Anybody who’s already having trouble parsing out reality may want to buckle up. Because animatronics are apparently ready to supplant real animals. At the very least, this robot dolphin from Edge ...

Many mammals, including seals and rats, rely on their whiskers to sense their way through dark environments. Inspired by these animals, scientists have developed a robotic 'whisker' tactile sensor ...

Some ideas are so enchanting that it's easy to overlook small but frightfully important details. When first seen in the wild, the LS3 robot dogs created by Google-owned Boston Dynamics seemed like ...

Los Angeles is on its way to becoming a no-kill city, which is when over 90 percent of stray animals are adopted rather than euthanized. But to get there, it may take more than finding people with a ...

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(Nanowerk News) Inspired by animals, scientists working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Illinois Advanced Digital Sciences Centre in Singapore have developed a robotic ‘whisker’ ...

Two men in Maryland recently achieved Internet infamy when they were temporarily banned from hunting after they'd used crossbows to shoot a deer on state land. Or so they thought. The men had actually ...

Two hunters in Maryland were arrested after they unknowingly shot a “Robo-Deer” belonging to the Maryland Natural Resources Police. In October, 21-year-old David Few and 24-year-old Brian Stitley ...

When you witness the bond between a pet owner and their animal, it's hard not to think that certain species were created to be a companion of humans. These relationships have existed for hundreds of ...

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