve engineering problems.
Impossibly tiny Swiss motor looks like anything but ↗
If you've already designed a soft-bodied robot, it kind of defeats the purpose if you just go and stick a rigid motor inside of it.
Next-gen hopping robot is the smart flea we didn't know we needed ↗
We’ve already seen robots that can swim like fish, stick to walls like geckos, and grab objects like elephants.
Tiny robot harvests battery power via skin on its feet ↗
Researchers have developed a paper-thin foot membrane that lets crawling microrobots harvest electricity directly from the ground beneath them, ditching heavy onboard batteries by turning metal and silicon surfaces into…
Video: Dexterous robot hand learns the delicate art of silk embroidery ↗
Agilink, a spin-off of Chinese robotics giant AgiBot, asked Fu Xianghong, a master of traditional Suzhou embroidery, to train its OmniHand 3 Ultra.
MIT robot swims through water via living muscle cells ↗
An MIT robot powered by a single layer of living muscle cells swam through a watery maze, following a light held in a researcher’s hand.
Wind-up elastic robot jumps forever when fed infrared light ↗
Robots – that is, self-guided mechanisms interacting with or changing their environments – exist in the popular imagination as large, blocky, metallic beings like R2D2 or TARS from Interstellar.
FDA-cleared exoskeleton puts spinal-cord patients back on their feet ↗
A robotic suit that lets someone with a spinal-cord injury stand up, look a friend in the eye, or stir a pot on the stove without anyone's help just cleared its biggest hurdle.
Will a cyborg cockroach paramedic save your life in the future? ↗
If you think that cockroaches are creepy and useless, we can prove you wrong.
Frog muscle put to use in swimming robotic manta ray ↗
Few things make the career jump from regional cuisine delicacy to robotics actuator.
Robotic fish swims like the real thing, and can be built to any size ↗
Nature is undoubtedly the smartest engineer.
Adorable waddling robot can pick up stuff and learn new tricks ↗
This cute little robot duck isn't actually a toy.
Wheel-legged robot dog dumps packages – and ads ↗
Today, you can buy almost anything with a few clicks on your phone.
Sub-$1,700 household robot promises to handle chores and more ↗
Are household humanoid robots getting cheaper already?
New controller makes operating an excavator almost instinctive ↗
Watching skilled excavator operators work is almost hypnotic.
Robotic tiles autonomously Lego-snap into floating smart structures ↗
You don’t have to watch Kevin Costner’s Waterworld to know that for much of the world, the future will be increasingly flooded.
If you planned to buy a Chinese robot in the US, we've got bad news ↗
The US is banning the sale of robots made outside the country.
AI security robot rolls up on one wheel looking quite unserious ↗
Why pay to design and mass-produce a four-wheeled autonomous security robot, when you can make a less costly one with just one wheel?
Robotic elephant-trunk gripper uses internal camera for a sense of touch ↗
Evolution has already found solutions to lots of problems, so engineers more often borrow ideas from nature instead of reinventing the wheel.
'World's 1st mass-produced humanoid robot' motors to market in China ↗
People have been fantasizing about humanoid robots for decades.
Cyborg cockroaches go amphibious ... thanks to a new diving suit ↗
What sounds more terrifying than a part-cockroach, part-robot cyborg?
First bird-scale robot to swim, dive, and launch back into flight ↗
A robot that swims like a diving bird and then flies like, well, a bird, sounds like the setup for two different machines bolted together.
Teleoperated humanoid robots complete first-ever live surgery ↗
Surgeons at UC San Diego just handed the scalpel to two humanoid robots, who went on to complete live surgical procedures for the first time in history.
$8,000 robot is ready to take over all laundry and bed-making duties ↗
Weave Robotics announced its first robot for folding laundry just five months ago, and it already has a new product on offer.
Soft-yet-firm robohand assesses the ripeness of produce that it picks ↗
Agriculture is one of the industries that is getting increasingly affected by robotics, which totally makes sense, as farmers around the world face human labor shortages and also rising labor costs.
Lizard-inspired wiggly wheels let Mars rover swim through sand ↗
The sandfish lizard moves very efficiently through the sands of the Sahara desert, and not surprisingly, it doesn't use wheels to do so.
Octopus-like robo-arm thinks with its suckers to explore the ocean floor ↗
Robots exploring the ocean floor today use pre-programmed movements, centralized processors, and rigid structures to do their work.
Soft robots with squishy hearts demonstrate next-level flexibility ↗
Soft robots have a “cardiovascular” problem.
What has 20 eyes, 20 legs, and no front or back? Duke's Argus does ↗
Most of nature – including humans – is symmetrical, and as creations reflect their creators, many robots we create today feature this symmetry, with the general assumption that symmetry is best.