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New roach-inspired robot withstands 1 million times the weight of its own
A new roach-inspired robot scurries at the speed of a cockroach, and can withstand the weight of a human, which is approximately 1 million times the weight of the robot.
Be wary of robot emotions; 'simulated love is never love'
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When a robot "dies," does it make you sad? For lots of people, the answer is "yes" — and that tells us something important, and potentially worrisome, about our emotional...
Parkour Atlas
Atlas does parkour. The control software uses the whole body including legs, arms and torso, to marshal the energy and strength for jumping over the log and ...
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Explore the World’s Coolest Robots, All in One Place
New IEEE site features 200 robots from 19 countries with hundreds of photos, videos, and interactives to get people excited about robotics and STEM
Inside the Rethink Robotics shutdown
Former Rethink Robotics distributors and integrators share what went wrong with the cobot pioneer, which went out of business in October 2018.
Singapore introduces a robot cop with fat tires and a 360-degree camera
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'Hi-tech robot' at Russia forum turns out to be man in suit
State television praised the ‘modern’ tech despite photos revealing actor in costume
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Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people
Dawn is an inspirational marriage of technology and humanity.
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NASA's InSight Robot Is Listening For Marsquakes. Here's Why That Rocks
NASA's quite literally groundbreaking InSight robot has just successfully landed on Mars, and one of it's missions is to look for Martian earthquakes, or marsquakes. Wondering why you should care…
Kroger And Ocado Plan To Build First Automated Robot Warehouse In Ohio
Kroger and Ocado announced they would build their first automated robot warehouse in Monroe, Ohio. The $55 million investment will bring 410 new jobs to Monroe, a suburb north of Cincinnati. Kroger…
These robots fly and swim just like animals
German company Festo hopes to learn from the natural world to improve the future of automated machines.
This Little Robot Broke My Heart
I know I’m not going to have a robot zipping around my home, working through random chores, anytime soon. But is a simple autonomous companion so much to ask for? Anki’s new Vector bot wants to be your robotic sidekick, but as it looks
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ROBOTS: Your Guide to the World of Robotics
The world's largest catalog of robots, drones, and self-driving cars, with thousands of photos, videos, tech specs, news, games, and tutorials.
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Block party: scientists celebrate robot that can play Jenga
MIT researchers develop machine with physical skills needed to master children’s game
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Do You Take This Robot …
Today we fall in love through our phones. Maybe your phone itself could be just as satisfying?
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Release the hounds: Continental's CES 2019 concept is a robot-spawning robot
A city full of little robot dogs delivering packages sounds pretty great.
In Design
The case against anthropomorphizing robots
It’s a violation against one of Dieter Rams’s key principles of good design, according to the author of one new study.
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Robot struck and killed by self-driving Tesla in Las Vegas at CES
Tesla has found itself the cause of yet another self-driving car accident – and this time, its victim was a $2,000-per-day rentable humanoid robot. Promobot says the damage to its bot is likely…
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