Robotics

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

Robot Rin Tin Tin can rescue you from that collapsed mine shaft

It might even hand you the fire extinguisher

Science18 Sep 2019 | 20

If Syria pioneered grain processing by watermill in 350BC, the UK in 2019 can do better... right?

Wrong: Biz committee bemoans lack of automation strategy

Science18 Sep 2019 | 46

Russian spacebot stranded outside the ISS as Soyuz fails to dock

Fleshbag crew spared from robotic companion for the moment by Kurs kerfuffle

Science26 Aug 2019 | 29

My god, it's full of tsars: A gun-toting Russian humanoid robot is on its way to the International Space Station

Video What could possibly go wrong?

Science23 Aug 2019 | 71

Can't dance? That's no excuse. Let a robot do it for you at this 'forced exoskeleton rave'

Where else but San Francisco?

Science26 Jul 2019 | 23

I see you're writing an app... Microsoft nudges AI Clippy-for-Code out the door, turns machine learning onto Word

Build IntelliCode kinda available, online text editor to suggest sentence rewrites

Devops06 May 2019 | 24

Ok Google, please ignore this free tax filing code so we can keep on screwing America

Updated TurboTax and H&R Block use robots.txt, metatags to hide in plain sight

Software26 Apr 2019 | 100

Boffins bring home the bacon as AI-powered robo-medic performs heart surgery on pigs

'The best way to do this is a partnership between the robot and a surgeon'

AI + ML25 Apr 2019 | 10

Watch Toyota's huge basketball robot shoot a hoop, and read up on how you should think about AI and, erm, Jesus

Roundup Also massive policy body cam org Axon is pursuing facial recog after all

AI + ML14 Apr 2019 | 66

'It's like painting with atoms'... Watch how boffins form armies of simple micron-sized bots from a silicon wafer

Video And they may be injected into your body one day

Science10 Mar 2019 | 54

We sent a Reg vulture to RSA to learn about the future of AI and security. And it's no use. It's bots all the way down

RSA We'd call this blue-sky thinking but the sky is thick with swarms of drones

AI + ML06 Mar 2019 | 19

OK, smarty pants AI. You can beat us humans at video games. But how about real-world puzzles like Jenga? Oh, oh no

Vid Yes, let's distract killer neural networks with boredom-killing toys

AI + ML31 Jan 2019 | 14

Watch an AI robot program itself to, er, pick things up and push them around

Vid Why can't robots just learn to do things without being told?

AI + ML18 Jan 2019 | 8

World's first robot hotel massacres half of its robot staff

Rise of the Machines™ 'You're fired'

AI + ML15 Jan 2019 | 77

Q. How exactly do you test car seats? A. With this sweaty 'robutt' that twerks for days and days

Vid Watch this game of moist mechanical musical chairs

Science11 Jan 2019 | 24

It's 2019, the year Blade Runner takes place: I can has flying cars?

Feature Yesterday's sci-fi has become today's crappy kit, apart from space colonies and AI

Science01 Jan 2019 | 202

Ding dong merrily on high. In Berkeley, the bots are singeing: Self-driving college cooler droid goes up in flames

Kiwibot snack shuttle snuffed by thermal runaway

Science17 Dec 2018 | 57

Postmates plans rollout of autonomous delivery robots in US

Wheeled robo-containers called Serve headed first to LA

On-Prem13 Dec 2018 | 27

Here's 2018 in a nutshell for you... Russian super robot turns out to be man in robot suit

Video State TV can't decide whether it was duped or not

Bootnotes12 Dec 2018 | 90

Forget ripping off brains for AI. Butterflies and worms could lead us to self-repairing intelligent robots, says prof

'It’s clear that intelligent behavior doesn’t always require a brain'

AI + ML07 Dec 2018 | 18

Alphabet gives bipedal robots the Schaft 'cos no one wants to buy its creepy machine maker

Even Softbank balked at these tethered terrors

Bootnotes16 Nov 2018 | 22

Transformers: Robots... at least it tries: Watch boffins' Optimus Dime rearrange on the fly

Its creators see this shape-shifter droid as more like Big Hero 6 than cheesy Autobots

Science02 Nov 2018 | 11

How do some of the best AI algorithms perform on real robots? Not well, it turns out

Machine learning finds reality a whole different ball game

AI + ML25 Sep 2018 | 17

It's a mug's game: Watch AI robot grab a cuppa it hasn't seen before

Video Machine-learning software taught how to pick up things it hasn't seen before

AI + ML11 Sep 2018 | 41

Kids are more likely than adults to submit to peer pressure from robots

Hey...kids...yes order 10 of those and give me your parent's credit card details

Science16 Aug 2018 | 38

Uptight robots that suddenly beg to stay alive are less likely to be switched off by humans

Poll Chatty, friendly bots more likely to be unplugged – study

AI + ML03 Aug 2018 | 63

Basic bigot bait: Build big black broad bots – non-white, female 'droids get all the abuse

What the fsck is wrong with people... judging from this study

Science03 Aug 2018 | 116

Relax, Amazon workers – OpenAI-trained robo hand isn't much use (well, not right now)

Vid Turns out replacing humans isn't that easy after all

AI + ML30 Jul 2018 | 16

Boffins mix AI and chemicals to create super-fast lab assistant

Faster than human boffins, and hopefully more reliable

AI + ML19 Jul 2018 | 15

CIMON says: Say hello to your new AI pal-bot, space station 'nauts

Giant grinning cartoon-like Tamagotchi thing built by Airbus, IBM blasts up into orbit

AI + ML29 Jun 2018 | 59

Oracle, for one, says we'll welcome our new robot overlords: '90%' of you will obey an AI bot

You will obey! You will obey! You will obey! You will obey!

