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TOKA robot checking a missile silo

Technology

Crawling robots will survey ageing US nuclear missile silos

Decades-old US silos holding Minuteman III missiles that have been a key nuclear deterrent since the 1970s will be assessed by robots that can crawl straight up walls

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image of the steerable needle robot showing the robotic actuation unit and bronchoscope. Note that the steerable needle is not shown

Technology

Robot guides needle into lungs more accurately than human doctors

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The robot and a scalpel

Technology

Self-healing robot recovers from being stabbed then walks off

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A small device shaped like Pac-Man can move on the surface of water and around obstacles without a motor. It could lead to the development of small robots for environmental monitoring of lakes and rivers.

Technology

Plastic 'Pac-Man' moves using water ripples

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Having AIs train robot dogs to balance makes them a lot cheaper

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Having AIs train robot dogs to balance makes them a lot cheaper

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RoboCap in a dish in the lab

Technology

Robotic pill that delivers drugs to gut could end insulin injections

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A diagram showing magnetic field distrurbances mapped out

Technology

Robot navigates indoors by tracking anomalies in magnetic fields

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Liquid robot can split into tiny droplets and reform into a blob

Physics

Liquid robot can split into tiny droplets and reform into a blob

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Biological robots grown from human tracheal cells induced neuron healing in a laboratory experiment

Health

Living robots made from human cells may induce neuron healing

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PMF97R Wings of the Common Darter Dragonfly (Sympetrum striolatum) from a dead specimen. Showing veins and transparent cells

Technology

Hovering robots could get more lift by 'treading water' in the air

Moving like an insect may not be the most efficient way for tiny flying robots to hover – they get more lift by taking advantage of vortices of air that form under their wings

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Robot that learns social cues could feed people with tetraplegia

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A four-legged robot can learn to walk in an hour like a newborn foal

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Efforts to regulate 'killer robots' are threatened by war in Ukraine

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Artificially intelligent robot perpetuates racist and sexist prejudice

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