Nathan Seidle’s wife gave him this already locked safe as a gift with no combination. Weird present, but he loves a good challenge. So he built a safecracking robot.

Watch this safe-cracking robot open a safe in 15 minutes.

NASA has released gobs of archival footage to its Youtube channel for your viewing pleasure. Don't thank us, thank NASA.

There are many ways to kill a drone. But what's the cheapest and most effective way to do it? A cybersecurity consultancy is testing various ways to defend against rogue drones.

Sophisticated companion robots have arrived. But we need to be very careful about how we interact with them.

The city of the future calls for more connectivity. Porto company Veniam is leading that charge by incorporating a wifi mesh network to this old-world city. Produced for Mouser Electronics by the WIRED Brand Lab

Hexa isn’t just an extremely entertaining robot. Its maker hopes to turn it into a full-fledged robotics platform.

Introducing HardWIRED, a new video series about the robots that are poised to take over the world. In the first episode WIRED explores what qualifies as a robot in the first place.

Artist Justin Guariglia uses a high-tech printer to create art that documents Earth's melting glaciers.

Nothing in robotics is as unintentionally hilarious as watching a biped fall. But roboticists are making progress- like with this machine named Cassie.

This is Taurus, SRI’s tele-operated robot, which ventures where human beings dare not.

Blade Runner director Ridley Scott dissects the scene when replicant Rachel meets Blade Runner Deckard. The original Blade Runner is now available in 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray.

Brett, a robot at UC Berkeley, is learning to put a square peg in a square hole the same way that a child does. Slowly and with trial and error.

These tiny robots take a cue from ant colonies to cooperatively build. Some do the glue work, and some assemble scaffolding that could make for stronger 3D printing. Someday armies of microscopic bots might even roam our bodies to capture unwanted cells.

Go inside Syntouch, the laboratory developing a robotic finger that senses pressure, heat, and texture. This handy robot has huge implications for the world of prosthetics and product descriptions, and it may one day change the way we think about and describe our sense of touch.

Kim Keever squeezes paint into a 200 gallon fish tank to make his art. The resulting photographs are vibrant odes to physics.

Welcome to the world of human-robot interaction, in which people have to adapt to the machines as much as the machines have to adapt to us.

For WIRED's November cover about love in the time of robots the magazine turned to Elastic, the design firm behind the opening credits for Game of Thrones, True Detective, and Westworld.

Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly uses the power of Twitter to answer some common questions about astronauts. How fast is the international space station? Can you see the eclipse from space? Scott Kelly's book 'Endurance' is now available.

‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ star Andy Serkis is the world’s greatest motion capture performer. His abilities are so in-demand that much of the technology behind motion capture has evolved along with his performances. Andy breaks down some of the major moments of his career along with how the filmmaking tools have changed alongside it. 'War for the Planet of the Apes' is now available on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD #WarForthePlanet

The Guardian GT’s 7-foot-long arms replicate human motions with incredible smoothness and accuracy. Also, each one can lift 500 pounds.

The robotic snake has 16 windpipe-constricting actuators, but this serpent bot is more likely to save your life than suck it out of you.

Keanu Reeves gives Wired a tour of Arch Motorcycle, where he and co-founder Gard Hollinger design and build totally custom handmade bikes with the help of virtual reality.

Think of Tug as a self-driving car, only for the indoors. Oh, and it delivers drugs.

The only thing more impressive than these robots’ soccer skills is how they band together as a team.

At Silicon Valley startup Iron Ox, the plan for agriculture, or at least leafy greens, is to automate the entire growing process indoors with robots and artificial intelligence.

This is the story of how an adorable robot went from Lego prototype to family companion.

A new robot-avatar combo is helping deaf children learn to communicate during a crucial time in their development.

It seems like every time you turn around there's a new breach of personal information. Follow these steps to minimize the damage.

Hey robot futurist! We've got one word for you: Actuators. They're the motorized joints that make robots strong, agile, and precise and they're getting better all the time.

Why whirl a cheap plastic fidget spinner when you could twist with a premium toy made of tough titanium or milled from aerospace grade aluminum?

2017 was the year that robots really broke free from the factories and labs and started roaming among us.

Five-foot-tall, 400-pound robots are on a mission to take a bite out of crime. The path there, though, is fraught with ethical pitfalls.

This company wants its robot to take on the tedious and time consuming job of scanning inventory at stores. Please don't assault it while it is working.

The robot revolution we’re in the midst of is way more interesting and way less murder-y than science fiction. Call it the multiplicity.

Legendary wide receiver Jerry Rice uses the power of Twitter to answer some common questions about the game of football.

Dot Physics' Rhett Allain explains the science behind how drones fly.

Two and a half years after Chimp competed in the Darpa Robotics Challenge, it remains one of the weirdest humanoid robots on Earth.

Dot Physics' Rhett Allain breaks down the physical forces that affect how planes fly.

Also known as the spinning thing atop self-driving cars, lidar is the technology that could unlock autonomy for everybody.

At a company in Richmond, Calif., robotic painters are working alongside human workers, sanding and painting cabinets. Despite early fears from employees, the human workers have grown to embrace the "cobots" -- collaborative robots who are helping them get the job done.

Food scientists and startups are trying to make meat more ethically appealing by growing it -- cell by cell -- in a lab instead of on a farm. Even some vegans support so-called "clean" meat. But can lab grown meat overcome the dreaded "yuck factor?"

Step inside the Panoptic Studio, a dome at Carnegie Mellon University where researchers are capturing data on human gestures, which will be used to create more lifelike and responsive robots.

Robots are historically pretty bad at picking things up. But that's changing thanks to startups like Kindred, which is mixing advanced AI with remote controls to create robots that can pick and sort through objects at dizzying rates.

Like most robots, Kleo the Cat has a tough time moving around. But that could change soon. That's thanks to researchers at USC who are using lessons from biology to create more dexterous machines.

Dot Physics' Rhett Allain breaks down the physical forces that allow electric cars to drive.

Welcome to Six Degrees of Automation – a docu-series dedicated to analyzing the impact intelligent automation is having on various industries, produced in collaboration between IBM Services and Wired Brand Lab. In our inaugural episode, we explore how intelligent automation is transforming the banking industry. Follow Bill on his journey to receive a home loan, a seemingly simple process, but one that is being transformed by automation.

Robots, personal assistants, and other AI-powered devices are quickly becoming a staple in homes and offices around the country. In Part 2 of this series, WIRED Brand Lab will explore how AI and robotics are changing business models and augmenting our productivity as workers. Produced by WIRED Brand Lab for DXC Technology.

Researchers detail the evolution of the world’s strangest fish, and describe how it could be a potentially powerful tool for scientists to study ocean life.

Robots and AI are expected to operate more seamlessly within the human world. To achieve this, scientists have begun outfitting technology with the same sensors that human beings use. Those sensors, more commonly known as the five senses, are sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. In this series, WIRED Brand Lab explores the senses that are being developed for technology so that these objects can better operate within the human world and humans can better interact with the virtual world.