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A picture of human skin in close-up

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Artificial skin can detect nearby objects without even touching them

A skin crafted from two layers of electrodes around an ion-infused sponge is better at sensing than human skin because it can detect nearby objects and what they are made of

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A small device shaped like Pac-Man can move on the surface of water and around obstacles without a motor. It could lead to the development of small robots for environmental monitoring of lakes and rivers.

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Motorless 'Pac Man' bot surfs across water, avoiding objects

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A man using the Utah Bionic Leg to take a step up

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Prosthetic leg can 'change gears' to make going up stairs easier

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RobotFalcon chases birds

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Flying robotic falcon scares away flocks of birds

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The boot-like exoskeleton tested

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Exoskeleton boots learn how you walk to help improve your gait

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Robot turtle

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Transforming turtle robot can walk on land and swim through water

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A yellow robot dog

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Boston Dynamics leads call to stop arming robots – will anyone listen?

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Bioinspired robots interact with performers in new dance project

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Bioinspired robots interact with performers in new dance project

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Cassie the robot running on a track

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Watch a two-legged sprinting robot set a world record over 100 metres

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A diagram showing magnetic field distrurbances mapped out

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Robot navigates indoors by tracking anomalies in magnetic fields

Metal pipes beneath the floor provide enough local disturbance of Earth’s magnetic field for an autonomous robot to work out where it is and navigate around a lab

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Robot dog learns to walk on tough terrain in just 20 minutes

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Underwater robot scans seabed to seek out the most harmful pollution

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Artificial finger can identify what common material things are made of

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Flexible robot hand with precise grip lifts 1000 times its own weight

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