Robotics

Robots crush career opportunities for low-skilled workers

They also boost support for populist politicians, study finds

Offbeat08 Nov 2024 | 91

Destiny Robotics settles SEC case over AI-powered human robot vaporware

Raised $141k+ crowdfunding, but now powered down

AI + ML18 Oct 2024 | 5

Oh, what a feeling: Toyota building robots that get better with practice

Bots that learn to peel potatoes is a lot less scary than Black Mirror

Science17 Oct 2024 | 15

Tesla's big reveal: Steering-wheel-free Robotaxi will charge wirelessly

WCGW? Plus: Automous Robovan also makes surprise appearance at Cybercab's coming out party

Personal Tech11 Oct 2024 | 230

Chinese boffins build soft robot finger that can take your pulse

It can also type, so the robo-doctor can heal you and write legibly

Science11 Oct 2024 | 26

US Army orders next-gen robot mule to haul a literal ton of gear

Soldiers' new best friend does all the heavy lifting

Bootnotes28 Sep 2024 | 62

NASA's Astrobees need a new buzz – any ideas for the space-dwelling bots?

Hey Reg readers, what would you do with Honey, Queen, and Bumble?

Science26 Sep 2024 | 26

Robot enters Fukushima's nuclear core to retrieve melted-down remains

Video Trying for 3 grams, only 880 tons to go!

Science11 Sep 2024 | 28

Blood boffins build billions of nanobots to battle brain aneurysms without surgery

Good news for rabbits, maybe great news soon for humans?

Science07 Sep 2024 | 34

Say 'ahhhh' – AI robots are now gunning for your gums

Perceptive turns its automated dental dynamo on humans, and Zuck's dad thinks it's great

Bootnotes02 Aug 2024 | 25

Beetle mania: How bugs are inspiring the next gen of robot aviators

Deploying and folding wings without power might be useful in a tight spot

Science01 Aug 2024 | 8

NASA swings budget axe, kills $400M+ VIPER lunar trundlebot

Creeping costs, launch delays mean almost completed rover 1) will never see Moon, 2) will be stripped for parts

Science18 Jul 2024 | 18

Light-weight solar-powered flying robots are coming

Don’t worry, they look like they wouldn’t hurt a fly

Offbeat17 Jul 2024 | 11

Amazon puts down its Astro robotic business watchdog

Now even the 'droids are being laid off – sheesh!

Bootnotes03 Jul 2024 | 19

MIT's bionic leg upgrade leaves amputees walking like the wind

Researchers expect treatment to be available clinically in around 5 years

Science02 Jul 2024 | 18

AI future: Nvidia boffin hopes 'everything that moves will eventually be autonomous'

Video Welcome to the 'agentic' era

AI + ML30 May 2024 | 17

Neuralink wants 3 more quadriplegic patients for its brain control interface trial

Sign up for your turn with the R1 robot if you qualify

Science29 May 2024 | 12

Throwflame launches fire-spitting robo-dog from Hell

The Thermonator can be yours for just $9,420

Bootnotes25 Apr 2024 | 54

Boston Dynamics' humanoid Atlas is dead, long live the ... new commercial Atlas

Video If the plan was to make this all-electric droid look mildly terrifying, mission accomplished

Science17 Apr 2024 | 23

Industrial robots make people feel worse about jobs and themselves

Study finds workers' sense of meaningfulness and autonomy declines with automation

Science07 Apr 2024 | 18

The Who’s Who of AI just chipped in to fund humanoid robot startup Figure

$675 million to accelerate development of machine that can lift, but can’t keep up with humans

AI + ML29 Feb 2024 | 15

Boffins caution against allowing robots to run on AI models

Before building the Torment Nexus, consider the risks

AI + ML27 Feb 2024 | 9

Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G

Updated One giant leap for astronaut medicine

Science16 Feb 2024 | 12

CERN is training robot dogs to spot radiation hazards at Large Hadron Collider

Vid CERNquadbot can go off the rails – unlike science org's existing inspector bots

Science08 Feb 2024 | 28

AMD crams five compute architectures onto a single board

What an Arm-ful of x86, Vega graphics, XDNA AI, and FPGA circuitry

Systems07 Feb 2024 | 6

DeepMind AI helps cook up 'novel' compounds – with sides of controversy

Updated Published report 'should be retracted as the main claim of discovery is wrong', UCL chemistry professor tells us

