Robots(Page 10)

The latest creations and innovations in automated machines.

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Prospero the Swarming Farmbot Wants to Show You the Future of Agriculture
Environment

Prospero the Swarming Farmbot Wants to Show You the Future of Agriculture

By Clay Dillow

PopSci Q&A: How the Rheon Machine Stuffs Any Food Into Any Other Food
Technology

PopSci Q&A: How the Rheon Machine Stuffs Any Food Into Any Other Food

By Rebecca Boyle

PopSci Q&A: A Robot Masters the Art of Chicken Deboning
Technology

PopSci Q&A: A Robot Masters the Art of Chicken Deboning

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: After Robot-Assisted Rehab and a Dose of Chemicals, Paralyzed Rats Walk Again
Technology

Video: After Robot-Assisted Rehab and a Dose of Chemicals, Paralyzed Rats Walk Again

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: In Breakthrough Study, Paralyzed Patients Move a Robotic Arm With Their Own Thoughts
Technology

Video: In Breakthrough Study, Paralyzed Patients Move a Robotic Arm With Their Own Thoughts

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Bizarrely Realistic Japanese Robotic Buttocks Responds to Slaps
Technology

Video: Bizarrely Realistic Japanese Robotic Buttocks Responds to Slaps

By Dan Nosowitz

Rough Sketch: “I Build Flying Robots”
Technology

Rough Sketch: “I Build Flying Robots”

By Vijay Kumar as told to Flora Lichtman

Who Is To Blame When A Robotic Car Crashes?
Technology

Who Is To Blame When A Robotic Car Crashes?

By Jacob Ward

Telepresence Robots Will Join Doctors on Their Rounds in Singapore Next Month
Technology

Telepresence Robots Will Join Doctors on Their Rounds in Singapore Next Month

By Clay Dillow

Video: Robot Squirrel Confuses a Snake
Technology

Video: Robot Squirrel Confuses a Snake

By Rebecca Boyle

An Ocean of Data: Looking for Sunken Treasure in a New Way
Science

An Ocean of Data: Looking for Sunken Treasure in a New Way

By Brooke Borel

how-it-works illustration of an Underground Robot Library
Technology

How It Works: Underground Robot Library

By Kalee Thompson

Will People Alive Today Have the Opportunity to Upload Their Consciousness to a New Robotic Body?
Technology

Will People Alive Today Have the Opportunity to Upload Their Consciousness to a New Robotic Body?

By Clay Dillow

Survey Establishes What Kids Want From Robots: Homework Help and Friendship
Technology

Survey Establishes What Kids Want From Robots: Homework Help and Friendship

By Rebecca Boyle

The USAF’s X-37B Secret Space Plane Appears to Be Tracking China’s New Space Station
Technology

The USAF’s X-37B Secret Space Plane Appears to Be Tracking China’s New Space Station

By Clay Dillow

Video: Leaping Lizards’ Helpful Tails Inspire New Robot Design
Technology

Video: Leaping Lizards’ Helpful Tails Inspire New Robot Design

By Rebecca Boyle

State of the Bionic Art: The Best Replacements for My Flimsy Human Parts
Technology

State of the Bionic Art: The Best Replacements for My Flimsy Human Parts

By Dan Nosowitz

A New Generation of Throwbots is Ready to Be Flung Into Battle
Technology

A New Generation of Throwbots is Ready to Be Flung Into Battle

By Clay Dillow

Sandia’s Gemini-Scout: A Rescue Robot Optimized for Mining Disasters
Technology

Sandia’s Gemini-Scout: A Rescue Robot Optimized for Mining Disasters

By Clay Dillow

American Soccer Robots Dominate at the World RoboCup 2011
Technology

American Soccer Robots Dominate at the World RoboCup 2011

By Rebecca Boyle

Inside ITER
Technology

Inside the World’s Largest Fusion Reactor

By Brooke Borel

Obama Announces $500 Million Investment in Robots and Other Advanced Manufacturing Tech
Technology

Obama Announces $500 Million Investment in Robots and Other Advanced Manufacturing Tech

By Rebecca Boyle

Celebrity Scandal Revealed: Last Week’s Hottest Japanese Pop Star Isn’t a Real Human
Technology

Celebrity Scandal Revealed: Last Week’s Hottest Japanese Pop Star Isn’t a Real Human

