Instead of replacing the St. Louis Zoo’s deceased polar bears with live ones, zoo officials put robots up in their place. This slightly-better-than-average yard display will surely be remembered as ...

A robotic arm is a type of mechanical arm, usually programmable, with similar functions to a human arm. The links of such a manipulator are connected by joints allowing either rotational motion or ...

A pillow to the face is a good way to silence the snorer you sleep with. Unless you’re the snorer. In that case you’d probably prefer to share a bed with Jukusui-kun, a robot polar bear that doubles ...

Polar bears are some of the most charismatic megafauna we’ve got, and even early robot makers, it turns out, were charmed by them. This delightful little polar bear that blows bubbles is an early ...

Trying to sleep next to someone who regularly sounds like a Harrier jump jet taking off can turn the most mild-mannered spouse into a homicidal maniac. But never fear: the Japanese are on the case, ...

The Yeti robot at NSF’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 2011. Credit: James Lever, U.S. Army’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory A century after Western explorers first crossed the ...