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Boston Dynamics’ most boring robot is getting a sensible job unloading trucks

By James Vincent
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Hyundai imagines a world in which it has turned everything into a robot

By Andrew J. Hawkins
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Today I learned about the attempts to make goldfish mech suits

By Mitchell Clark
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Here’s a home robot that actually looks useful: a self-driving shelf

By James Vincent
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Merry Christmas: The Boston Dynamics dog has learned how to be Solid Snake

By Mitchell Clark
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Hyundai’s new four-wheeled robot is designed to carry anything you want it to

By James Vincent
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Sony shows off a robot grabber, 4K OLED panels for VR, and more

By Mitchell Clark
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A humanoid robot makes eerily lifelike facial expressions

By Emma Roth
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iRobot Roomba update uses AI to avoid knocking over your Christmas tree

By Jon Porter
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Alphabet is putting its prototype robots to work cleaning up around Google’s offices

By James Vincent
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Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot looks like a scary Jim Henson puppet in this Rolling Stones tribute

By James Vincent
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This Raspberry Pi add-on lets you control Lego robots

By Mitchell Clark

They’re putting guns on robot dogs now

It was only a matter of time

By James Vincent
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This bipedal robot uses propeller arms to slackline and skateboard

By James Vincent
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Amazon is hijacking our emotions to put robots in our homes

By Alice Newcome-Beill

Before Astro, these were the robots people invited home

Amazon says Astro is a home robot — how does it stack up to its predecessors?

By Mitchell Clark
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Honda is doubling down on rockets, robots, and flying cars

By Andrew J. Hawkins
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Amazon Astro is ‘terrible’ and will ‘throw itself down’ stairs, developers reportedly claim

By Mitchell Clark
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Say hello to Astro, Alexa on wheels

By Dan Seifert
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Here’s the deluge of announcements from Amazon’s fall devices event

Including a robot

By Jay Peters
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Gitamini is a cute, compact, cargo-carrying robot that will follow you around like a dog

By James Vincent
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Need to trap a Roomba? You don’t need anything more sophisticated than a rug

By James Vincent
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iRobot’s newest Roomba uses AI to avoid dog poop

By James Vincent
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The time a human-driven car ran over an autonomous robot

By Richard Lawler
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Don’t overthink it: Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot is a joke

A distraction and an empty promise

By James Vincent

Boston Dynamics shows how bipedal Atlas robot flips, vaults, and falls over in latest videos

An impressive behind-the-scenes look at Atlas’ programming

By James Vincent
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CyberDog is a new ominous-looking robot from Xiaomi

Really leaning into the Robocop vibe

By James Vincent
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Starship Technologies’ delivery robots are coming to more college campuses this fall

By Andrew J. Hawkins
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Robot arranges 100,000 dominoes into a Super Mario Bros. mural in one day

By Mitchell Clark

Could you beat this bipedal robot’s 5K run time?

It completed the distance in 53 minutes

By James Vincent
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Google parent Alphabet launches Intrinsic: a new company to build software for industrial robots

By James Vincent
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Robot collision at Ocado warehouse near London sparks fire, delaying customer orders

By Kim Lyons