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In 2018, AI created about three times as many jobs as it destroyed, the report found, in a variety of industries beyond the tech sector. 

How NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed the robot arm for the Mars 2020 rover

Each drone was equipped with a paint tank and a spray nozzle

Researchers used deep reinforcement learning to teach these strange robots how to move

Animals have lots of creative ways of moving through the water, and robots are stealing them

Researchers at Japan’s Hiroshima University have developed a robotic prosthetic hand, controllable using only a wearer’s thoughts. The low-cost 3D-printed creation can perform a wide variety of hand gestures, and even engage in a game of rock-paper-scissors. Check it out.

Machine learning can be an incredible addition to any tinkerer’s toolbox, helping to fix that little problem in life that no commercial gadget can handle. For Amazon engineer Ben Hamm, that problem was stopping his "sweet, murderous cat" Metric from bringing home dead and half-dead prey in the middl...

Drive.ai, a self-driving startup that was once valued at $200 million, was supposedly closing its doors and laying off all its staff — but Apple has now confirmed to Axios and The Verge that it’s acquired the struggling startup instead.

NASA is sending a drone to Titan, Saturn's largest moon, in an ambitious mission that could unlock the mystery of how life began on Earth. Launching in 2026, the dual-quadcopter will reach Titan eight years later, whereupon it’ll spend several years gathering data from locations of interest.

Several years ago, we heard how scientists from Sweden's Chalmers University had created a 3D-printing medium made from wood fiber. Now, they've developed a new method of printing with it, producing solid material with the structure and qualities of natural wood.

Researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have developed a new type of self-assembling mobile micromachine that can be programmed to assemble into different formations -- ranging from a tiny car to a miniature rocket. Here's what's next for the project.

At Amazon’s first re:MARS Conference in Las Vegas, the company showed off its future with drones, robots, and plenty of artificial intelligence. But is this just Amazon’s future or is it the world’s, too? As automation comes for more of our jobs, Amazon’s vision of algorithmic efficiency might soon ...

The global market for pipeline inspection robots is estimated to exceed $2 billion in the next six years, more than tripling today’s $600 million in sales.

A social robot named Huggable, used in inpatient pediatric units interventions like at Boston Children’s Hospital, can lead to more positive experiences for sick children, according to a study co-authored by MIT Media Lab researchers Cynthia Breazeal and Sooyeon Jeong.

Okay do you know how we can taste things and that was pretty special? It’s not special anymore, because researchers at UC Davis working with colleagues Carnegie Mellon have developed a way for an experimental soft robotic gripper to ‘taste’ things as well, using bacteria engineered to allow it to de...

The RoboBee is a minuscule robot that’s inspired by, you guessed it, the biology of a bee.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover has detected high levels of methane output during its mission on the Martian surface, the New York Times reports. The discovery, found during a measurement taking on Wednesday by the robot and observed by NASA researchers, could indicate that microbial lifeforms may have taken...

Standing upright and walking alone are very simple but noble motions that separate humans from many other creatures. Wearable and prosthetic technologies have emerged to augment human function in locomotion and manipulation. However, advances in wearable robot technology have been especially momento...

The drone named TTwistor3 approaching a supercell thunderstorm

If you can't afford a fancy quadruped with springy legs, just use a springy floor instead

Think of it as a Roomba for grains.

Prototypes of killer robots are already in development and could be ready for action within two years, according to a new Vox story.

Facebook Inc. today announced that it is making the PyRobot framework for robotics research and benchmarking open source.

Lunar rovers are cool — but imagine how much cooler they’d be if they could also rappel. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University will try to make rappelling robots a reality, after having been selected by NASA as the recipient of a new $2 million research grant aimed at coming up with new technolo...