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How paleo-robots could help reveal the secret to life's transition to land

Fossils and computer models are great, but nothing feels as satisfying as reviving extinct animals as robots.

The Picotaur robot is nimble and weighs less than a grain of rice

Picotaur is less that 1 cm with impressive mobility from its innovative legs.

This Robot Dentist Just Performed Its First Procedure on a Human—Here’s What You Need to Know

The robot dentist can fix your cavities in 15 minutes. But would you trust it?

DeepMind's new AI robot can probably beat you in ping pong

It won't win any Olympic medals just yet, but the robot is probably the best ping-pong machine ever built.

This small robot is the 'jumpiest' ever created — it can jump over Big Ben

This type of robot could help us better explore the moon or Mars.

NASA sends "message in a bottle" onboard spacecraft headed for ocean world

The Clipper's metal plate is much like the Voyager golden records meant to introduce planet Earth and its Earthlings to alien civilizations.

Meet the smallest and fastest robot-insects ever developed

The mini-bug and water strider open up new realms in the field of small robots.

Meet Dragon Firefighter: A robot that uses water to fly

The robot spews water from its body, resembling how dragons are depicted spouting fire from their mouths in movies and books.

Scientists create healing microbots made of human skin cells

Scientists have developed free-swimming biological robots using human tracheal cells. These tiny machines can heal your body from the inside.

This amazing robot will clean your room for you — and will remember what you want

It's all fun and games until the robots start cleaning our rooms.

Futuristic bionic hand syncs with the brain and skeleton, bridging robotics and biology

This artificial hand has transformed the life of a women living with a below elbow amputation. Can it bring the same positive change for others?

World's first mass-produced humanoid robot wants to solve China's aging population problem

It's a major step up in robotics.

Researchers tried out AI preachers -- and it didn't go so well

AI may look all set to replace human artists, engineers, writers, and coders, but preachers are probably safe.

Morphobot: this robot can move like a rover and fly like a drone

It's was inspired by some animals' diverse mobility skills

This new robot chef can recreate recipes just from watching food videos

It’s a big step towards automation of cooking.

These cute, talking robot heads like gossip and could help us understand hearing better

Would you like to host a bunch of talking robot heads at your home. If yes, you must be willing to listen to them because they talk a lot.

Researchers create centipede robots that can save people from earthquake rubble

The more legs a robot has, the better. At least sometimes.

Meet Icefin, the torpedo robot that studies the Doomsday Glacier from down below

Torpedo-shaped Icefin robot can go to insane depths beneath ice and help us understand what's making the doomsday glacier melt so fast.

Watch this robot 3D print yummy cheesecakes

We're closer than ever to witnessing a 3D food printing revolution. These cheesecakes are a delicious proof of what's coming.

This firefighting robot could help human firefighters escape danger unscathed

If there is a fire emergency, here is a firefighter robot that will go in first. So that human firefighters face minimum risk.

This lizard-like robot can outperform Mars rovers

Here is a lizard-inspired robot that is as creepy and fascinating as real lizards, and wishes to explore Mars.

Shape-shifting “Terminator robot” escapes prison just like in the movies

The world needs a good terminator, and seems like now we have one.

Over a quarter of water is lost through leakage. These small "AI pipebots" could fix that

In the not-too-distant future, AI pipebots could be patrolling inside our water pipes. They will ensure no drop of clean water leaks out.

Juicy bots: Withering passion fruit gives rise to a robot that can clean space junk

The patterns formed on a withering passion fruit hold valuable insights for designing robots.

New exoskeleton leaves the lab, steps into the real world -- and adapts on the fly

This is science at its finest.

Six major tech companies pledge not to weaponize AI, but will politicians follow their lead?

With AI and robots becoming increasingly capable, such pledges are more and more important.

Corner stores in Japan hire robot stackers to help keep shelves full on the cheap

Faced with a severe labor shortage, Japanese businesses are betting on AI.

A robot surgeon called MIRA can perform surgeries in outer space

It could also allow doctors to perform surgeries remotely in rural and underprivileged areas.

You may not believe it, but this robotic hand can imagine its next move  

Robots are starting to think about themselves.

Chinese Communist Party wants to use an AI algorithm to "read minds" and test the loyalty of its members

The Chinese government is leaving no stone unturned to have complete control on everything and everyone.

Robots that read human body language promise to boost productivity without taking our jobs

Body language detection marks a new paradigm shift in human-robot interactions in an industrial setting.

These self-healing robot fish can gobble up the microplastics from our seas

Maybe not man but robots can save the world from plastic.

Researchers develop 'living skin' and graft it onto a robotic finger

Researchers have successfully grown self-healing ‘human-like’ skin on a robotic finger.

A group of students creates a graffiti-drawing robot, and it's quite good at making art

It's not perfect, but it's a start!

Ultra-large ship on autopilot completes the first automated transatlantic voyage

Although not yet fully automated, this is an impressive feat still!

So what happens when a robot files for a patent?

Existing laws only allow for humans as creators -- but some are fighting to change this.

This tiny robot crab is the smallest crawling remote-controlled robot ever

It's so small it's almost invisible to the naked eye.

These tiny soft robots can monitor complex environments ranging from deserts to the hot lunar surface

They can get the job done just by using heat and light.

One Japanese railway company build huge, humanoid robots to repair its power lines

I've never wanted to be a railway worker as much as I do right now.

Chewing and tasting as you go is the skill robots need to be better cooks -- and this bot learned to do it

We're one step closer to having auto-chefs worth their salt!

Pompeii enlists robot dog to inspect the ancient’s city streets

A new solution for a pretty old place.

Scientists use tiny molecular robots to transport cargo for the first time

Japanese scientists created a robot army that contains DNA. These fascinating molecular robots soon might get brains too.

These hard-bodied robots can reproduce, learn and evolve autonomously

Virtual code has become virtual DNA.

New microbots can travel to the brain via the nose and deliver treatments

The microbots are applied nasally to treat brain diseases.

New four-legged robots designed to work together to accomplish difficult tasks

Teamwork makes the dream work.

Submersible robots help us better understand ocean health and carbon flows

Good bots.

Ingenuity has flown a full mile over Mars, and broken its altitude record

Our first Mars helicopter is busy growing into its own.

A drone-flying software outperforms human pilots for the first time

It's not ready for commercial applications, but the potential is there.

New AI training approach could finally allow computers to have imaginations

Just you wait until we figure out how to code ADHD.

Drones can elicit emotions from people, which could help integrate them into society more easily

Joy, sadness, fear, anger, and surprise were the easiest to recognize.

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