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A swarm of bots inspired by the way living cells move can slither through gaps and keep moving if many of its parts fail

A company called Tombot thinks it’s come up with a way to improve the quality of life for seniors facing challenges when it comes to being social: a robotic companion dog that behaves and responds like a real pup, but without all the responsibilities of maintaining a living, breathing animal. The co...

As robots and AI replace more and more workers, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez argues we need a national safety net to provide for the displaced.

Manufacturing has been one of the biggest and earliest adopters of robotics innovations in the last several years, but with that early movement has also come entrenchment: the industry is rife with expensive, oversized machines that often run on proprietary operating systems, making them hard to up…

USSOCOMM joins the U.S. Army and Navy in using Sarcos' Guardian XO, an exoskeleton that can operate for up to eight hours on a single battery charge.

nearly 70 percent of the managers who have replaced workers with robots say they would do it again, even if it didn't save the company any money.

Exquisitely engineered "soft" robotic arm is powered by air

Drones are useful in countless ways, but that usefulness is often limited by the time they can stay in the air. Shouldn't drones be able to take a load off too? With these special claws attached, they can perch or hang with ease, conserving battery power and vastly extending their flight time.

Research performed by Cornell University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem suggests that people are intimidated by clever robots.

For the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, Japan is recruiting some unusual volunteers: robots made by Toyota will be deployed at different venues to help assist people in wheelchairs and carry around food and drinks. Exoskeletons made by Panasonic will be used by workers who have to lift heavy loads.

Networked drones will circle layered airways, all operated using AI city brains and blockchain-based data infrastructures.

Hydraulic actuators will give Nadia a unique combination of flexibility and power

An AI-powered robot head named Tengai could make the applicant screening process less biased while still providing a "human" touch.

Soft, biologically inspired robots have become one of the field’s most exciting offshoots, with machines that are capable of squeezing between obstacles and conforming to the world around them. A joint project between MIT CSAIL and Harvard’s Wyss converts those learnings into a simple, soft robotic…

Cambridge Consultants has developed an autonomous four-wheeled robot called Mamut that captures data on individual crop health and overall yield.

After three years of testing, German retailer ADLER is deploying TORY, MetraLabs' autonomous mobile robot, to 40 of its stores to take inventory.

Google has released a new app called Lookout that describes objects and reads text or currency for people with visual impairments.

Toyota is going to the moon. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has teamed up with the carmaker to build a pressurized self-driving rove

Researchers believe they have become the first to create an AI-controlled robotic limb driven by animal-like tendons that can even be tripped up and then recover within the time of the next footfall, a task for which the robot was never explicitly programmed to do.

Roboticists have the strangest pet projects. For Colin Angle, it’s vacuuming up lionfish. The iRobot CEO is also the co-founder of RSE (that’s Robots in Service of the Environment), a volunteer-based organization designed to create what it says in the name. The organization’s first project, announc…

Researchers have developed a robotic system that can feed people who need someone to help them eat.

A French inventor took to Kickstarter to raise funds for an insect-inspired winged drone called MetaFly. It generated quite a buzz. As of the time this article was published, more than 1,850 people have pledged over $187,500 to bring the drone to market. It's expected to ship in September 2019.

Smart robot Jibo has started informing its owner that its servers will be shut down any day now. Once that happens, its interactions will be limited.

Google parent company Alphabet is preparing to launch what the Australian Broadcasting Corporation says is the first commercial drone delivery service.