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Robots

Snakes on a Terrain

Rovers Are So Yesterday. It’s Time to Send a Snakebot to Space

The student winners of a NASA competition designed a serpentine bot that could sidewind across lunar regolith or roll down hills.

Meghan Herbst

Beep Boop

Robots Are Helping Immunocompromised Kids ‘Go to School’

Gillian Okimoto

Power Puff

Forget Silicon. This Computer Is Made of Fabric

Sophia Chen

Operating System Upgrade

The Daring Robot Surgery That Saved a Man’s Life

Joao Medeiros

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You’re Probably Underestimating AI Chatbots

Steven Levy

Overload

Self-Driving Cars Are Being Put on a Data Diet

Paresh Dave

Gear Roundup

The NYPD Brings Robot Dogs Back

Boone Ashworth

Fast Forward

For Smarter Robots, Just Add Humans

Will Knight

Terminated

Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots

Paresh Dave

Climate Change

A Robot Finds More Trouble Under the Doomsday Glacier

Matt Simon

WIRED World

Robots With a Human Touch? Yes, Please

Ken Washington

Fancy Footwork

Humans Walk Weird. Scientists May Finally Know Why

Katrina Miller

Mirror Mirror

The Singularity of Allison Williams

Jordan Crucchiola

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How to Stop ChatGPT from Going Off the Rails

Amit Katwala

Helping Hand

Amazon’s New Robot Can Handle Most Items in the Everything Store

Will Knight

Running Up That Hill

Elon Musk’s Half-Baked Robot Is a Clunky First Step

Will Knight

Home Help

Amazon Wants Its Home Robot to Anticipate Your Every Need

Will Knight

Robophysics

A Wheel Made of ‘Odd Matter’ Spontaneously Rolls Uphill

Ben Brubaker

Neural Net

Why DeepMind Is Sending AI Humanoids to Soccer Camp

Amit Katwala

Bad Robot

GM's Cruise Recalls Self-Driving Software Involved in June Crash

Aarian Marshall

Bot Bias

How to Stop Robots From Becoming Racist

Khari Johnson

Tunnel Vision

Swarms of Mini Robots Could Dig the Tunnels of the Future

Chris Baraniuk

Unsafe Space

Amazon’s ‘Safe’ New Robot Won’t Fix its Worker Injury Problem

Khari Johnson