Emerging Tech
The End Is Nigh: Robots and Drones Are Working Together
The robot uprising seems to be closer every day.
Digital Government
DARPA Robotics Challenge: What We Learned
The cutting-edge agency takes a look back on one of its biggest challenges.
Artificial Intelligence
Tech Experts Predict What 2025 Will Look Like
Nearly everyone surveyed was hopeful about the life-changing prospects of the Internet of Things.
Digital Government
This Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Robot Arm Lets You Actually Feel What it Touches
The robotic arm is connected by wires that link up to the wearer’s motor cortex and sensory cortex.
Emerging Tech
Video: NASA Designed a Hedgehog Robot to Explore Comets and Asteroids
This adorable robot uses its wheels in a different way.
Emerging Tech
Video: What it's Like to Eat at a Restaurant Entirely Run by Computers
Fast-food is made even faster.
Digital Government
What Keeps Pentagon’s Top Robotics Expert Up at Night?
Hint: It's not killer robots.
Modernization
Video: Meet Buddy, the Robot that Will Help Protect and Connect You
A lot of high-powered tech, wrapped up in an adorable package.
Emerging Tech
Time to Hide: Google’s Humanoid Robot Can Now Walk Outside on its Own
The robots are coming.
Emerging Tech
Robots Are Learning How to Build Better Clones of Themselves
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have created robotic natural selection.
Artificial Intelligence
Humans, Not Robots, Are the Real Reason Artificial Intelligence Is Scary
Intelligent weapons are too easily converted by software engineers into indiscriminate killing machines.
Emerging Tech
Video: Take a Stroll Along the Pacific Ocean Floor With a Robot
NOAA gives a peek at the Okeanos Explorer ship’s mission to 2,100 meters below sea level.
Emerging Tech
Why This Team Is Teaching Robots to Play Jazz
This is the future that researchers, funded by DARPA, are hoping to produce.
Emerging Tech
The Robots Taking Your Job Could Get You Killed
Automating processes at chemical and pharmaceutical plants could save money, but at what cost to safety?
Digital Government
Why Aren't There Nanobot Doctors Yet?
Scientists have long said that tiny robots would soon be able to conduct surgery and deliver drugs deep inside the body. Here’s why they’re still not a reality.
Emerging Tech
Here's What Its Like to Pilot a Giant Fighting Robot
MegaBots was founded by three engineers who didn’t want to use their skills to go work for another large tech firm in the valley.
Digital Government
Video: This Organization Wants to Stop Killer Robots
Fifty NGOs have banded together to create a campaign to encourage governments to act now to prevent dangerous autonomous machines in the future.
Emerging Tech
NASA's Newest Robot is Part Ape, Part Machine
A disaster-response robot for here on Earth.
Emerging Tech
The First Small Step on Mars Won’t Be Made by Humans, But by Robots
The U.S. space agency wants to use its R5 Valkyrie robot to explore the surface of Mars.
Emerging Tech