With four legs but no back or front, ALPHRED 2 can run, jump, and punch through boards in any direction

Consultancy firm Certified Artificial, which is offering to certify AI companies, has demonstrated its prowess by rating the expertise of Elon Musk and Henry Kissinger

New drone standard for remote ID submitted for approval

To take off from the water, this drone uses an explosion-powered water jet

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The Danish company is announcing a powerful new member of its collaborative robots family

Cerebras aims to speed deep learning at supercomputing centers

The OpenAI project demonstrated "emergent behavior" by the AI players, including surfing

Little swarm robots that can't do much on their own can use their random behavior to accomplish tasks like locomotion

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

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Lucas Joppa, founder of Microsoft's AI for Earth program, is taking an engineering approach to environmental issues

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

In their search for killer apps, robotics companies should look at the amazing evolution of computers

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

For the first time, NASA's Astrobee robot has demonstrated autonomous free flight in space

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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

Creepy robots and the strange phenomenon of the uncanny valley: definition, history, examples, and how to avoid it

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