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Rats

Technology

Robots with 3D-printed muscles are powered by the spines of rats

Robots made of 3D-printed muscle and rat spines could help us understand conditions like motor neurone disease and the technique may eventually be used to build prosthetic devices

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Could we ever build a robot that thinks like a person?

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Could we ever build a robot that thinks like a person?

Video

dandelion

Technology

Microrobots made from pollen help remove toxic mercury from wastewater

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Why people become strangely attached to their robot vacuum cleaners

Technology

Why people become strangely attached to their robot vacuum cleaners

Regulars

Westworld season 3 review: Five-star TV where nothing is what it seems

Humans

Westworld season 3 review: Five-star TV where nothing is what it seems

Culture

Robots and human diver

Technology

Small robots could help look after salmon without stressing them out

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Robot plants made from origami mimic transpiration to track the sun

Technology

Robot with origami leaves can follow the sun like a real plant

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A robot could improve how we treat obsessive compulsive disorder

Mind

Meet the compulsive robot who could help us treat OCD better

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French factory workers

Technology

Robots are taking manufacturing jobs but making firms more productive

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Robots

Technology

Soft finger-like robots can sweat to cool down just like humans

Soft finger-like gripper robots have been engineered to sweat when hot and are able to cool down almost three times more efficiently than humans

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Technology

A robot equipped with real pigeon feathers flies like a living bird

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Video

The tiny micro-robot that could save eyesight and cure blindness

Video

Technology

Turn any object into a robot using this program and a 3D printer

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Technology

Robot debates humans about the dangers of artificial intelligence

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