Wanted: intrepid individuals to explore new worlds. Must be able to work unsupervised. Humans need not apply (full text available to subscribers)
Space robot 2.0: Smarter than the average rover
The sci-fi future of surgery
Advances in robotics are pushing the limits of what surgeons can achieve, whether in the form of worm-inspired capsules to crawl through your gut, or systems swallowed in pieces that assemble themselves inside the body. Explore medical robots in our gallery
Robot to be controlled by human brain cells
Researchers who have used rat brain cells to steer a robot now want to try the same thing with human cells
Plasmobot: the slime mould robot
Single-celled slime moulds could be programmed as robots and set to work building micromachines
Lobsters teach robots magnetic mapping trick
Metal in buildings distorts the Earth's magnetic field in ways that could give indoor robots a low-cost map (full text available to subscribers)
Why AI is a dangerous dream
The robotics expert thinks artificial intelligence is an illusion that could lead to a future of unintelligent, unfeeling robot carers and soldiers (full text available to subscribers)
Robot with bones moves like you do
Replicating human bones, tendons and muscles could help robots move more like us
'Spiderbots' talk amongst themselves inside active volcano
A squadron of spindly robots dropped into Mount St Helens is the first network of volcano sensors that can route data to each other and to space, making them robust and efficient