Robotics
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Robotic pigeon reveals how birds fly without a vertical tail fin
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Chimps trade gestures at a similar speed to humans
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Watch a robot peel vegetables with human-like dexterity
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Robot dog can stifle weeds by blasting them with a blowtorch
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Smiling robot face is made from living human skin cells
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Watch a Möbius strip robot move and climb when hit by light
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Ball-balancing robot could assist wheelchair users
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AI-driven race cars test limits of autonomous driverless technology
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Watch swarms of cyborg cockroaches avoid obstacles
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Watch agile mini humanoid robots showing off their football skills
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This robot predicts when you're going to smile – and smiles back
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This robot predicts when you're going to smile – and smiles back
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This robot makes better paper aeroplanes than humans
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Flying drone can roll on the ground to save energy over long distances
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Watch an AI-powered robot dog crawl around an obstacle course
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This robot dog has learned to open doors with its leg
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Watch a robot learn to open almost any type of door
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Watch a robot with living muscles walk through water
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Robot dinosaur tests theory about the evolution of feathers
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Meet FiloBot: the self-building, vine-like climbing robot
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Humanoid robot acts out prompts like it’s playing charades
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This robot can 'feel' pain
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Flexible spine gives mouse-inspired robot greater speed and agility
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3D-printed robotic hand has working tendons and muscles
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Robot chemist can make oxygen from martian materials
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Fractal fingers could let robots securely grasp any shape
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Frog-like robot uses tiny explosions to hop around
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Drone mother ship can release mini-drone swarms for use in search and rescue
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Animal-inspired robot transforms to roll, crawl, walk and fly across terrain
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Watch living invertebrates be used as grippers to help robots manipulate objects underwater
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Smart glove enhances your sense of touch in virtual reality
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Mechanical backpack boosts the sensation of jumping in virtual reality
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Watch a weird robot wiggle and flap like a seal moving on land
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Watch a weird robot wiggle and flap like a seal moving on land
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This collision-resistant drone can land on anything
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Robot bugs continue flying even after suffering wing damage
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Watch Google’s AI robot autonomously complete an array of physical tasks
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Watch a robot run effortlessly across sand
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Watch magnetic robot melt from solid to liquid to navigate confined spaces
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Sticky drone captures environmental DNA samples from tree canopies
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Watch this golf robot navigate to a ball by itself and sink a putt
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Self-healing robot recovers from being stabbed then walks off
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Drone used to map radioactive vault at former US weapons site
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Pac Man “surfer bot” moves across water, avoiding objects without a motor
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Bio-inspired glider floats for long distances and collects data without leaving polluting e-waste
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Unmanned Black Hawk military helicopter flies 134 km test mission
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AI trains cheap robot dog to coordinate multiple limbs
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Flying robotic falcon scares away flocks of birds
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Watch a two-legged sprinting robot set a world record over 100 metres
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Robotic pill that delivers drugs to gut could end insulin injections
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One day a drone swarm could 3D print buildings on the fly
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Ferrofluid robot can split into tiny droplets and reform into a blob
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Tiny 'gearbot' crawls like a caterpillar and jumps almost 40 times own height
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Watch DeepMind's digital humanoids learn to play soccer
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Soft robot could run faster than a cheetah if it was bigger
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Robot that can untie cables but can't pick them up off the floor
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These artificial muscles can lift up to 1000 times their own weight
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Robot made of sticky tape and metal powder could crawl on your organs
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Octopus-inspired glove grasps smooth objects underwater
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ESA's lunar rovers complete simulated moon surface trials on Mount Etna
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Paralysed man feeds himself dessert using his mind and smart robotic hands
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AI-powered robot learns to mould clay into letters that it has never seen before
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The robot that can do laundry by itself to help test washing machines
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Pasta-shaped robot navigates mazes and rough terrain
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Robotic drones with suction pads can fly, swim or hitch a ride to get around
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Drone swarm avoids crashing in dense forest using new algorithm
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Bendy robot arms made cheaper, lighter and more efficient thanks to electrostatic tech
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Robotic fingertip has human-like sense of touch
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Robot learns to open doors by splitting the task into three easy steps
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The magnetic slime robot that could retrieve accidentally swallowed objects
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Foot tickling machine could help beat stress by inducing uncontrolled laughter
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Finally, a robot that can peel a banana without smushing it to bits
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Ostrich-inspired 'BirdBot' has robotic legs more efficient than more complex devices
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Evolving robots: These machines can reproduce, learn and evolve all by themselves
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Meet RoboKrill, the one-legged robot that mimics the way krill swim
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Tiny robot powered by electric field flies better than nature
