Robotics
- Health & Medicine
Robots may soon actively crawl through your gut
Doctors are working with engineers to develop robotic tools that can crawl through the body to deliver medicine or scout for signs of disease.
- Tech
How to tell if a drone is stalking you
Is a drone surveilling you? Scientists have figured out a way to tell when it’s streaming video of you or your home.
- Agriculture
Robots will control everything you eat
Robots are now being introduced into all phases of how food is grown and prepared. In the future, though, they will be common.
- Tech
Young challengers take a deep dive into engineering
Thirty teens worked in teams to design, build and test remotely-operated vehicles. Their mission: to grab river sediment — and perhaps a shot at winning a major national competition.
- Tech
AI can guide us — or just entertain
Advances in artificial intelligence are changing the worlds of medicine, education and the arts.
- Science & Society
This robot won’t trip people up
New robots can follow the social rules of moving through a crowd, such as keeping to the right and passing on the left.
- Tech
These robots quickly swap ‘origami’ jackets — and tasks
Quick-change origami wardrobes help robots change their shape — and skills.
- Chemistry
Meet the world’s smallest monster trucks
These DNA-scale nano-vehicles surprised chemists. The bonds that hold their atomic building blocks in place grip the wheels more strongly than anyone had expected.
- Materials Science
Robot grippers imitate gecko feet to help nab space junk
NASA is testing robotic, gecko-inspired gripper hands that might one day help clean up space junk.
- Health & Medicine
Therapeutic robots may soon swim within the body
Scientists are designing tiny robots that may one day do work inside the human body.
- Animals
Underwater robot vacuums up lionfish
Lionfish damage coral reefs in the Atlantic Ocean. A new underwater robot hunts, stuns and captures the bullies with help from a human operator.
- Computing
Teaching robots right from wrong
Robots of the future will face tricky dilemmas. Researchers are working on tools to help robots make the right choices and keep people safe.
