Jan 21, 2026 | AI Stories, Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Space
A space startup founded by veterans of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is recruiting partners in its quest to build robotic arms powered by artificial intelligence. Founded in late 2024, Puyallup, Wash.-based Orbital Robotics is still in its infancy — but it has...
Jan 15, 2026 | Chemistry, Metals, Robots
An iridium metal complex has been identified as a promising, if unconventional, new antibiotic drug, a new study finds. The compound is one of more than 600 produced in a study published in December in the journal Nature Communications. The researchers used a...
Jan 5, 2026 | Featured, Manufacturing, Robots
For decades, engineers have been trying to create robots that look and act human. Now, rapid advances in artificial intelligence are taking humanoids from the lab to the factory floor. As fears grow that AI will displace workers, a global race is underway to develop...
Dec 17, 2025 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Robots
Designing a swarm of fully autonomous, submillimeter-sized robots sounds like an expensive, if not impossible task. However, a team at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan not only built a new generation of recordbreaking, solar powered...
Dec 17, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Robots, Space
Navigating in a microgravity environment is a challenge even for trained human astronauts, but it is even more challenging for autonomous robots, limiting their use in places like a space station. Now, however, Stanford researchers have used artificial intelligence to...
Dec 11, 2025 | Agriculture, Robots
In the agricultural sector, labor shortages are increasing the need for automated harvesting using robots. However, some fruits, like tomatoes, are tricky to harvest. Tomatoes typically bear fruit in clusters, requiring robots to pick the ripe ones while leaving the...
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