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  • Robotic centipede with black shells and exposed components on a gravel path.

    Giant Robotic Bugs Are Headed to Farms

    Ground Control Robotics’ legged bots could weed crops better than humans

    16 May 2025
    Robotic centipede with black shells and exposed components on a gravel path.
  • Small humanoid robot with a white body and round head standing on a tiled floor indoors.

    Cartwheel Robotics Wants to Build Humanoids That People Love

    Founder Scott LaValley is taking a new approach to home robots

    12 May 2025
    Small humanoid robot with a white body and round head standing on a tiled floor indoors.
  • Robotic arm sorting yellow storage bins in a warehouse aisle.

    Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans

    The company has been testing the bots in a warehouse in Germany

    07 May 2025
    Robotic arm sorting yellow storage bins in a warehouse aisle.
  • Robotic arms organize shelves in an automated warehouse, surrounded by yellow storage bins.

    Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Are Mastering Picking Packages

    Handling contact and clutter for 400 million unique items is a tough task

    07 May 2025
    Robotic arms organize shelves in an automated warehouse, surrounded by yellow storage bins.
  • Sepia-toned photo of creamery storefront

    Bot Milk?

    Lely’s dairy farming robots make the cows comfy and the workplace safer for their human caretakers

    01 May 2025
    Sepia-toned photo of creamery storefront
  • Metal diamond-shaped apparatus with wires and a short metal pole coming from the top.

    Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI

    Its creator lost a power struggle that led to an AI winter in the 1970s

    30 Apr 2025
    Metal diamond-shaped apparatus with wires and a short metal pole coming from the top.
  • The Future of AI and Robotics Is Being Led by Amazon’s Next-Gen Warehouses

    The company’s robotics systems are redefining warehouse efficiency

    15 Apr 2025
  • A large red robot moves down the aisle of a dairy barn, dispensing feed to cows lined up to eat

    How Dairy Robots Are Changing Work for Cows (and Farmers)

    Everyone’s happier when robots handle milking, feeding, and ear scritching

    01 Apr 2025
    A large red robot moves down the aisle of a dairy barn, dispensing feed to cows lined up to eat
  • Protecting Robots in Harsh Environments With Advanced Sealing Systems

    How outdoor cobots can survive extreme weather and mechanical stress

    01 Apr 2025
  • A miniature drone on top of a U.S. penny.

    The Tiniest Flying Robot Soars, Thanks to Magnets

    The prototype, with a wingspan that's less than a centimeter, has no onboard power source

    28 Mar 2025
    A miniature drone on top of a U.S. penny.
  • A robot mimics a squirrel's jump across a gap, with trajectory path and squirrel images in the background.

    Squirrels Inspire Leaping Strategy for Salto Robot

    The one-legged robot is learning to jump from perch to perch

    19 Mar 2025
    A robot mimics a squirrel's jump across a gap, with trajectory path and squirrel images in the background.
  • An eight-wheeled military robotic system resembles a roving metal flatbed.

    Kyiv Startup Tests Unified Controller for Robots and Drones

    The technology would allow video-game-like control of robotic swarms

    13 Mar 2025
    An eight-wheeled military robotic system resembles a roving metal flatbed.
  • A robotic hand using a finger to drag small letter tiles across a table in order to spell the word "world."

    With Gemini Robotics, Google Aims for Smarter Robots

    DeepMind launches two new foundation models to help robots reason

    12 Mar 2025
    A robotic hand using a finger to drag small letter tiles across a table in order to spell the word "world."
  • A cylindrical robot with four evenly spaced chunky rings, meant to resemble the body of an earthworm.

    Wormlike Robots Install Power Lines Underground

    Bio-inspired approach simplifies underground construction

    10 Mar 2025
    A cylindrical robot with four evenly spaced chunky rings, meant to resemble the body of an earthworm.
  • Two engineers soldering a circuit board in a university computer lab.

    “Flying Batteries” Could Help Microdrones Take Off

    This circuit stacks featherweight solid-state batteries to boost voltage

    06 Mar 2025
    Two engineers soldering a circuit board in a university computer lab.
  • A concept image showing a small robot consisting of a single leg and a large foot with two wheels on the sides performing a series of leaps across an icy landscape with water geysers.

    A Tiny Jumping Robot for Exploring Enceladus

    Our favorite jumping robot is hoping for a trip to Saturn’s icy moon

    03 Mar 2025
    A concept image showing a small robot consisting of a single leg and a large foot with two wheels on the sides performing a series of leaps across an icy landscape with water geysers.
  • Reinforcement Learning Triples Spot’s Running Speed

    The Robotics and AI Institute is teaching robot dogs to run and bicycles to jump

    21 Feb 2025
  • A large quadrupedal robot with two large blue and black arms attached to its head with tools on the ends of them stands in a lab.

    Dual-Arm HyQReal Puts Powerful Telepresence Anywhere

    IIT’s hydraulic quadruped can carry a pair of massive arms

    11 Feb 2025
    A large quadrupedal robot with two large blue and black arms attached to its head with tools on the ends of them stands in a lab.
  • The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars

    20 years ago, Stanley won the DARPA Grand Challenge, but the tech is still niche

    01 Feb 2025
  • Collage showing a Cragstan Talking Robot and Electro Harmonix Ring Thing Modulator against a background of waveform audio.

    AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic

    Here's a simple way to identify who, or what, is talking to us

    30 Jan 2025
    Collage showing a Cragstan Talking Robot and Electro Harmonix Ring Thing Modulator against a background of waveform audio.
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