Robots are machines built to perform complex tasks that may be too difficult, unsafe or just too tedious for humans. Live Science takes you through the latest developments in robotics, from the strangest robots to biohybrids, and questions whether we're really ready for intelligent robots. Whatever your interest in automatons, androids and artificial intelligence, our expert team of writers and editors are here to provide you with the latest robotics news, features and articles.
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Roboticists showcase tiny, frog-like robot that can hop across wet surfaces and swimA palm-sized robot inspired by frogs uses snapping rods to jump, swim and navigate an obstacle course.
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'Maybe robots can maintain houseplants': Readers react to letting humanoid robots take over their houseworkPoll Would you let a humanoid robot do your chores? Live Science readers shared their thoughts in a recent poll.
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Eerily humanlike AI-powered robot enters mass production in China — its makers say it could soon be helping you out at homeXpeng's engineers have designed a humanoid robot that they say is the first in the world that will walk itself off the production line.
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Faster than Usain Bolt? Here's all the records broken at this year's World Humanoid Robot Games in China.Humanoid robots at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing have outpaced and out-jumped human athletics benchmarks, but the event also revealed how much work remains before they can operate reliably in the real world.
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Scientists build tiny robots without motors that can fly using sound waves aloneA century-old trick for tuning musical instruments has been repurposed to power robots that fly, float and steer themselves using nothing but sound waves.
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Have your say: Would you trust a humanoid robot with your household chores?Poll Humanoid robots are moving out of the lab and into people's homes, from $30-an-hour cleaners to $20,000 domestic helpers. Tell us in our poll if you'd let one loose with a mop.
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'Thinking ahead' helps robots complete tasks twice as fastA new AI system lets robots plan their next move while they're in motion — removing reaction delays and doubling task speeds without any extra computing overhead.
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Meet Phantom Twist, a stealthy new drone that hides in plain sight by tricking your eyesHigh-speed rotation exploits the concept of motion blur to conceal a new drone while it's in flight.
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Robot dog can climb stairs, navigate a forest and bound over logs thanks to new, rapid AI training techniqueResearchers used reinforcement learning to train a quadrupedal robot to adapt to different environments using two different pre-learned gaits.
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