Robotics

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.