AI + ML29 Jun 2018 | 31

Get a grip, literally: Clumsy robots can't nab humans' jobs just yet

Amazon challenge winners roll out neural net for droids that need to grab stationary stuff

AI + ML26 Jun 2018 | 27

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In the lab: Robotic AI-powered exoskeletons to help disabled people move freely without implants

Soft-shell robot uses snailfish features to sail though Mariana Trench stress test

Megabucks in funding, 28 years of research, and Boston Dynamics is to be 'sold to Hyundai' for 1/40th of an Arm

Study: While text-generating AI can write like humans, it lacks common sense

First they came for chess, then Go... and now, oh for crying out loud, AI systems can beat us at curling

What the world needs now is socially-distant robots, says Japan

Autonomous robots that can be injected? Not as far off as it sounds, say boffins, thanks to new ion-powered silicon legs

Eye see you're having surgery: Origami inspires tiny, super-accurate robot surgeon

You've think you've heard it all about automation in technology? Get a load of this robot that plugs in cables

NASA mulls going all steam-punk with a fleet of jumping robots to explore Saturn and Jupiter's mysterious moons

Korean boffins build COVID-bot to shove a swab right up your hooter

Meet the dog that's all byte and no bark: Boston Dynamics touts robo-pooch Spot with $75k-a-pop price tag

Singapore releases the robot hounds to enforce social distancing in parks

Line-of-business folk will have bigger role in growing robotic process automation revolution

Crazy idea but hear us out... With robots taking people's jobs, can we rethink this whole working to survive thing?

If the words 'new', 'AI', 'for', 'the', 'physical', 'world', 'accelerate' and 'Facebook' scare you, click this headline

You're drinking morning coffee in 2019. These eggheads are in 2119 landing drones on their arms like robo-falconers

Dead or alive, you're camming with me, says RoboPup: Bomb squad hires Boston Dynamics Spot to snoop on suspects, packages

You wanted flying cars and colony worlds. Instead, IKEA furniture-building-ish AI robots

The US Army recruits WALL-E Chris H as its next-generation bomb disposal robot

Watch tiny swimming magnetic robots suck up uranium in a droplet of radioactive wastewater

Sticks and stones may break your bones but robot taunts will hurt you – in games at least

Your kids will be glad a UK government-funded robot will be changing your nappy and not them

What simultaneously sucks and doesn't? This new robot vacuum cleaner

Japanese hotel chain sorry that hackers may have watched guests through bedside robots

Tetraplegic patient can now move his four limbs with the help of a badass neuroprosthetic suit

Every dog has its day – and this one belongs to Boston Dynamic's four-legged good boy Spot

World's largest heap of untreated nuclear waste needs more bots to cart around irradiated crap

Robot Rin Tin Tin can rescue you from that collapsed mine shaft

If Syria pioneered grain processing by watermill in 350BC, the UK in 2019 can do better... right?

Russian spacebot stranded outside the ISS as Soyuz fails to dock

My god, it's full of tsars: A gun-toting Russian humanoid robot is on its way to the International Space Station

Can't dance? That's no excuse. Let a robot do it for you at this 'forced exoskeleton rave'

I see you're writing an app... Microsoft nudges AI Clippy-for-Code out the door, turns machine learning onto Word

Ok Google, please ignore this free tax filing code so we can keep on screwing America

Boffins bring home the bacon as AI-powered robo-medic performs heart surgery on pigs

Watch Toyota's huge basketball robot shoot a hoop, and read up on how you should think about AI and, erm, Jesus

'It's like painting with atoms'... Watch how boffins form armies of simple micron-sized bots from a silicon wafer

We sent a Reg vulture to RSA to learn about the future of AI and security. And it's no use. It's bots all the way down

OK, smarty pants AI. You can beat us humans at video games. But how about real-world puzzles like Jenga? Oh, oh no

Watch an AI robot program itself to, er, pick things up and push them around

World's first robot hotel massacres half of its robot staff

Q. How exactly do you test car seats? A. With this sweaty 'robutt' that twerks for days and days

It's 2019, the year Blade Runner takes place: I can has flying cars?

Ding dong merrily on high. In Berkeley, the bots are singeing: Self-driving college cooler droid goes up in flames

Postmates plans rollout of autonomous delivery robots in US

Here's 2018 in a nutshell for you... Russian super robot turns out to be man in robot suit

Forget ripping off brains for AI. Butterflies and worms could lead us to self-repairing intelligent robots, says prof

Alphabet gives bipedal robots the Schaft 'cos no one wants to buy its creepy machine maker

Transformers: Robots... at least it tries: Watch boffins' Optimus Dime rearrange on the fly

How do some of the best AI algorithms perform on real robots? Not well, it turns out

It's a mug's game: Watch AI robot grab a cuppa it hasn't seen before

Kids are more likely than adults to submit to peer pressure from robots

Uptight robots that suddenly beg to stay alive are less likely to be switched off by humans

Basic bigot bait: Build big black broad bots – non-white, female 'droids get all the abuse

Relax, Amazon workers – OpenAI-trained robo hand isn't much use (well, not right now)

Boffins mix AI and chemicals to create super-fast lab assistant

CIMON says: Say hello to your new AI pal-bot, space station 'nauts

Oracle, for one, says we'll welcome our new robot overlords: '90%' of you will obey an AI bot

Get a grip, literally: Clumsy robots can't nab humans' jobs just yet

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