When Allegra Fischer got married last November, her niece was the flower girl. Like most, her niece was a bit awkward going down the aisle, but Allegra's sister stood in the wings and encouraged the ...

Researchers have built a flower-shaped robot that can pick up objects more than 100 times its own weight. The robot has an origami "magic ball" skeleton, and its main advantage is that it's able to ...

Honeybee populations are declining at a terrifying rate. This poses a significant threat to agriculture, the economy, and pretty much life as we know it, due to bees’ crucial role as some of the ...

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Theo the robot works weekdays, weekends and nights and never complains about a sore spine despite performing hour upon hour of what for a regular farmworker would be backbreaking work checking Dutch ...

It can be hard to get bees to do their vital work in indoor farms or greenhouses. Instead, the plants may need a little robotic assistance to reproduce. Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated ...

A tiny, flexible machine might one day help neuroscientists eavesdrop on electrical activity in the brain, allowing them to pinpoint and potentially treat seizures. Inserted into the skull through a ...

Some consumers may be geting a Mother’s Day surprise, as gifted flowers arrive inside a robot. The nearly two-foot high robots travel around four miles an hour and already have delivered food and ...

This newly installed robot paints latex whitewash on greenhouse roofs. AURORA, Ore. — At Oregon Flowers Inc., a family-run cut flower business in Aurora, robots help run the show. The Meskers family ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. If someone asked you to imagine a robot, says Daniela Rus, a professor at MIT’s Computer Science and ...