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    The Online Right’s Closing Campaign Argument: Fascist Anakin Skywalker Memes

    With Democrats poised to make significant gains in Tuesday’s midterm elections, Trump supporters have been reduced to posting bizarre Star Wars fan fiction.

    Best Air Purifiers for Allergies Are on Sale: Levoit, BlueAir (2026)

    Save on WIRED-tested picks from Blueair, Levoit, and Air Doctor, including compact models for your bedroom.

    Are Drone Ports the Next Annoying Tech Neighbor?

    Rick and Marcia LeCompte loved to watch the Cooper’s hawks that frequented a sweet-gum tree in their yard in Baton Rouge, La. But this...

    Atlas Robot’s New Hand May Outperform Humanlike Designs

    Today, Boston Dynamics is announcing a redesigned hand for its Atlas robot. The previous generation could do some crazy superhuman things with its three...

    Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses

    Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elementary...

    Barbara Mazzolai Wants to Build a New Field of Robotics

    Throughout her career, roboticist Barbara Mazzolai has turned to nature for inspiration. Now she wants to ensure the technology she builds gives back to...

    Beyond Dexterity: Why Contact May Define the Next Era of Robotics

    This article is brought to you by AGILINK.Throughout the exhibition hall at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics (ICRA), in Vienna, one demonstration...

    ​Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind Teach Spot to Reason​

    The amazing and frustrating thing about robots is that they can do almost anything you want them to do, as long as you know...

    Building a Foundation Stack for General-Purpose Robots

    This article is brought to you by X Square Robot.Large language models gave artificial intelligence a working recipe. Pretrain a large model on broad...

    DAIMON Robotics Wants to Give Robot Hands a Sense of Touch

    This article is brought to you by DAIMON Robotics.This April, Hong Kong-based DAIMON Robotics has released Daimon-Infinity, which it describes as the largest omni-modal...

    Defining Autonomy for Wellness Robots in Senior Care

    An examination of how socially assistive wellness robots could support the seven dimensions of senior wellness, and how a framework can measure their autonomy.What...

    Digit 5 May Be the First Humanoid Robot Worker That’s Truly Safe

    Despite the recent deluge of videos of humanoid robots doing backflips and kung fu, the actual pace of progress towards humanoids that can do...

    Drones With Claws Perch on Arctic Icebergs

    This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Microspines are one of many ways to enable robots...

    Gill Pratt Says Humanoid Robots’ Moment Is Finally Here

    In 2012, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). The multiyear, multimillion-dollar competition for disaster robotics resulted in...

    GoZTASP: A Zero-Trust Platform for Governing Autonomous Systems at Mission Scale

    ZTASP is a mission-scale assurance and governance platform designed for autonomous systems operating in real-world environments. It integrates heterogeneous systems—including drones, robots, sensors, and...

    Ground Robots Inherit the Kill Zone

    Borys Drozhak has a vision: a frontline almost free of humans, patrolled by flying drones and ground robots, and continuously monitored by AI-controlled sensor...

    Hello Robot Sets the Standard for Practical, Safe Home Robots

    Many roboticists (and at least one robotics journalist) have been seduced by the dream of a robot butler. And the rampant popularity of videos...

    HiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object Interaction

    This White Paper gives robotics researchers and engineers an overview of a new large-scale motion capture dataset built to close the data gap limiting...