We write a lot about robots here at New Scientist – the latest cutting-edge developments, the newest technology. Fancy reading about a golf robot? A laundry robot? A kickboxing robot? A space robot?

As I stick Mirumi onto my backpack, I think to myself, Nothing has changed in a decade. This is the latest consumer bot, the ...

Researchers have unveiled a miniature robot elephant with special 3D-printed "tissues" that allow for more complex and natural movements. A video shows the elephant grasp a flower with its trunk and ...

One of the easiest ways to make robots less creepy or allay fears that they might be plotting a revolution is to make them cute. Like, really stinking cute. Like one fluffy bot that was on display at ...

One of the biggest tech trade shows in the world just ended. CES 2025 brought us cool, zany tech demos, and lots of robots. The robots shown off highlight how companies are thinking about positioning ...

Nvidia’s CEO's Jensen Huang shared a stage with a cute robot to illustrate the role AI can play in robotics. Grek the droid appeared during VivaTech in Paris. The robot was trained to walk in an AI ...

At the Dash Forward keynote, DoorDash has unveiled a cute electric delivery robot named Dot that was designed specifically for quick neighborhood trips. Dot is around one-tenth the size of a car, can ...