Taser maker offers electric-shock drones to stop school shootings For $50,000 annually plus building work, budget-strapped teachers can (maybe) zap gunmen, for the kids Personal Tech03 Jun 2022 | 192
World’s smallest remote-controlled robots are smaller than a flea Video So small, you can't feel it crawl Science27 May 2022 | 34
Human-made hopper out-leaps rival robots in artificial jumping contest Applications in lunar exploration and Earth-bound locomotion are possible Science01 May 2022 | 29
Amazon to spend 11 days of annual profit developing robot warehouse workers Who will win? Staff unions or $1bn of venture capital? Personal Tech21 Apr 2022 | 14
AI with an improvisational streak is under development Robots need to learn to adapt to chaotic humans, says German researcher AI + ML19 Apr 2022 | 7
China rolls out bots to enforce ‘temporary closed-off management’ of Shanghai Drones, delivery-bots and robo-sprayers at work in locked-down megacity Personal Tech06 Apr 2022 | 17
Boston Dynamics' latest robot is a warehouse workhorse When does this thing get to unionize? Science02 Apr 2022 | 37
Japanese startup makes baby carrier-style sling for 'Love Robots' Fittings open on Saturday, to make it easier to take motorized pals with you wherever you go Bootnotes01 Apr 2022 | 33
Google helps develop AI-driven lab machine to diagnose Parkinson's Robo-worker manipulates test tubes and pipettes, images skin cells to classify disease AI + ML25 Mar 2022 | 15
Robot vacuum cleaner employed by Brit budget hotel chain Travelodge flees Unit dragged back to work after being found under hedge a day later Bootnotes24 Jan 2022 | 59
At 9 for every 100 workers, robots are rife in Singapore – so we decided to visit them Feature They're guiding kids through museums, moving food in mega-kitchens – and cleaning where you can't see them Personal Tech05 Jan 2022 | 22
Boffins demonstrate a different kind of floppy disk: A legless robot that hops along a surface This is fine Science08 Dec 2021 | 20
AI-enhanced frog stem cells start to replicate in entirely new ways Xenobots scoop up loose cells to make more of themselves. We welcome our new overlords Science30 Nov 2021 | 30
Japanese bloke collared after using AI software to uncensor smut and flogging it In brief Plus: Explore the limits of language models in bizarre research experiment, and more AI + ML23 Oct 2021 | 47
University, Nvidia team teaches robots to get a grip with OpenAI's CLIP Gone are the days where you have to show a machine a gazillion images in different poses and lighting conditions AI + ML01 Oct 2021 | 2
Nvidia cosies up to Open Robotics for hardware-accelerated ROS Hopes to tempt roboticists over to its Jetson platform with new simulation features, drop-in acceleration code AI + ML22 Sep 2021 | 2
Japan, Singapore, perhaps the whole world.... Get ready for robot waiters from Softbank and Keenon Automation is the answer to labor shortages, social distancing, apparently Personal Tech22 Sep 2021 | 25
Businesses put robots to work when human workers are hard to find, argue econo-boffins The lure of shiny new tech isn't a motivator, although in the USA bots are used to cut costs AI + ML17 Sep 2021 | 15
Tesla promises to build robot you could beat up – or beat in a race May have unbeatable powers of distraction as automaker talks up its coming-soon-now AI supercomputer and glosses over product delays AI + ML20 Aug 2021 | 76
Boston Dynamics spends months training its Atlas robots to perform one minute of parkour almost perfectly Video Sarah Connor is safe for now AI + ML18 Aug 2021 | 58
Xiaomi builds a robot dog out of smartphone cameras and an Nvidia edge AI board Who's an open-source boy? The $1500 CyberDog, that's who Personal Tech11 Aug 2021 | 14
With Alphabet's legendary commitment to products, we can't wait to see what its robotics biz Intrinsic achieves Google parent hopes to inject AI into factory machines AI + ML23 Jul 2021 | 19
Impromptu game of Robot Wars sparks fire in warehouse at UK e-tailer Ocado Three-way crash harms no humans but shutters fulfilment centre and sees orders galore cancelled AI + ML19 Jul 2021 | 78
Robots still suck. It's all they can do to stand up – never mind rise up Feature Simultaneous localisation and mapping is hard so for the foreseeable future ’bots will remain bolted down AI + ML07 Jul 2021 | 55
Boffins decide what world really needs is indestructible robot cockroaches It's fine: they'll just be used for searching disaster sites, checking structures, spying on people Science06 Jul 2021 | 30
Exoskeleton startup wants to slap robot arms on schoolkids For educational purposes, of course Personal Tech01 Jul 2021 | 16
Sony 'Workman', anyone? Consumer giant teams with Kawasaki on teleoperated ‘bots Japan’s ageing population and COVID inspire JV to create remote work platform biz Software24 May 2021 | 8
When humanity perishes in nuclear fire, the University of Essex's radiation-resistant robots will inherit the Earth Never mind the Clacton-on-Sea pier. They've got £600k to build power plant butlers Science21 May 2021 | 11
NYPD puts down $94k robot canine contract after outcry Digidog will be returned to its Boston Dynamics owners AI + ML30 Apr 2021 | 50
US Army develops natural-language voice-command AI for robots, tanks, etc. For search'n'rescue. For now Judge, JUDI, and executioner? AI + ML21 Apr 2021 | 32
Plot twist! South Korean telco uses 5G to fight coronavirus via hospital-patrolling robot Modified Keemi disinfects, takes temperatures, tells you off for not socially distancing Networks19 Apr 2021 | 12
Tools down: Singapore’s training bots and drones to digitize construction work Research agency and housing board sign a deal as COVID-19 makes manpower and materials scarce Science30 Mar 2021 | 3
