Robotics

Red Rabbit Robotics takes human form to sell work as a service

Take this job and automate it

Offbeat15 Dec 2024 | 21

You're so bad at recycling, this biz built an AI to handle it for you

Maybe start getting better at sorting your trash before these ML garbage bots gain sentience?

Bootnotes08 Dec 2024 | 42

Robot runs marathon in South Korea, apparently the first time this has happened

Finishing in 4:19:52 makes it a SlowBot - although it did finish without a battery top-up

Science19 Nov 2024 | 24

Letting chatbots run robots ends as badly as you'd expect

LLM-controlled droids easily jailbroken to perform mayhem, researchers warn

AI + ML16 Nov 2024 | 44

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 | 235

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 | 55

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 | 7

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