This photo taken March 26, 2013, shows flight test pilot Alex Gustafson carrying an InsituScanEagle unmanned aircraft in preparation for a flight in A...
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drones

Should FBI manhunts use drones? US lawmakers debate

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Carnegie Mellon University
robot

Robot learns to recognize objects on its own

Kevin Ma, Pakpong Chirarattananon
Kevin Ma, Pakpong Chirarattananon
robot

Robo-bugs are here! World's smallest bot takes flight

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Robot hand
iRobot
robot

Three-fingered iRobot hand points to strong, nimble future machines

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KAIST / PLoS One
cyborg

Turtle becomes 'biobot' with scheme that controls voluntary behavior

Mantis
Mantis
robot

Mantis robot creator inspired by Star Wars AT-AT walkers

NBCNews.com
NBCNews.com
robot

Robot pharmacist fills patient prescriptions

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Simon Garnier
robot

Robotic ants provide path to real ant brains

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Chen Li / Tingnan Zhang / Daniel Goldman
innovation

Meet the 6-legged robot lizards that may one day roam Mars

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Breuer and Swartz labs / Brown University
robot

Holy flight plan: Researchers build a robotic bat wing

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Harvard University via YouTube
robot

Boom! Combustible gases send soft robot soaring

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British troops in Afghanistan use handheld nano surveillance helicopters
Sgt Rupert Frere RLC
innovation

Pocket-sized drones deployed to Afghanistan

Rex and Bertolt Meyer pose
Science Museum
innovation

Real million dollar 'bionic man' built, goes on tour

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Filabot via YouTube
innovation

Recycle plastic waste into 'ink' for 3-D printers

File photo of a robot car
YouTube / Stanford
innovation

Go ahead and text, but let the robots drive

he ACTUV robot ship is designed to track enemy submarines for up to 90 days at sea.
DARPA
robot

Watch a futuristic robot ship track enemy subs

Fish gliding
Michigan State University via YouTube
innovation

Robo fish can glide (almost) forever

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Phobos Surveyor and hedghog graphic
Stanford University
robot

Spikey robot ‘hedgehogs’ to explore Martian moon

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Ecovacs Robotics
innovation

Window-cleaning robot swipes a chore from to-do list

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U.S. Army
innovation

Black Hawk helicopter flies all by itself