What links ML, lasers, and tiny gold-plated micro-bots? Answer: Smart medicines 'Drug delivery would certainly be an intriguing application,' prof tells us AI + ML26 Mar 2021 | 8
Watch it go: World's smallest self-folding origami bird that reminds us we were promised nanobots at some point Video Remember the dream of microscale machines? They may look like this Science19 Mar 2021 | 33
In the lab: Robotic AI-powered exoskeletons to help disabled people move freely without implants With kill switches to stop the gear going off the rails AI + ML18 Mar 2021 | 15
Soft-shell robot uses snailfish features to sail though Mariana Trench stress test Deep sea submersible may help humans explore deepest oceans Science05 Mar 2021 | 13
Megabucks in funding, 28 years of research, and Boston Dynamics is to be 'sold to Hyundai' for 1/40th of an Arm So what does that make it, a leg? A toe? Science10 Dec 2020 | 15
Study: While text-generating AI can write like humans, it lacks common sense Humans live in the real world, machines don't, say academics AI + ML20 Nov 2020 | 61
First they came for chess, then Go... and now, oh for crying out loud, AI systems can beat us at curling Video Robot named Curly bends it like Beckham in 'chess on ice' smackdown AI + ML26 Sep 2020 | 34
What the world needs now is socially-distant robots, says Japan Takes its domestic standard for human/robot interactions to the ISO to get moving machines working with humans in hospitals and beyond Science03 Sep 2020 | 6
Autonomous robots that can be injected? Not as far off as it sounds, say boffins, thanks to new ion-powered silicon legs Push off, you can't be serious... Science27 Aug 2020 | 11
Eye see you're having surgery: Origami inspires tiny, super-accurate robot surgeon Research showed 'reduced deviation' when it made a 0.5mm x 0.5mm slice Science27 Jul 2020 | 13
You've think you've heard it all about automation in technology? Get a load of this robot that plugs in cables Video You wanted an android butler? Well, first it's gotta learn to hold a wire, then we can talk about folding sheets Science14 Jul 2020 | 19
NASA mulls going all steam-punk with a fleet of jumping robots to explore Saturn and Jupiter's mysterious moons I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Science26 Jun 2020 | 41
Korean boffins build COVID-bot to shove a swab right up your hooter VIDEO Yes, this will help health pros. But after seeing it thrust a swab into your schnoz, you may want to avoid testing by humans or robots Science23 Jun 2020 | 21
Meet the dog that's all byte and no bark: Boston Dynamics touts robo-pooch Spot with $75k-a-pop price tag Video What's that Lassie? You need a 400MB firmware update and a reboot? Science17 Jun 2020 | 19
Singapore releases the robot hounds to enforce social distancing in parks Smithers: If I really must go outside, can you arrange it so I encounter the smallest possible number of virus-laden humans? Science10 May 2020 | 63
Line-of-business folk will have bigger role in growing robotic process automation revolution Scary idea, but can work if IT bods are there to hold their hands Software20 Mar 2020 | 13
Crazy idea but hear us out... With robots taking people's jobs, can we rethink this whole working to survive thing? A nation of takeout deliverers Science11 Feb 2020 | 163
If the words 'new', 'AI', 'for', 'the', 'physical', 'world', 'accelerate' and 'Facebook' scare you, click this headline Open-source distributed system teaches bots to find their way without a map, just cam, GPS, compass AI + ML23 Jan 2020 | 16
You're drinking morning coffee in 2019. These eggheads are in 2119 landing drones on their arms like robo-falconers With the help of what looks like vibrating dinner plates Science27 Nov 2019 | 26
Dead or alive, you're camming with me, says RoboPup: Bomb squad hires Boston Dynamics Spot to snoop on suspects, packages Vid Who's a good cyber-boy? Now, please don't kill anyone Science25 Nov 2019 | 17
You wanted flying cars and colony worlds. Instead, IKEA furniture-building-ish AI robots Bettåma than nöthurihag AI + ML21 Nov 2019 | 47
The US Army recruits WALL-E Chris H as its next-generation bomb disposal robot Terminator it ain't, but should prove useful and a little lovable Science18 Nov 2019 | 29
Watch tiny swimming magnetic robots suck up uranium in a droplet of radioactive wastewater Video Don't get too excited, though – we need quintillions of these things Science31 Oct 2019 | 41
Sticks and stones may break your bones but robot taunts will hurt you – in games at least Shade-throwing bot bedevils human opponents in boffins' strategy simulation Science29 Oct 2019 | 18
Your kids will be glad a UK government-funded robot will be changing your nappy and not them Rise of the Machines That's the idea behind £34m investment in autonomous care for elderly research Bootnotes28 Oct 2019 | 54
What simultaneously sucks and doesn't? This new robot vacuum cleaner Roomba for improvement? 2,000 pascals' worth is the claim from vacuum-maker Eufy Bootnotes23 Oct 2019 | 40
Japanese hotel chain sorry that hackers may have watched guests through bedside robots Can we at least turn the thing around before we... y'know? Security22 Oct 2019 | 85
Tetraplegic patient can now move his four limbs with the help of a badass neuroprosthetic suit Also Brown University and Intel also want to develop an AI brain-machine interface too Science04 Oct 2019 | 33
Every dog has its day – and this one belongs to Boston Dynamic's four-legged good boy Spot A K9 to tide you over until hoverboards come out Science25 Sep 2019 | 48
World's largest heap of untreated nuclear waste needs more bots to cart around irradiated crap Chernobyl? That's cute Science20 Sep 2019 | 70