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Scientists built a robot to help explain how a tropical bat spots insects perched on leaves using echolocation, a highly ...

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While much insight has been gleaned from how grasshoppers hop, their gliding prowess has mostly been overlooked. Now ...

At CES 2026, Beatbot arrived with two announcements and a ‘world’s first’ in automated pool cleaning.

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A collaboration between Princeton University engineers and entomologists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign began ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. This Phantom humanoid robot by Foundation is working in a factory. Some of them, however, ...

UPS will invest about $120 million to buy 400 truck-unloading robots from Pickle Robot Co., adding detail to its $9 billion automation plan aimed at cutting labor costs. The robots can unload trucks ...

What’s keeping them off the street is a challenge robotics researchers have circled for decades. Building robots is easier than making them function in the real world. A robot can repeat a TikTok ...