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The future of Autonomous Robots
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- 2016first covered
- 14 Feb 2026latest update
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- Russian soliders surrender to Ukrainian gun totting robot in a world firstSecurity and privacy
- Senior Pentagon officials reveal new autonomous killer robot policyRobotics
- A fully autonomous robot dentist just completed its first human procedureRobotics
- Elon Musk’s Neuralink outfit has implanted its first brain chip in a humanBiotech and enhanced humans
- Amazon’s new humanoid robots get busy helping humans in the warehouseRobotics
- The toughest known structure ever has been discovered by a robot labRobotics
- DeepMind’s RobotCat AI generates its own data to learn new skills by itselfAI and intelligence
- The world’s first tunnel dug by an autonomous robot swarm was just completed in the UKRobotics
- Tiny autonomous brainy robots get ready to explore your body from withinRobotics
- Boston Dynamics’ robot dog gets busy herding New Zealand sheepRobotics
- Researchers show off transformer-like robots that change shape without central controlRobotics
- Volkswagen envision a future where autonomous robots charge your EVRobotics
- US Army explores the use of shape shifting robots for 2040Robotics
- Synthetic proteins with “unlimited potential” usher in new era of smart cell therapiesBiotech and enhanced humans
- First spacecraft piloted by a humanoid robot docks with ISSSpace
- Fully autonomous raspberry picking robot successfully completes field trialsRobotics
- Elon Musk unveils Neuralink’s brain implants that will help humans merge with AIBiotech and enhanced humans
- World’s first autonomous robot completes its journey inside the human bodyRobotics
- A US start up has created the world’s first fully autonomous vertical farmRobotics
- DARPA announces plans to build conscious robots using insect brainsAI and intelligence
- World first as Japanese rovers relay incredible photos from distant ancient asteroidSpace
- A robot taught itself how to identify and manipulate objects autonomouslyRobotics
- Canada ends its three year Universal Basic Income trial two years earlyRobotics
- Ocado shows off the world’s most advanced automated warehouseRobotics
- Rolls Royce is building cockroach like robots and snakes to fix airplane enginesRobotics
- Scientists put a worms mind into a Lego robot to control it, and it workedRobotics
- Robots in extreme environments, going where no human can, or wants to goRobotics
- Nvidia unveil Isaac, a virtual simulator to help companies create advanced robotsRobotics
- EU law makers are thinking of letting people sue robotsRobotics
- World’s most advanced humanoid robot, ATLAS, goes for a run in the parkRobotics
- Vertical farms edge closer to disrupting traditional agricultureEarth and energy
- Las Vegas goes high tech with cocktail mixing robotsRobotics
- The robots of the future might not have a brainRobotics
- World’s first DNA robots successfully move and deliver molecule sized cargoRobotics
- Researchers have taught robots to predict the consequences of their future actionsRobotics
- DeepMind unveils the world’s first test to assess dangerous AI’s and algorithmsSecurity and privacy
- World first as drones and robots plant, tend and harvest their own cropsRobotics
- Robo-evolution in action, researchers unveil self-healing transformer robotsRobotics
- World’s first autonomous robot Dentist implants two teeth into a patientRobotics
- World first as AI and Blockchain come together to boost “Robot Intelligence”AI and intelligence
- Farmers in the future will “shepherd herds of robots”Robotics
- South Korea introduces the world’s first “Robot Tax”Robotics
- Self-evolving killer robots are almost here, and experts want a debateSecurity and privacy
- UN cancels crucial 2017 debate on autonomous warfare because Brazil owes it moneySecurity and privacy
- The Future of Minds and Machines | IAICC, Dubai | Innovation Keynote SpeakerArticles
- Dubai’s first Robocop starts active dutyRobotics
- Meet the new harvesting robots that can pick 10,000 apples an hourRobotics
- Amazon is on track be the world’s first fully automated fulfilment companyRobotics
- Robots are taking over and automating the world’s minesRobotics
- Locus’s new robots learn to navigate warehouses by themselvesRobotics
- Warehouse robot’s upgrade helps it pick goods at human speedRobotics
- Domino’s to start robo-deliveries in GermanyTransport and mobility
- Dubai will start replacing real police officers with robo-cops in MayRobotics
- Disney hopes children will love its new autonomous story-telling robotsAI and intelligence
- So long Asimov’s Laws, say hello to the 23 Laws of RoboticsRobotics
- Norwegian robot learns to self-evolve and 3D print itself in the labRobotics
- Europe will debate robot rights, ethics and AI kill switches in FebruaryRobotics
- New EU report recommends Universal Basic Income for all 27 member statesRobotics
- Robots to get legal recognition as Europe votes to classify them as ‘Electronic persons’Robotics
- 1.2 million jobs to vanish as Foxconn unveils plans for fully autonomous factoriesIndustry and manufacturing
- Velodyne’s new miniature LiDAR means many more autonomous thingsAI and intelligence
- NASA demos RASSOR their “Blue collar” robot that will mine Mars for rocket fuelSpace
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