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Meet Rollin' Justin, the humanoid robot who could be a future Mars explorer
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Watch a highly dexterous robotic hand use scissors and tweezers
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AI table tennis robot learned to play in just 90 minutes
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Flying robot can also ride a skateboard and balance on a rope
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4D-printed robot self-assembles into a tube and rolls up hills
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Watch a one-legged robot hop about as researchers try to knock it over
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This robotic extra thumb can be controlled by moving your toes
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Robot squid that move to a rhythm can match the power efficiency of a real cephalopod
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Robot that looks like a bin bag can understand what a hug is
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Robot guide dog could help people who are blind navigate
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A submersible soft robot survived the pressure in the Mariana trench
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Robots can now give full-body personalised massages at home
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This robot can tell when sewers need repairing by scratching the walls
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Robotic bee pollinates flowers
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Fast swimming fish robot could perform underwater surveillance
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Soft finger-like robots sweating
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A robot equipped with real pigeon feathers flies like a living bird
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Cockroach robot won't break after being repeatedly stamped on
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Weird new type of magnetic liquid could be used to control soft robots
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This robot crawls over your body and scans your skin with a microscope
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Watch this robotic fruit fly swoop, dive and perform impressive flips
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Mean robots make us focus better
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This mind-controlled robotic arm lets you do two things at once
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Badminton's hottest new talent is a robot
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Robots build IKEA furniture
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The robot that talks to bees
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Robotic fish controlled by Nintendo
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DIY robot
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The smart humanoid robot that will help in grocery warehouses
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Letting robots kill without human supervision could save lives
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Transformer robot can roll, sail or glide
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Robots can hitch-hike on sharks thanks to ultrastrong sucker
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Robot suit helps children with cerebral palsy to walk better
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Jelly robot can heal itself
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Robots learn to give humans personal space
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Robot explores submerged Fukushima reactor
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Tiny robot could swim through your blood
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Tube robot is growing places
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Machine makes "1D robots" out of wire
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This robot will iron your clothes for you
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When will robots take over?
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Robot rides turtle and tells it where to go
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Volleyball robot
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Robot's concave eyes look like they're following you
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Robot that shows pain could teach doctors
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Robot controlled by brain signals
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Bat-inspired robot swoops and dives like the real thing
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Wearable robots make walking easier
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Robotic exoskeleton lends a hand
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Surgical robot ready for cataract surgery
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Wearable pet robots
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Ghost Minitaur: the bouncy robot that can go anywhere
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Chimp vs robot vs toddler
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Octobot: the first entirely autonomous soft robot
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SwagBot: the first robot cowboy
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Should we feel empathy for robots?
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Robotic surgeon stitches up pig intestinal tissue
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Super-stretchy robot skin changes brightness as it bends
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Chameleon robot changes colour to blend in
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Four-wheeled robot drives up walls
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Painting robot follows your eyes to create art
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3D-printed robot jumps six times its height
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Cockroach robot uses curves to get through gap
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Origami robot swims, walks and dissolves
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Cheetah robot leaps over hurdles
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Robotic arm moves by the power of thought
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Robot cleaner tidies up office buildings
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Super-strong robots pull over 100 times their weight
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Robots map radiation in Fukushima nuclear plant
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Humanoid robot has a sense of self
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Robot firefighter puts out its first blaze
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Robot jazz band freestyles with a human
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Robot reveals rich upside down world under ice
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Robot scribe copies your handwriting
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Four-finned robot swims like a cuttlefish
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Soccer-playing robots train for championships
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Robot artist draws giant sketch on the beach
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Giant robotic insect takes its first steps
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Mind control makes robot arm move objects
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Robot arms recreate feeling of alien presence
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Ethical robots save humans
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Rubbery robot walks through flames and snow
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Swarm of hundreds of robots forms shapes on its own
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Self-folding origami robot walks on its own
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Bendy Lego-like bricks could build flexible robots
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Ice-diving robot could hunt for life beyond Earth
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Asimo robot runs, hops and uses sign language
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First family robot designed as home companion
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Living robots made from frog cells can replicate themselves in a dish
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