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If you’re looking for a fun family project to round out summer vacation, consider picking up this gigantic Robot Building Kit. It’s designed for kids eight and up, although its 901-piece assembly will ...

With all the doom and gloom over the inevitable robot apocalypse, we’ve at least been able to take solace in the fact that we’ll see them coming—until today. Researchers from Northwestern University ...

This may be the tiniest robot you’ve ever seen. Shaped like a peekytoe crab, it’s a half-millimeter across and it can crawl, jump, bend, and twist through tiny apertures. The edge of a coin provides ...

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They’ve come in countless forms over the past few decades, but it seems the public just never grows tired of remote-controlled robots. Regardless of age, they inspire a unique fascination and are just ...

A robot, operated by health workers in Brisbane, is scanning patients' hearts more than 1,000 kilometres away in the Queensland outback. Sonographers sitting in a tiny room at the Royal Brisbane and ...

Healthcare systems worldwide are struggling with overcrowded hospitals, physician burnout, and rising surgery delays. Which is why it's always a good thing to see research exploring new solutions ...