Can a scrappy team of robotics undergrads play to win against the best-funded labs in the world? At the Darpa Challenge, it’s anyone’s...
Science / Robots
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What do you get when you slap 3D-printed raptor legs on a quadcopter? A robot that can land like a falcon to keep an eye on the...
Mesobot looks like a giant AirPods case, but it's in fact a sophisticated machine that tracks animals making the most epic migration on...
Meet SpaceBok, a little four-legged machine that's taking the first steps toward walking on the Red Planet's brutal...
Each copter doesn’t just track where the others are. It constantly predicts where they’ll...
Restaurants are struggling to hire people, so one Jersey Shore grill employed a machine. It confirms that humans remain...
The Hardened Underwater Modular Robot Snake has thrusters for muscles and a camera for a face. Your move,...
Robotics ethicist Kate Darling surveys our history with animals—in work, war, and companionship—to show how we might develop similar relationships with...
Ambi Robotics is using years of research in robot manipulation to teach machines how to get a grip. The secret? Giving them suction cups for...
Called Stretch, the machine may look wildly different than its famous cousins Spot and Atlas, but it shares a ton of their...
A lot of thermal energy is trapped in the ocean. An ex-NASA researcher has figured out how it might generate unlimited clean power for aquatic...
Kick over this robot and it’ll quickly right itself—not because someone told it how, but because it taught itself to overcome the...
Researchers slap a living antenna on a drone to give the machine an insanely keen sense of smell. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the...
