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

Robots in Japan Now Have Emotions

Pepper, the “emotional robot,” sold out within a minute of going on sale.