The creators of Kiki believe they can build an emotionally engaging social home robot that is also "completely useless"

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Here's everything we know about Boston Dynamics' first commercial robot

Mid-air docking of flying batteries can massively extend the flight time of a drone

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Job postings from a NASA contractor suggest that a new humanoid robot is under development

Rigid IT departments and job-hopping data scientists are just two of the challenges that make implementing machine learning harder than you might think

Skydio crams all its autonomous magic into a sleek consumer drone that costs under $1k

John Deere, the nearly 200-year-old tractor manufacturer, now considers itself a software company

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Researchers in Brazil are developing a drone that scouts for evidence—and want to use its footage to reconstruct crime scenes

A Facebook executive challenges the Arm processor community to create tech building blocks for augmented reality glasses

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The improvements include nimbler feet, better perception, and fully custom electronics

A startup led by robotics veterans is announcing a pre-seed funding round with participation from Amazon's Alexa Fund and iRobot Ventures

Using reinforcement learning and randomized simulations, researchers taught this robot how to solve a Rubik's cube one-handed

This cozy little box provides a remote home for Skydio's fully autonomous obstacle-avoiding drone

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The topography and bathymetry payload for UAV

Experts representing a diversity of views on autonomous weapons systems collaborate on a realistic policy roadmap

A military exercise in Australia demonstrates how small drones can airdrop critical medical supplies to soldiers in combat

Can an online game that combines human brainpower with AI solve intractable problems?

Pepe helps keep Indian children healthy by reminding them to wash up

Self-driving cars and medical robots need an infant’s understanding of physics to succeed

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Long before NLP became a hot field in AI, people devised rules and machines to manipulate language

Blue Frog Robotics CEO Rodolphe Hasselvander on the future of Buddy

A new two-way teleoperation system sends your motions to the robot and the robot's motions to you

New York City study shows that drones could deliver life-saving medical supplies several minutes before an ambulance arrives

Leaders in Silicon Valley—both the real one and the fictional one on HBO—started this week by debating the responsibilities of tech companies

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The machine would use an “alphabet of human thoughts” and rules to combine them

As always, our coverage will feature the coolest, weirdest, and most interesting things that we find at this massive robotics conference

Microsoft's AI could enable its popular chatbot to comment on news, but critics see a tool for spreading disinformation

Michael Kratsios, the fourth U.S. Chief Technology Officer, explains administration policies at the Fall Conference of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

The unique body and locomotion strategies of echinoderms inspired this robot that emulates a juvenile sea urchin

Spacecraft propulsion systems are ready for China’s daring touchdown attempt on the red planet

Janelle Shane talks about the absurdity, perils, and limits of AI

Shannon's said: “OCRO HLI RGWR NMIELWIS”

This robot dog can scale ladders that a real dog would struggle with

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In 1966, the Eliza program couldn’t say much—but it was enough

Cassie may not have any arms to work with, but that doesn’t keep it from juggling a ball on its head

The fastest, safest, and most exciting way to launch a quadrotor may be ballistically

Bosch SoundSee combines deep learning with mobile microphone arrays to identify problems on the ISS before they happen

Experts discuss technological inequality and the “reskilling” problem at an MIT conference

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The bot learned language from people on Twitter—but it also learned values

The SnotBot project uses drones, data, and deep learning to tell us about the health of whales and the oceans

A new contest aims to help first responders leverage computer vision algorithms and drone imagery during a search