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China’s latest military gadget looks like it was ripped from a science fiction storyboard: a motion-controlled combat robot ...

Researchers have developed “link-bots”—modular, self-propelled chains that achieve complex group behaviors using only basic geometric connections and vibration. In a recent Science Advances article, ...

A robot distributes gifts to visitors during a robot skills competition in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, Dec.