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Fast-food chains like Chipotle, White Castle, and Sweetgreen are turning to kitchen robots to increase efficiency and offset labor costs.

Even as human-caused climate change threatens the environment, nature continues to inspire our technological advancement.

The distinctive robot couriers have become a regular sight on the streets of Finnish cities over the past few months.

Experts agree on the potential of machines to take on specific tasks, such as reminding someone to take medication, or tracking a patient’s moods. However, they warn that robotics alone isn’t enough

Missions focusing on small bodies in the solar system have been coming thick and fast lately. OSIRIS-Rex, Psyche, and Rosetta are all examples of projects that planned or did rendezvous with a small body in the solar system. But one of their biggest challenges is understanding the gravity of these b...

Butterfly Network and Mendaera are jointly developing and commercializing a robot with Butterfly’s Ultrasound-on-Chip technology.

A new study explores how children aged three to five gauge the reliability of information from humans and robots.

Leading thinkers from CMU, UC Berkeley, Meta, NVIDIA, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute share their predictions.

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Scientists create the first-ever living robots, 'xenobots,' with the ability to reproduce, posing profound questions for robotics, regenerative medicine, and artificial intelligence.

Unless you happen to be the fastest person on Earth, there’s no point running away from Raptor.

One of the world’s most widely used cargo planes completed an entire flight with no one on board for the first time.

CHENGDU — Inside a building on the outskirts of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, 16 robots tend to vegetables growing on a 10-meter-tall, 20-tier rack.

The inaugural Lego RoboRumble competition pits students’ robotic Lego creations against one another for awards, prizes and learning.

Some American senior citizens have a new companion to help them combat loneliness: a robot. ElliQ is a tabletop device that uses artificial intelligence to conduct humanlike conversations with its owners.

2023 was full of highlights and lowlights. In this year in review episode, we discuss the top robotics stories with our special guests.

Think of it like a flying Blastoise robot that could be ready for action in the next decade

The Boeing-made vessel will now undergoing trials that will inform future robo subs.

Stonemasons at Washington National Cathedral are relying on a state-of-the-art robotic arm to help them carve intricate stone pieces that were damaged in a 2011 earthquake.

Outside the glare of the klieg lights that ChatGPT commanded this year, a troupe of autonomous machines nudged the frontiers of robotics forward. Here are six that showed special prowess — swimming, diving, gripping, seeing, strolling and flying through 2023. A Media Darling at CES Ella — a smart st...

Skyline Robotics, which won a 2023 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award, has raised more funding for its Ozmo window-cleaning robot.

What are they for?

Nature - A system called Coscientist scours the Internet for instructions, then designs and executes experiments to synthesize molecules.

We spent some time with the prototype robot vacuum from two ex-Google engineers that will be available in March 2024.