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Meet Bluebot, a friendly swimming robot with big camera eyes. Put a few in a tank together and they’ll collaborate to complete surprisingly complex tasks.

By automating its pharmacy via ABB, the Shanghai Seventh People’s Hospital developed a cost-effective method to deliver life-saving drugs.

There are now a lot of fixed-wing drones on the market, and most of them look pretty similar. FLY-R's aircraft are different, though, in that they incorporate a rhomboidal wing design – it's claimed to offer some distinct advantages.

It's OK, mom -- the K1 is educational.

The year of the first-ever all-virtual CES is, unsurprisingly, the year of the virtual gym. The past 12 months have seen most of our fitness routines completely transformed — speaking for myself, my Apple Watch step count shows two big empty spots where March and April are. Fitness startups have see...

The smart home team at Digital Trends voted on the best smart home tech at CES 2021. Here are our picks.

Pandemic-inspired sanitizing technology is everywhere. Even if the science behind the gadgets is sound, it's smart to be skeptical.

General Motors has shown off two truly wild-looking autonomous vehicle and flying car concepts under the Cadillac brand at this year's CES.

Sony's mirrorless Alpha series cameras have become hugely popular filmmaking tools, thanks in large part to the company's excellent sensors. At this year's CES, Sony announced it's starting up a drone business specifically to work with Alpha cameras, and it promises to be absolutely Airpeak.

LG has all kinds of OLEDs, Sony showed off its drone camera and prototype car, and TCL is leaning into 8K. Here's all the news from day one of CES 2021.

Milirem Robotics has rolled out its Type-X Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) for its first mobility tests. Unveiled in 2020, the RCV is a medium-weight autonomous armored platform, designed to provide reconnaissance and fire support for mechanized units and convoys.

Pollen Robotics turned heads at last year’s CES . After all, a humanoid robot will do that on the show floor (even if it’s only half of one). The French startup is back for this year’s show (insofar as anyone is really back for the show), with some key updates to its robot, Reachy. The […]

The robot is still "in development."

This is how we teach robots to cooperate with each other. And lie.

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Lightmatter bets that optical computing can solve AI’s efficiency problem

Expect advances in Mars missions, wearable brain scanners, and quantum communications

An MIT report described challenges of adopting and using industrial robotics and made recommendations about how to move the industry forward.

Future robots might build and repair themselves with ice! Check out the challenges lying ahead.

The company's vehicles are one of a number of new demining systems coming online in the two countries.

Daniel Simpson, a first-year student at Northeastern, has wanted to build robots since he first saw Tony Stark in Iron Man. Now, he’s helping to design and build a mobile COVID-busting robot that uses UV light to sterilize desks and table-tops—while getting both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees i...

Although cleaning up the humungous Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a daunting concept, removing trash from local waterways is much more feasible … and that's exactly what the Clearbot robot is designed to do.

Last year was a big one for restaurant server robots, those self-driving trays on wheels that shuttle food from the kitchen to your table and take your empty dishes back. Yes, the pandemic closed m…

Aaron Saunders, Boston Dynamics’ VP of Engineering, tells us where Atlas got its moves from