By Clay Dillow

Patient Elects to Have Hand Amputated to Make Way for a Bionic One
Technology

Patient Elects to Have Hand Amputated to Make Way for a Bionic One

By Clay Dillow

Girl Scout Team Patents Prosthetic Hand Device, Helping a Toddler Write For the First Time
Technology

Girl Scout Team Patents Prosthetic Hand Device, Helping a Toddler Write For the First Time

By Rebecca Boyle

Meet Japan’s Earthquake Search-and-Rescue Robots
Technology

Meet Japan’s Earthquake Search-and-Rescue Robots

By Dan Nosowitz

Pigging the Unpiggable: Robots Keep Gas Lines From Blowing Up
Technology

Pigging the Unpiggable: Robots Keep Gas Lines From Blowing Up

By Elizabeth Svoboda

Some Japanese Patients Shun Robot Helpers, Throwing High-Tech Future of Elder Care Into Doubt
Technology

Some Japanese Patients Shun Robot Helpers, Throwing High-Tech Future of Elder Care Into Doubt

By Rebecca Boyle

Bat Ears Could Inspire New Sensing Technology For Robots and Autonomous Vehicles
Technology

Bat Ears Could Inspire New Sensing Technology For Robots and Autonomous Vehicles

By Rebecca Boyle

In Warmup Match, Jeopardy All-Stars Defeated By IBM’s Supercomputer Watson
Technology

In Warmup Match, Jeopardy All-Stars Defeated By IBM’s Supercomputer Watson

By Dan Nosowitz

Build Your Own DARwIn-OP, the Open-Source Humanoid Robot
Technology

Build Your Own DARwIn-OP, the Open-Source Humanoid Robot

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Personal Massage ‘Bot Drives Around Your Back For a Gentle Caress
Technology

Video: Personal Massage ‘Bot Drives Around Your Back For a Gentle Caress

By Rebecca Boyle

You Built What?! A Supersize Robotic Chess Set
Technology

You Built What?! A Supersize Robotic Chess Set

By Gregory Mone

Bat Research Inspires Disciplines Far Beyond Biology
Environment

Bat Research Inspires Disciplines Far Beyond Biology

By Rebecca Boyle

Mint Floor-Cleaning Robot Review: A Swiffer Without the Swiffer
Technology

Mint Floor-Cleaning Robot Review: A Swiffer Without the Swiffer

By Lizzie Schiffman

A Robot With Coffee-Filled Balloons For Hands Is The Best Grabber Yet
Technology

A Robot With Coffee-Filled Balloons For Hands Is The Best Grabber Yet

By Rebecca Boyle

Robots Are Stealing American Jobs, According to MIT Economist
Technology

Robots Are Stealing American Jobs, According to MIT Economist

By Rebecca Boyle

In New Study, Babies Think A Silvery Robot Is Human, As Long As It Acts Friendly
Technology

In New Study, Babies Think A Silvery Robot Is Human, As Long As It Acts Friendly

By Dan Nosowitz

Meet RatCar, a Japanese Robot Car Controlled By a Rat’s Brain
Technology

Meet RatCar, a Japanese Robot Car Controlled By a Rat’s Brain

By Rebecca Boyle

Technology

Finding Nature’s Most Efficient Flight Mechanism

By Rebecca Boyle

The Future of the Military — Perhaps
Technology

The Future of the Military — Perhaps

By James Vlahos

A homemade robot at the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition in New York City.
Technology

Robotic adventures at the FIRST competition

By Paul Gleason

A WowWee Roboraptor with a flame coming out of its mouth to toast some charred marshmallows.
DIY

A fire-breathing bot

By Dave Prochnow

A monkey mask on the ground next to a skinned robotic monkey head.
DIY

Scare tactics

By Theodore Gray and Paul Wallich

The Future of Robots
Technology

The Future of Robots

By Ray Kurzweil. Photo essay text Eric Mika

Technology

5 paths to the walking, talking, pie-baking humanoid robot

By Gregory Mone

Technology

Robots R Us

By Ray Kurzweil

Technology

Vex Robotics Design System’s Inventor’s Guide

By Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute

ROCKET OF DOOM
Technology

The Man Who Mistook His Girlfriend for a Robot

By Dan Ferber