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Like a bird, this drone uses touch to grip branches and rest

Like a bird, this drone uses touch to grip branche...

7 hours ago 14

Worms navigate narrow paths faster than wide ones. These findings could inform robot design

Worms navigate narrow paths faster than wide ones....

12 hours ago 14

Adorable waddling robot can pick up stuff and learn new tricks

Adorable waddling robot can pick up stuff and lear...

15 hours ago 17

Four-legged robot learns dog-like movements to leap through tight spaces

Four-legged robot learns dog-like movements to lea...

15 hours ago 15

A soft 3D-printed robotic hand that gently grips everything from eggs to a 1 kg water bottle

A soft 3D-printed robotic hand that gently grips e...

15 hours ago 14

Scientists build tiny robots without motors that can fly using sound waves alone

Scientists build tiny robots without motors that c...

17 hours ago 18

When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, people become wary – new brain study

When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, peopl...

19 hours ago 19

NASA Awards First Prize in Phase 2 of Agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge

NASA Awards First Prize in Phase 2 of Agency’s Lun...

3 days ago 28

Video Friday: Meet Microduck

Video Friday: Meet Microduck

3 days ago 33

Light-powered soft robots that can keep jumping forever

Light-powered soft robots that can keep jumping fo...

3 days ago 41

A humanoid robot's social expressiveness may backfire when it makes mistakes

A humanoid robot's social expressiveness may backf...

3 days ago 42

First 11 vs 11 humanoid soccer game played at RoboCup 2026

First 11 vs 11 humanoid soccer game played at Robo...

3 days ago 29

Wheel-legged robot dog dumps packages – and ads

Wheel-legged robot dog dumps packages – and ads

4 days ago 45

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Departs Agency to Continue Military Service

NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Departs Agency to Continu...

4 days ago 30

Six-legged robot learns to walk from a stick insect

Six-legged robot learns to walk from a stick insec...

4 days ago 44

AI searched 100 million possibilities and found a cheaper way to 3D-print a NASA rocket alloy

AI searched 100 million possibilities and found a ...

4 days ago 37

From cartwheels to backflips, motion-imitation framework teaches three robots dynamic movements

From cartwheels to backflips, motion-imitation fra...

4 days ago 32

Giant cyborg cockroaches could bring supervised care to people trapped beyond rescuers' reach

Giant cyborg cockroaches could bring supervised ca...

5 days ago 30

NASA Sets Spacewalk for Station Maintenance, Live Coverage Planned

NASA Sets Spacewalk for Station Maintenance, Live ...

5 days ago 41

ScaFi: A robot that grows like a fish, not a machine—from 2 feet to nearly 10

ScaFi: A robot that grows like a fish, not a machi...

5 days ago 38

Robotiq Releases ROS 2 Packages for Adaptive Grippers

Robotiq Releases ROS 2 Packages for Adaptive Gripp...

5 days ago 37

Sonic micro-robots burst into motion without batteries or motors

Sonic micro-robots burst into motion without batte...

5 days ago 34

How green is your robot? And other awkward questions

How green is your robot? And other awkward questio...

5 days ago 37

New Next-Gen Dish Adds Muscle to NASA’s Deep Space Network

New Next-Gen Dish Adds Muscle to NASA’s Deep Space...

6 days ago 28

NASA Invites Media to LunaRecycle Challenge Finale Event in Alabama

NASA Invites Media to LunaRecycle Challenge Finale...

6 days ago 31

Humanoid robot breaks 100-meter mark with 8.86-second sprint in Beijing

Humanoid robot breaks 100-meter mark with 8.86-sec...

6 days ago 34

Sub-$1,700 household robot promises to handle chores and more

Sub-$1,700 household robot promises to handle chor...

6 days ago 26

AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes

AI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connecti...

6 days ago 25

Claude will now watermark all content generated using its tools

Claude will now watermark all content generated us...

1 week ago 34

Unitree Claims New Humanoid Robot Outruns Usain Bolt

Unitree Claims New Humanoid Robot Outruns Usain Bo...

1 week ago 40

Humanoid 'Olympics' reveal why the US can't compete with China's robots

Humanoid 'Olympics' reveal why the US can't compet...

1 week ago 36

These tiny drones are powered by sound

These tiny drones are powered by sound

1 week ago 34

A hidden “on switch” in human DNA has finally been decoded

A hidden “on switch” in human DNA has finally been...

1 week ago 35

Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games

Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100...

1 week ago 39

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4982–4987: Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4982–4987: Back to Our Regula...

1 week ago 33

Video Friday: Do We Need Superhuman Humanoid Robots?

Video Friday: Do We Need Superhuman Humanoid Robot...

1 week ago 27

AI-powered terrain recognition helps cyborg cockroaches navigate faster

AI-powered terrain recognition helps cyborg cockro...

1 week ago 39

Have your say: Would you trust a humanoid robot with your household chores?

Have your say: Would you trust a humanoid robot wi...

1 week ago 37

New excavator interface lets rookies match veteran operators on day one

New excavator interface lets rookies match veteran...

1 week ago 34

#AAMAS2026 blue sky award winner: Foundation world models for agents in changing environments

#AAMAS2026 blue sky award winner: Foundation world...

1 week ago 33

SmallSat 2026

SmallSat 2026

1 week ago 33

Robots learn new skills from a single video—in just 29 seconds

Robots learn new skills from a single video—in jus...

1 week ago 32

MIT engineers design a better controller for operating construction diggers

MIT engineers design a better controller for opera...

1 week ago 36

Parse.ly Test

Parse.ly Test

1 week ago 32

NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost Mission

NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost...

1 week ago 36

Robotics roadmaps from around the world spotlight of the month: Japan

Robotics roadmaps from around the world spotlight ...

1 week ago 42

Behind the Lens: Meet NASA Johnson’s Photographers

Behind the Lens: Meet NASA Johnson’s Photographers...

1 week ago 35

Tiny robots powered by light can hunt down and collect bacteria

Tiny robots powered by light can hunt down and col...

1 week ago 29

Bee-inspired algorithm helps robot swarms reach consensus

Bee-inspired algorithm helps robot swarms reach co...

1 week ago 39

Virtual rewards train evading drones to outmaneuver pursuers and reach base in high-speed game of tag

Virtual rewards train evading drones to outmaneuve...

1 week ago 42