On March 8th, 2026 with 30 comments
"A surgeon in London says he has performed the UK's first long-distance robotic operation," reports the BBC, "on a patient located 1,500 miles (2,400km)...
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On November 22nd, 2025 with 30 comments
The Washington Post reports:
Scientists in Switzerland have created a robot the size of a grain of sand that is controlled by magnets and can deliver drugs...
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On November 10th, 2025 with 95 comments
Should we leave space exploration to robots — or prioritize human spaceflight, making us a multiplanetary species?
Harvard professor Robin...
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On June 26th, 2025 with 38 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Neuroscience News Science Magazine: Surgeons have performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the U.S.,...
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On June 28th, 2022 with 13 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Johns Hopkins University-led researchers have developed a new technique that let a partially paralyzed man...
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On June 10th, 2022 with 51 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: Robots can now be covered in living skin grown from real human cells to make them look more like us. As...
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On September 24th, 2020 with 34 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: Stomach ulcers and other gastric wounds afflict one in eight people worldwide, but common...
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On July 28th, 2020 with 38 comments
A tiny piece of Martian basalt the size of a 10p coin will be launched on board a U.S. robot probe on Thursday and propelled towards the red planet on a...
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On July 24th, 2020 with 36 comments
AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: China has launched its first rover mission to Mars. The six-wheeled robot, encapsulated in a protective probe, was lifted...
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On March 13th, 2020 with 14 comments
Europe and Russia have decided to push back the launch of their joint robotic rover to Mars until 2022, rather than launch this year as originally planned....
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On January 24th, 2020 with 45 comments
UPDATE (1/25/2018): NASA has successfully unfrozen Curiosity, which will now live to rove another day.
But here's the original report shared by a reader...
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On January 15th, 2020 with 36 comments
Researchers from the University Hospital Zurich, ETH Zurich, Wyss Zurich and the University of Zurich have developed a machine that repairs injured human...
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On March 9th, 2019 with 223 comments
dryriver quotes the BBC: A doctor in California told a patient he was going to die using a robot with a video-link screen. Ernest Quintana, 78, was at Kaiser...
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On February 1st, 2019 with 84 comments
dryriver writes: There is good news for people who have limited or no ability to speak, due to having suffered a stroke for example. Researchers at Columbia...
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On December 6th, 2018 with 221 comments
Joe_Dragon shares a report from ABC News: Twenty-four Amazon workers in New Jersey have been hospitalized after a robot accidentally tore a can of bear...
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On October 18th, 2018 with 52 comments
New advances are taking automation to the highest end of human endeavors, offering scientists a shot at some of the most intractable problems that have...
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On September 23rd, 2018 with 76 comments
sharkbiter shares a report from Space.com: The suspense is over: Two tiny hopping robots have successfully landed on an asteroid called Ryugu -- and they've...
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On July 20th, 2018 with 39 comments
A team of researchers at Glasgow University have built a robot that uses machine learning to run and analyze its own chemical reaction. The system is able to...
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On July 8th, 2018 with 113 comments
From a report: It is the most exacting of surgical skills: tying a knot deep inside a patient's abdomen, pivoting long graspers through keyhole incisions with...
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On May 16th, 2018 with 76 comments
pacopico writes: A start-up in California called Saildrone has built a fleet of robotic sailboats that are gathering tons of data about the oceans. The...
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On June 22nd, 2017 with 73 comments
sciencehabit writes: NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars in 2012, in part to analyze rocks to see whether the Red Planet was ever habitable (or inhabited)....
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On April 28th, 2017 with 62 comments
Kristine Lofgren writes: Home building hasn't changed much over the years, but leave it to MIT to take things to the next level. A new technology built at MIT...
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On January 22nd, 2017 with 52 comments
A tiny new Robotic Retinal Dissection Device -- nicknamed "R2D2" -- can crawl into an incision in the eye and lift a membrane no more than a hundredth of a...
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On December 7th, 2016 with 38 comments
Satellites cost millions of dollars to be launched into space and there's no guarantee that they will work without electrical or mechanical problems once in...
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On December 6th, 2016 with 22 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: Scientists have developed a mind-controlled robotic hand that allows people with certain types of spinal...
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On August 24th, 2016 with 44 comments
sciencehabit quotes a report from Science Magazine: Researchers have created the first completely soft-bodied robot, dubbed the 'octobot.' The palm-sized...
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On August 11th, 2016 with 17 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: In a new study published in Scientific Reports, eight patients paralyzed with spinal cord injuries exhibited...
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On July 19th, 2016 with 68 comments
An anonymous reader writes: MIT's Media Lab has produced Ori, a range of robotic, modular furniture designed to make small places feel more roomy. The...
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On May 14th, 2016 with 65 comments
"A child swallows a battery every 3 hours," reports a new article in the Washington Post. But now, gurps_npc writes: MIT has developed a small ingestible...
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On April 1st, 2016 with 222 comments
HughPickens.com writes: Andy Newman writes at the New York Times about an exhibit at Liberty Science Center in Jersey City that lets users walk a proverbial...
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