The results can be a bit creepy. Designing a human-inspired hand that can bend backward to pick up a broad range of objects and detach itself to crawl over to another firmly plants it inside the uncanny valley. If it didn’t look so much like a human hand in the first place, it would probably be less unsettling.

The four-legged miniature machine is powered by tiny explosions.

Ryan Howard has spent six years creating the replica from the iconic 1980s film.

It's not quite as good as a Boston Dynamics bot, but it is a lot cheaper.

Chiptole's robot "Autocado," designed to cut, core, and peel avocados, is expected to slice guacamole prep time in half.

Canada's Sanctuary AI has revealed a new humanoid robot, shooting for the "world's first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots (GPR)." Phoenix builds on some very impressive earlier work and a neat "piloted" approach to training.

There has always been tension between technology and capitalism. On the one hand capitalism rewards innovation and efficiency. That’s why capitalism has always outperformed managed economies. If a company builds a better mousetrap for less money, then people will have a better mousetrap for less money. Without capitalism it’s unlikely we’d all have smartphones in our pockets that we can use to have pizza delivered to our door within the next 30 minutes. I don’t want to live in a world where I can’t have pizza delivered to wherever I happen to be within 30 minutes.

Two robotic trash cans collected refuse and recycling at Astor Place in Manhattan as part of Cornell University researchers' experiment.

The NYPD robot pooch Digidog got a new leash on life Tuesday — and police leaders insist it’s not the dystopian surveillance nightmare it was made out to be the first time New Yorkers got a look at it. Two years after the robot landed the NYPD in the doghouse with civil rights advocates, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell promised to keep New Yorkers abreast of how the operations of the cyber mutt and two other tech tools pilot tested.

Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Israel, have created a micro-robot the size of a single biological cell that navigates using both electricity and magnetic fields and can identify and capture a single cell, opening the door to a vast array of applications.

A Scottish woman has credited an innovative robotic surgery procedure for helping to save her life. Deborah Speirs from Tollcross in Glasgow was told she had stage three bowel cancer in March 2021. Instead of opting for traditional cancer surgery, she agreed to having a robot perform the operation, directed by a surgeon.

Nearly three years into the pandemic, travel has returned but hotel staff have not. Unable to find workers, hotel owners and managers are having to adapt to what they believe is the new normal.

After attempting to sell its tech to large food service companies, cooking automation startup Jasper has shifted to direct-to-consumer. In a recent conversation, CEO Gunnar Froh told TechCrunch about the pivot and gave a general update on the company, a member of this year’s Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2022.

British shoppers looked on with surprise and delight as a supermarket worker casually handed over groceries to the newest members of the team - delivery robots. "Where are you going?" one passer-by asked a white robot, resembling a small fridge on wheels. Another person stopped to wave it goodbye as it rolled off to drop an order to a customer's door in the central English town of Bedford.

A collaboration between Neon Dance and Bristol Robotics Laboratory is due to open at The Place in London on 14 October. Prehension Blooms is a dance piece starring telepresence robots based on sand-dwelling organisms, which interact with human performers.

An early prototype of Tesla Inc.’s proposed Optimus humanoid robot slowly and awkwardly walked onto a stage, turned, and waved to a cheering crowd at the company’s artificial intelligence event Friday

Tesla CEO Elon Musk showcased his much-touted humanoid robot “Optimus” at the electric vehicle maker’s “AI Day” event on Friday. The billionaire has said a robot business will be worth more than its cars, hoping to expand beyond self-driving vehicles that have not yet become a reality despite his repeated promises.

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk blamed overreliance on factory robots for sending the electric carmaker to "production hell" four years ago, saying humans were better at certain jobs.

There once was a highly evolved being who descended to Earth from the heavens, bringing a message of peace and salvation to the unwashed masses of humanity sprawled across their planet. These people reacted to this visitor from beyond their world with a mixture of hope, fear, trepidation, suspicion, and eventually outright hostility.

WTF?! Russia has unveiled a robotic dog that carries an anti-tank rocket launcher on its back. While such a creation has plenty of scary, Black Mirror-style implications, it appears to be little more than a $2,700 machine purchasable from Alibaba, carrying an RPG it might not be able to fire very well (or at all), and dressed like a dog-ninja, for some reason.