A new jumping robot that can soar nearly 100 feet into the air might use the ability to explore the moon for NASA.

Engineered Arts, a robotics firm located in the United Kingdom, released a video showing a humanoid robot that looks exceptionally lifelike.

AI research lab ​​DeepMind, a sister company of Google, has purchased and open-sourced the powerful robot simulator MuJoCo.

A pair of harvesting robots are picking raspberries in Portugal, demonstrating the ability of tech to help combat seasonal labor shortages.

DHL Supply Chain is paying Boston Dynamics $15 million for a fleet of its autonomous warehouse robots, which can each move 800 boxes/hour.

A robot dog reached the summit of an Alps trail more quickly than the average human — and the mechanical K9s are just getting started.

An insect-sized robot with the agility of a cheetah could one day save lives by assessing disaster zones ahead of first responders.

Caltech's new bipedal walking robot can fly to get around obstacles, and it's steady enough on its feet to skateboard or slackline.

Agility Robotics’ Cassie just became the first bipedal robot to complete an outdoor 5K run, completing the jaunt on a single charge.

A pair of robot legs were able to teach themselves to walk thanks to a unique twist on reinforcement learning, a common AI training technique.

Robots are helping humans in a growing number of places - from archaeological sites to disaster zones to sewers.

The robot takeover is here — and it’s kinda cute.

Johns Hopkins' autonomous surgery robot, STAR, performed a tricky keyhole surgery on live pigs better than a human surgeon could.

Hanson Robotics is going to begin mass-producing Sophia the robot in 2021, making the social robot available to help combat the pandemic.

Italy's Robotor is inspiring artists to pick up Carrara marble as a medium by delegating the laborious carving process to sculpting robots.

Goodyear’s airless tires are now being used by a fleet of Starship's autonomous delivery robots on a college campus in the U.S.

Teledyne Flir has sent at least two of its rescue robots to help hunt for survivors in a collapsed building in Florida.

An all-electric, beach-cleaning robot called BeBot can sift through sand to extract pieces of debris too small for traditional systems.

Dyret is a shape-shifting quadruped robot that can change the length of its legs. This helps it walk across different terrains or account for any injuries.

University of Tokyo researchers have created a living skin, made from human cells and collagen, for a robotic finger.

Seoul National University researchers have built a wearable robot that helps people with ​​spinal cord injuries breathe, cough, and sing.

Ford Motor Company has built a pair of robot test drivers to fill in for humans during dangerous endurance tests at its Weather Factory.

Inspired by steam engines and water-walking insects, this soft robot may one day mop up oil spills at sea.

A personal robot that carries items between different parts of a home is helping people with mobility issues live more independently.

Dutch company Xyrec recently demonstrated a 67-ton industrial robot that uses lasers to quickly strip paint from aircraft.

A robot avatar that mimics the motions of a human controller could take the place of workers in dangerous jobs by the end of 2022.

UK researchers have developed a small, flexible, snake-like "magnetic tentacle robot" to navigate deep into the lungs.

An android child capable of expressing six emotions puts us one step closer to a future in which we share our homes with companion robots.

A shape-shifting material lets multifunctional robots morph from one shape to the next quickly and without the use of motors.

Boston Dynamics’ second commercial offering is a warehouse robot named Stretch that can lift and move 800, 50-pound boxes every hour.

Canadian startup Cobioni has built a vaccine robot that can deliver a dose into a patient’s arm without a needle or any human help.

MIT has developed an AI capable of robot design — all you need to do is tell RoboGrammar the bot’s goal and the available body parts.

MIT converted a robo-dog built by Boston Dynamics into a robot doctor and then asked patients how they felt being treated by it.

Soft robots could get more muscular with a new soft gel that becomes tougher when subjected to vibration.

Autonomous vehicle maker Nuro has added external airbags to its autonomous delivery robots to protect pedestrians.

The spherical Daedalus robot may explore lunar caves during future ESA moon missions, looking for places that could potentially host human settlements.

At the Dawn Avatar Robot Café in Tokyo, diners are served by robotic avatars controlled remotely by people with disabilities.

The FDA has approved its first surgery robot for use during a vaginal hysterectomy, which is less invasive than the abdominal approach.

Toyota’s cleaning robot has demonstrated new skills, revealing an ability to detect clear objects and snap perfect selfies.

A life-life robot dog might be an effective — or even preferable — alternative to a living therapy dog, according to a new study.

A robot that automates a common technique for animal cloning has been used to produce a litter of pigs in China.

Four robot dogs are heading to a Florida Air Force base to serve as security patrol, marking the U.S. military’s first full-time deployment of a robot dog.

A team of researchers wants to build robots out of ice and send them to space. The icy bots can use found materials to rebuild themselves.

War is changing. As drones replace snipers, we must consider the ethics of machines making life or death decisions.

A military school recently used Spot, a robot dog developed by Boston Dynamics, during combat training exercises.

In an effort to study mysterious ocean eddies, an oceanographer teamed up with a bionics company to build an AUV inspired by penguins.

The Grain Weevil robot helps farmers manage stored grain, keeping them out of bins where they might lose their lives to grain entrapment.

Sophia the robot has created digital art that will be linked to an NFT and sold — making her the latest to join the art world’s current craze.

At a smart farm in Australia, robots and AI will do all the manual labor, potentially foreshadowing agriculture’s "hands-free" future.

A back-poking robot can trigger presence hallucinations in people with Parkinson’s disease, giving researchers a way to finally study the phenomenon.

