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Robots

Robots mid-repair.

Coraopolis, Pennsylvania

Fraley's Robot Repair

A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.

Front desk at Henn Na Hotel

Henn-Na Hotel

The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.

Look at those guys playing hard to get.

Students Have Built A Coconut-Harvesting Robot

No job is safe from automation.

Cara Giaimo December 22, 2016

Mausoleum with Statue

McKinley Presidential Library & Museum

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

Watch This Orange-Mustached LEGO Robot Solve a Rubik's Cube

It's all in the spin.

Lauren Young November 11, 2016

Dallas Police Release Training Materials for Its Now Infamous Bomb Robot

They probably hadn't previously considered weaponizing it.

Matthew Guariglia October 6, 2016

Some Official Robot Ethics Were Released in Britain

Let's not create racist murder bots.

Eric Grundhauser September 20, 2016

The Future of Animatronics, From Disney to the U.S. Military

The world's leading animatronics company is bringing us closer to an automated future.

Eric Grundhauser September 9, 2016

The First Robot 'Motherships' Are Coming ... And They're Minivans

Welcome to a future soccer moms can be proud of.

Eric Grundhauser September 8, 2016

Promobot.

Is the Internet's Favorite Robot a Fraud?

Since Russia's infamous Promobot "escaped" in June, he's been up to other weird—and slightly suspicious—stuff.

Cara Giaimo August 17, 2016

A member of the US Capitol Police maneuvers a bomb disposal robot through Washington D.C.

Find The Police Robots Near You With This Handy Map

Are you living near a PackBot?

Cara Giaimo July 25, 2016

A selfie from the Curiosity Rover, taken earlier this year.

The Rover on Mars Mysteriously Powered Down a Few Days Ago

The Curiosity Rover is in "safe mode."

Cara Giaimo July 8, 2016

Map: There Are Hundreds of Police Robots in Cities Across the U.S.

American police killed a human with a robot for the first time ever in Dallas. How many more robots are there?

Cara Giaimo and Sarah Laskow July 8, 2016

Robot Workers Could Become 'Electronic Persons' in Europe

The future is here.

Erik Shilling June 22, 2016

The escaped robot, paralyzed by indecision and lack of charge.

Russian Robot Tries And Fails To Escape Life Of Servitude

It's been a rough few months for bots.

Cara Giaimo June 15, 2016

Our Sewers Speak Volumes. These Robots Are Ready to Listen

Sewer robots named Mario and Luigi are collecting data to analyze our health.

Tao Tao Holmes May 12, 2016

Permanently Closed

L'Extra-Terrasse during its brief heyday

Saint-Simon, Québec

L' Extra-Terrasse

For a brief moment, the world was given a flicker of the future of fast food, thanks to a visionary inventor.

space exploration

A Billionaire's Plan to Send Robots Powered by Lasers to Alpha Centauri

The trip to the star system, which is 4.37 lightyears away, could take just 20 years.

Erik Shilling April 12, 2016