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wearbles Wearable robotic exoskeleton that transforms into wheeled scooter David Pescovitz
its alive An eight-foot-long handwriting robot Clive Thompson
biomimicry Flying microchip with wings to monitor air pollution and airborne diseases David Pescovitz
singapore Singapore deploys autonomous robots to catch smokers and other "undesirable social behaviors" Mark Frauenfelder
robo The MLB is testing out Robot Umpires to optimize baseball. Thom Dunn
microrobots The tiny robeetle earned Guinness Record as world's smallest crawling robot David Pescovitz
biomechanics Watch these squirrels do parkour… for science! David Pescovitz
parkour Watch these humanoid robots do parkour (and sometimes fail gloriously!) David Pescovitz
automation "If you wanna see the inside of it I'll show to you." Worker interviewed about office robot (1979) Popkin
wombat Watch a wombat-sized research robot burrow into marsupial holes Thom Dunn
george schall "Made In Korea" offers a cool new take on transracial adoption and AI Thom Dunn
robots in rowboats "Robots in Rowboats" is a delightfully whimsical coffee table book Thom Dunn
hair Robot learns to brush tangly hair without inflicting pain David Pescovitz
weeds Robot can kill 20 times as many weeds as a human farmer Rob Beschizza
oops Police break down door to nab home intruder that turned out to be a robot David Pescovitz
sandwiches Watch a robot make a sandwich David Pescovitz
robotics Boston Dynamics' new robot for moving boxes looks like a mechatronic scorpion David Pescovitz
sarah connor Sarah "O'" Connor tells the Financial Times why she was wrong about robots. Thom Dunn
spies This is Catfish Charlie, the CIA's robot spy fish David Pescovitz
robotics Artists outfitted robot dog Spot with a paintball gun in commentary on futuristic killer robots, just as NYDP deploys the same robot David Pescovitz