Field: Robotics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.K. company Blue Abyss has submitted plans to build a massive aquatic facility in Cornwall, England, and its centerpiece will be the world’s deepest pool.

Japan is sending a transforming moon rover to the lunar surface in 2022 to collect data that will inform an upcoming crewed mission.

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

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

Monarch Tractor’s all-electric, self-driving tractor could save farmers money, while also benefiting the environment.

An ankle exoskeleton that significantly increases self-selected walking speed could make it easier for older people to get around.

Neurolutions’ IpsiHand — a brain-computer interface that uses an exoskeleton to assist with stroke rehab — has been authorized by the FDA.

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

This robot’s thought process isn’t a secret — researchers gave the AI the ability to share its internal monologue with humans.

Inspired by bat’s ears, researchers at Virginia Tech have created a device capable of pinpointing sound location more accurately than other tech — or our ears.

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has made history on Mars, achieving the first controlled flight on another planet.

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.

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

Made from the stem cells of a frog, “Xenobots” are tiny living machines. And researchers have just debuted version 2.0.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Bluebots, robotic fish developed at Harvard, are the first to demonstrate complex swarm behaviors underwater.

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.

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

A spider-like moon rover heading to the lunar surface in 2021 is designed to explore the underground lava tubes in which astronauts might one day live.

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

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.

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

A VR exoskeleton called the Holotron works with a person’s entire lower body to let them control the locomotion of an avatar in VR.

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

A massive iceberg is expected to hit South Georgia Island. To assess the impact of the collision, researchers are deploying a pair of robot submarines.

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.

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

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.

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

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

MIT launches a new autonomous boat — a fleet of floating platforms that could come together to build bridges, taxi people across a river, or create a party platform.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Researchers have designed semiconductor legs for microbots. Laser activated, they are the first capable of being controlled by standard electronic signals.

A tiny origami-inspired robot assists surgeons in a mock surgery.

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

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.

Coating implantable electronics in the polymer PEDOT can extend their life, which could make cyborgs more common in the future.

A Japanese construction company has robots taking over jobs that are understaffed, due to a labor shortage.

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

NASA plans to launch its Mars 2020 rover on July 30. Here’s what you need to know about the agency’s latest Mars mission.

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

Innovation in the construction industry has been stagnant for decades, but the use of construction robotics could radically alter the way we build.

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

A new exosuit helps stroke survivors overcome hemiparesis by assisting them in making two key walking motions with their feet.

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

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

Slowing infection rates in New York, a robot that's delivering vital supplies, and other fresh coronavirus news updates.

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

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

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.

Icefin, a semi-autonomous research vessel, is on a mission to search for clues about one of the continent’s fastest melting glaciers, the Thwaites Glacier.

Self-driving cars have the potential to save thousands of lives and reduce carbon emissions. Will we be smart enough to hop on board?

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

For the first time, a microbot powered by soft actuators has achieved controlled flight.

These tiny, robotic machines can deliver drugs directly to infected cells, and they're changing the future of medicine.

The issue with completely taking humans out of warfare? Our ability to feel and evaluate complex situations, using human judgement and moral understanding, is not something an artificial intelligence can easily learn.

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

Beyond the brains of even the most intelligent human beings lies artificial superintelligence, which could pose serious threats to the human race. Nick Bostrom is attempting to fathom the unfathomable so we can be ready.

An ever-increasing number of robots in the workplace may force us to change our perception of the sort of work we deem worthy of human minds and hands. Instead of stealing our jobs, think of robots as taking on the duties nobody really wants, anyway.

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

Meet BUDDY, an advanced robot designed with an expressive face and gentle voice. With human-like emotions and different moods, BUDDY has the ability to care for the elderly and his human companions.

These robots can lift heavy objects, crawl through rugged terrain, and climb challenging structures to save lives. But search and rescue robots won’t be rendering human first responders obsolete anytime soon. They’re designed to assist and protect them from unnecessary harm.

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.

According to OSHA, one in five workplace deaths in 2017 were in construction. Can nail gun drones help save lives?

Meet the group of medical professionals that’s delivering babies from robots to prepare for real-life emergencies in the hospital room.

Alec McMorris is testing one of the world’s most advanced prosthetics - an AI powered bionic leg.

"There's a deep, deep relationship between the functionality of the device and a person's identity of what their body is."

What can lift 500 pounds in each hand, walk for miles and miles with a heavy load, or leap over obstacles in a single bound? Humans - with the help of wearable robotics.

How do you bounce back from a life-changing car accident? Adam Gorlitsky decided he would break a world record.

Exoskeletons aren't just science fiction anymore. Wearable robots are helping kids with cerebral palsy walk.

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Robert is paralyzed. But thanks to a robotic exoskeleton, he can walk again.

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Part Wheelchair. Part Robot. Is this the future of accessibility?