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Dual Coincidence is likely the most complex electromechanical game

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Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas can now grab and toss

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An engineer has built and programmed an all-robot band

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VR robots are building railways in Japan

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Microrobots can brush and floss teeth in a proof-of-concept study

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Labrador's robotic shelf for people with mobility issues

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How to stop a robot vacuum from getting stuck on the laundry rack

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Hexells – Self-Organising System of Cells Drawing Textures [WebGL]

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Hero 2.0, an ultra-low cost 3D-printed robotics platform

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Johns Hopkins Beast

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Furiosa's Cat Feeder (2016)

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The most powerful MRI scanner in the world delivers its first images

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Atlas robot does parkour

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Where are the robotic bricklayers?

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Robot Sticks to Ceilings by Vibrating a Flexible Disc

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How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance

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Metal Spheres Swarm Together to Create Freeform Modular Robots

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Insect-worn microcamera streams video to phone 120 meters away

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Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes

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Questions raised about research by OpenAg Initiative at M.I.T. Media Lab

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Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force

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Researchers Made 25-Ton Boulders They Can Move by Hand

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Robot gripper looks like a wilted flower, but can lift 100 times its weight

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Teenager builds his own Lego prosthetic arms

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Soft Silicone Pneumatics Are 3D-printed in a Tub of Gel

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2018 Engineering Gift Guide

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What Comes After the Roomba?

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3D-printing a stainless steel bridge full of sensors

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Darpa Wants Insect-Scale Robots for a Micro-Olympics

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Makita has made a sturdy coffee machine aimed at construction workers

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Working Lego pinball machine built from 15,000 bricks

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Festo's New Bionic Robots Include Rolling Spider, Flying Fox

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MIT's Soft Robotic Fish Explores Reefs in Fiji

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I am a roboticist in a cheese factory

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Johns Hopkins engineering students build custom walker for tiny toddler

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Origami-inspired soft artificial muscles

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Robot cracks open safe live on Def Con's stage

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Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot

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Robotic Fabricator Could Change the Way Buildings Are Constructed

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The first autonomous, entirely soft robot

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Robot gets rid of weeds automatically and without herbicides

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Origami Robot Folds Itself Up, Does Cool Stuff, Dissolves into Nothing

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Tiny robots climb walls carrying more than 100 times their weight

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‘Gods’ edging out robots at Toyota facility

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A Robot That Collapses Under Pressure (In a Good Way)

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Robotic Extrusion: 6-axis 3D printing

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A Tale of Two Zippers

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Fluid Actuators from Disney Research Make Soft, Safe Robot Arms

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MIT Cheetah Robot Bounds Off Tether, Outdoors

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Why Dyson's robot vacuum took 16 years, and why it's headed to Japan first

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Thousand-robot swarm self-assembles into arbitrary shapes

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How tall can a Lego tower get?

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'Gods' Make Comeback at Toyota as Humans Steal Jobs From Robots

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Insect-inspired flying robot handles collisions, goes where other robots can’t

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Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots

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MIT inventor creates cube robots with no external moving parts

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Eye-surgery by magnetically-guided microrobots moves toward clinical trials

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How much usage can a Lego piece take before it loses its 'clutch power'?

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MIT website hacked by Lulzsec

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How tall can a Lego tower get?

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The world’s fastest Rubik cube solver is made from Lego

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Robot Hand Beats You at Rock, Paper, Scissors 100% of the Time

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Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book

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MIT launches free online 'fully automated' course

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A swarm of micro-quadcopters

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It Flies: Da Vinci's Dream Comes True

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Robots Invent Their Own Spoken Language

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Man Unveils Interactive Toothpick Sculpture of SF That Took 35 Years to Create

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Quadrocopters juggle balls cooperatively

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The Möbius Gear

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Unbelievable balancing robot - stabilizes an articulated inverted pendulum

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Robotic quadcopter acrobatics like nothing we’ve seen

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A Robot That Balances on a Ball

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Neato's Robot Vacuum Is A Roomba Killer

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Welding and the automation frontier

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Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials

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A Stabilizing Robotic Tail for Floating Astronauts

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Mazda’s rotary engine in the age of the electric car

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Exosuit muscle control steps closer to reality

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Gigantic Aluminium Spiders

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An electric new era for Atlas

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Mitsubishi robot solves Rubik's Cube in 0.305s

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French Acrobatic Artist’s Low-Gravity Invention

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