“Quantum ballerina” Merritt Moore choreographed duets during lockdown — and then programmed a dancing robot to perform them with her.

23% of fish sold in the US is caught illegally. This robot boat is a poacher’s worst nightmare.

Take an exclusive ride in the vehicle with no steering wheel that’s aiming to make car ownership a thing of the past.

AMP Robotics has developed a recycling robot that uses AI to sort recyclables twice as quickly as humans can.

An English ambulance service has begun using robot paramedics to deliver mechanical CPR to patients.

The startup, Phykos, has sent ​​a prototype of a solar-powered watercraft on a carbon-sequestering cruise in the Pacific Ocean, using an innovative kelp forest.

To escape the uncanny valley, Disney created a humanoid robot that mimics the minor eye and head movements people make during interactions.

A Facebook robot that wraps fiber-optic cables around power lines could help bridge the digital divide by expanding internet access.

Carbon Robotics’ Autonomous Weeder is a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then kills them using high-power lasers.

A modified version of Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot could be the ideal Mars rover for exploring caves and other underground structures.

A Columbia University study suggests that empathy between robots may be possible — and the skill could make the bots more useful to humans.

Facebook's AI lab has released new tools for its embodied AI training platform, including one to train a home robot to respond to sounds.

A traditional lung biopsy is incredibly invasive, but new tech is allowing doctors to get ahead of lung cancer and give patients a fighting chance.

Toyota built a cleaning robot that descends from a kitchen's ceiling as an example of the kind of tech that might one day support Earth’s aging population.

A man in Florida has invented a contact lens robot to insert or extract lenses for people with hand tremors or dexterity issues.

Researchers in Korea have made a color changing robot that matches its background colors — a precursor to future active camouflage technology.

Japanese company Skeletonics has developed a new exoskeleton that lets you enter the boxing ring as a nine-foot-tall robot.

Researchers have developed a microbot-containing, magnetically controlled catheter for removing blood from brain hemorrhages.

The U.S.’s first firefighting robot helped keep LAFD firefighters safe while they battled a blaze in downtown Los Angeles.

The dog-inspired SPOT framework effectively trains an AI robot more quickly than other reinforcement learning methods.

According to MIT's Kate Darling, robots are more like animals, not humans.

This robot dolphin could replace the real ones forced to entertain people at marine park exhibits across the globe.

A robot fish that uses human heart cells to swim has put scientists one step closer to growing full-size hearts in the lab.

Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have designed the first robot capable of not only playing music, but creating it.

The new Mayflower, set to traverse the Atlantic in 2021, won’t bear any pilgrims. It’s a robot boat, sailing sailor-free.

For SXSW’s AI Painting Project, a robot arm was trained to generate paintings based on given concepts and using a limited number of brushstrokes.

Miso Robotics is making Flippy ROAR available for $30,000 in the hopes the robot cook will help the restaurant industry recover from the pandemic.

Toyota has broken ground on Woven City, a futuristic city prototype where the technologies of tomorrow can be tested en masse.

A massive farm robot is analyzing crops in Arizona, helping identify ones that could grow in hotter climates to help secure the future of food.

A robot-run coronavirus hospital in Wuhan, China, is just one remarkable example of how technology is helping combat the global COVID-19 outbreak.

The Adidas Futurecraft team has unveiled a pair of sustainable shoes made by a robot that weaves individual threads like it's creating string art.

A recent discovery about the synchronized fireflies' amazing light shows could help researchers acquire fresh insight into swarm robotics.

With a modified joystick, surgeons in one hospital may control a robotic arm at another location to safely operate on a patient.

Tech requires raw material, and some lays at the bottom of the sea. Could underwater robots be the future of deep sea mining?

DoNotPay’s robot lawyer can now help people write and send letters to inmates without worrying about violating a facility’s mail rules.

European researchers have developed an AI robot to safely work alongside humans, anticipating their needs and providing a strong pair of extra hands.

A smart robot that uses neuromorphic computing, may one day “think” like humans.

Scientists made a robot that can keep up with flying insects, helping researchers understand flight physics.

The chameleon lizard has a highly specialized tongue. Now, a team of engineers created a quick-tongued robot.

Chinese company Neolix’s delivery robot has proven to be an instrumental — and versatile — weapon in China’ fight against the novel coronavirus.

Could robotic dolphins help marine parks become more humane spaces where people can learn about and connect with nature?

Pittsburgh International Airport is using cleaning robots modified with ultraviolet light fixtures in an effort to kill the coronavirus.

Spain is buying a fleet of robots to increase coronavirus testing from 20,000 COVID-19 tests daily to 80,000, according to officials.

IBM’s new online platform, RoboRXN, combines artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and robotics to automate the COVID-19 drug development process.

A man paralyzed from the neck down used a brain computer interface to control two robot arms — a big step in the field of mind-controlled prosthetics.

From the "cobots" that could steal your job to the cuter, emotional robots already living in our homes, this series provides an in-depth look at what’s to come in the not-too-distant future of robotic technology.

Meet the classroom assistant of the future, a robot for autism therapy that’s teaching special needs students about empathy and emotions.

Artists have a history of subverting expectations and mainstream culture, but the world’s first humanoid robot artist is taking it to a new level. So far, she has sold over $1 million worth of art.

Can robots control us? Probably not, but they can influence our actions, as this recent study on human-robot interaction by Carnegie Mellon shows.

Sending construction robots into outer space will help pave the way for human exploration, but there are some real challenges that lie ahead.