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A rat and a robot rat

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Rats can make friends with robot rats and will rescue them when stuck

Rats that spend time exploring and playing with a robotic rat can become socially attached to it and even help it to escape when trapped

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Car assembly is heavy work – this exoskeleton can boost your strength

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Car assembly is heavy work – this exoskeleton can boost your strength

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Pipes going into water

Technology

Microbots made from mushroom spores could clean polluted water

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Pepper the robot gestures like a TED speaker

Technology

Robots are learning hand gestures by watching hours of TED talks

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A hamster wheel

Technology

Zapping liquid metal makes it move in a way that can power wheels

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Nira Chamberlain: The maths that can stop an apocalypse

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Nira Chamberlain: The maths that can stop an apocalypse

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Beth Singler: What machines can tell us about being human

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Beth Singler: What machines can tell us about being human

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A Pepper model robot gives evidence in parliament

Technology

Presenting robots as people stops us thinking clearly about AI

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Patricia Vargas: Should robots have rights?

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Patricia Vargas: Should robots have rights?

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SkinBot on a hand

Technology

This robot crawls over your body and scans your skin with a microscope

SkinBot is a palm-sized robot that crawls over your skin inspecting it with a microscope and sensors that detect electrical signals

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Technology

A swarm of robots weaves giant cocoons using fibreglass thread

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Technology

A tiny robotic capsule could roam your intestines and suck up mucus

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Technology

Watch this robotic fruit fly swoop, dive and perform impressive flips

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Chemistry

Why creating a chemical brain will be how we understand consciousness

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