One small backflip for a robot is one giant leaping backflip for humankind

ATLAS, THE HULKING humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics, now does backflips

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This tower sucks up smog and turns it into diamonds

In one of the world’s most polluted cities, there’s a futuristic tower that sucks up smog, turns it into clean air, and filters out the smog particles so they can be turned into diamonds.

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Human Racer Defeats Yamaha's Robot Motorcycle

MOTOBOT attempted to better the lap time set by MotoGP star, Valentino Rossi

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Sally the Salad robot

Sally the Salad Robot from Chowbotics can create a seven ingredient salad in less than a minute.

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Robot "secret agent" infiltrates and influences schools of fish

A humanoid robot may have just been granted citizenship status for the first time, but we're still a long way from crossing the uncanny valley to where they blend seamlessly into our society. But apparently fish are easier to fool, since a team from EPFL

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Futuristic Robot Lets Your Arms Lift Half a Ton

Have you ever lifted half a ton? With this set of robotic arms, you could do so with as little as two kilogram (five pounds) of force, allowing you to have superhuman strength.

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Soon You Could Unlock Your Phone With Your Clothes

Programmable magnetic fabric could mean a new way to interact with your phone.

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Sawyer Robot Give out Halloween Candy

Georgia Tech's Robot Autonomy and Interactive Learning Lab used a Rethink Robotics' Sawyer cobot to hand out 1,000 pieces of candy in three hours to trick or treaters.

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Forget Climbing Stairs, This Robot Takes the Elevator

ANYmal is a four-legged robot that the Swiss university (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich) hopes will be able to useful in any number of real world applications.

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Cockroach Robot Grows Tail, Does Flips

The nice thing about making bio-inspired robots is that you can take inspiration from biology, but you don’t have to be constrained by it.

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