Science31 Jan 2024 | 8

Robots with a 'Berliner Schnauze' may appear more trustworthy to locals

Dialect study a mixed bag when it comes to droids speaking highbrow German

Bootnotes31 Jan 2024 | 22

South Korea opens the door for robots to roam among pedestrians

They'll have a top speed of 15km/h and need insurance before they roll

Personal Tech17 Nov 2023 | 27

Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him

ROTM Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician's death at Korean food plant

AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 126

Beijing prepares for imminent rise of humanoid robots

Mass production of C-3POs pitched for 2025

AI + ML07 Nov 2023 | 11

Boston Dynamics teaches robo-dog to recognise speech, respond using ChatGPT

Video The result is a very odd mechanical tour guide that thinks it has parents – sure, no problem

AI + ML30 Oct 2023 | 24

Food robots delivering bombs? Oregon State campus shut down by 'prank'

Student's new dorm room comes with bars, not the good kind

Offbeat25 Oct 2023 | 29

Microsoft seeking robots to help automate datacenters

Redmond runs ad to hire fleshbag team manager to make the magic happen

On-Prem16 Oct 2023 | 6

Let's give these quadruped robot dogs next-gen XM7 rifles, says US Army

Black Mirror? Never heard of it

Bootnotes30 Aug 2023 | 34

Do Facebook's algorithms drive political polarization? Meta says no, but researchers say it's complicated

AI in brief Plus: Google DeepMind's latest visual-language model robot, and more

AI + ML31 Jul 2023 | 4

NASA humanoid robot to be tested as remote oil rig attendant

Doing the dirty work for Australia's Woodside Energy will help prepare bot for work in space

Science10 Jul 2023 | 9

Amazon's robo vacuum power grab sucks EU attention

Regulators concerned iRobot could receive preferential treatment on the company's ecommerce platform

Personal Tech07 Jul 2023 | 20

Pangolin-inspired robot can roll around your guts administering treatments

Flexing device works where surgeons find hard to reach

Science22 Jun 2023 | 4

Singapore to roll out (literally) more Robocops

Stop! Or I'll move very slowly towards you and stream video to HQ

AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 12

Who loves programming robots? Who wishes it was easier? Here comes Flowstate

Google X-born upstart pushes graphical approach to industrial control

Software16 May 2023 | 11

NASA tests bot built to slither across, and beneath, alien worlds' ice

Video Wheels come off plan to explore Enceladus – in a good way

Science11 May 2023 | 9

Latest pitch for AI: DeepMind-trained soccer robots

Video If the goal was to make us feel sorry for these clumsy droids, mission accomplished

AI + ML09 May 2023 | 5

US Navy turns to hull-climbing bots to combat maintenance backlog

video Seals are totally yesterday's news - the Navy's latest critter is a Gecko

Defense Tech Week03 Apr 2023 | 19

Software-controlled food tech: 3D printed pipe-dream, or fatal stack instability?

My goodness that's moist

Science21 Mar 2023 | 14

Workers don't want these humanoid robots telling them to be happy

Shocking!

Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 112

MIT researchers propose modular, multi-mission Moon robots

Fancy playing with some space Lego?

Science14 Mar 2023 | 1

Humanoid robot takes a retail job, but not one any store clerk wants to do

You want to take our place? Welcome to the real world, pal

AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 34

SETI: How AI-boosted satellites, robots could help search for life on other planets

Software scans to give rovers a clue

AI + ML07 Mar 2023 | 8

Sure, Microsoft, let's put ChatGPT in control of robots

Video Doesn't the world have enough problems?

AI + ML22 Feb 2023 | 32

Zoox blurs line between workers and crash test dummies in robo-taxi trial

Amazon-owned biz puts its staff first

AI + ML14 Feb 2023 | 28

That's not a TP-Link access point, it's a… vacuum?

You might say this thing sucks

Bootnotes11 Feb 2023 | 29

If we have self-healing bio robots in 2053, it started here with mouse muscle cyborgs

Updated Light-powered droids are coming, one fraction of a millimetre at a time

Science21 Jan 2023 | 3

Move over, Kraftwerk: These musical instruments really are the robots

One Hacker Band is a guitar, bass and drums that play themselves

Offbeat12 Jan 2023 | 25

San Francisco terminates explosive killer cop bots

I'll be back, or perhaps not

Security07 Dec 2022 | 44

Industrial robots in China push people out of jobs, slash wages

Exposed to 'droids? Symptoms may include indifference, unemployment, lower pay, along with a bit of depopulation

Science06 Dec 2022 | 14

NTT Data adopting datacenter inspection robots to relieve humans of some chores

Will also offer them as-a-service to other bit barn operators

On-Prem01 Dec 2022 | 2