Robotics

A powerful diagnosis tool may one day be in millions of smartphones.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected its first Mars rock sample, which the agency plans to send to Earth in 2031.

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

NASA paid Colorado startup Lunar Outpost $.10 as part of a moon mining contract that could help advance human space exploration.

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

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

A human rights lawyer is trying to get the Afghan girls robotics team evacuated to Canada so its members can avoid living under Taliban rule.

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

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

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