Robotics news, features and articles

A transformer designed to do grunt work for the oil industry and military is coming, and it's… admittedly kind of fun to look at.

Musk bot botches battery build, fumbles fuzzy fiberglass.

Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk just paid a rare compliment to his own species, calling humans "underrated" on Twitter last week.

These Marsbees would flap their way around the Red Planet, mapping the terrain and collecting air samples.

This robot goes to MIT and just set a world Rubik's Cube speed record. If robots had grandparents, this one's would be very proud.

Being a fry cook isn't as easy as it looks, as a burger-flipping robot named "Flippy" recently discovered.

Boston Dynamic's new robot dog can fight off a human as it opens a door.

The little, swiveling robots will look at a new portion of the sky for the invisible force called dark energy that may be causing the accelerating expansion of the universe.

Cockroaches take a head-on approach to obstacles.

A metallic robot hand with "Terminator"-like power sounds good for the movies. But what about a real-life future where that android is now cradling your baby or just shaking your hand?