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The upcoming Perseverance mission will attempt the first powered flight on another planet

One of the reasons that we're still not seeing delivery drones in common use lies in the fact that they can only fly for about half an hour per battery-charge. According to a new study, though, their range could be extended if they hitched rides on top of buses.

Four-legged HyQ balancing on two legs. Nice results from the team at IIT’s Dynamic Legged Systems Lab. And we can’t wait to see the “ninja walk,” currently shown in simulation, implemented with the real robot!

Helen Keller once wrote "blindness separates people from things, deafness separates people from people," and there are many technological projects dedicated to breaking down those interpersonal barriers. We've covered a number of motion-tracking gloves designed to translate sign language into audibl...

If you're preparing food on an automated production line, then that line had better be clean. A new autonomous robot was designed with this in mind, as it actually learns how to clean better over time.

Scientists have created soft robots inspired by jellyfish that can outswim their real-world counterparts.

You could be excused for thinking that German robotics company Festo does nothing but put together fabulous prototype robots built to resemble kangaroos, jellyfish, and other living things. They do in fact actually make real industrial robots, but it’s hard not to marvel at their biomimetic experime...

Robotic textiles, or soft robotics for wearable devices, can now be actuated without bulky hydraulics, thanks to new Harvard University research.

Study shows that interacting with a robotic seal can reduce the perception of pain

FedEx’s Aaron Prather will review the opportunities for robotics in the logistics sector, including circumstances that lead to deployment failures.

Through a combination of 3D printing techniques and sprayable electronic technology, researchers have come up with a new kind of touchscreen display that can be adapted to almost any shape. They're calling it ProtoSpray.

The makers of the robotic camera Solo Cinebot say their camera can offer a solution to production companies in this new world of social distancing. (See video below.) Virtually every government in …

Automated bubbles = automated fun

In one of the more memorable scenes from the 2002 blockbuster film Minority Report, Tom Cruise is forced to hide from a swarm of spider-like robots scouring a towering apartment complex. While most viewers ...

This swarm of robots may herald a chemical-free food revolution

The latest "spy cam" clip from the PBS docu-series Spy in the Wild 2 takes the robot camera bit farther than before. Not only did they use a robot "spy

The technology that might one day transform our eating out experience.

An Ann Arbor robotics startup is expanding into the growing world of grocery delivery. Customers of The Produce Station grocery store on South State Street in Ann Arbor can now have their items delivered by a REV-1 robot developed by Refraction AI Inc. Since last year, the company has been using…

The Deco-Pod by BeeHex is an all-in-one machine for in-store bakeries to improve consistency when decorating cakes, cookies, and cupcakes.

Researchers from MIT have developed a new way to keep shared spaces free of the coronavirus and other pathogens: a UVC light-equipped robot.

SPARROW, a steam-powered robotic concept, could one day take giant leaps over some of the most hazardous terrains known (and unknown) in the solar system. Steam locomotion may sound like an antiquated way to get around, but it might be getting a science fiction makeover as we expand our reach int

It was really only a matter of time.

BBC Click's Jen Copestake looks at the best of the week's technology stories.

Smells can be an efficient, effective way of delivering temperature sensations in virtual reality