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2,000 volunteers join a painstaking effort to restore massive skeleton of prehistoric predator

Volunteers armed with chisels, brushes and protective goggles chip away at rock encasing the bones of a massive prehistoric ...

See how the skeleton of a huge 240 million-year-old amphibian is cleaned

Unearthed in southern Poland in 2023, the fossil is the first Mastodonsaurus skeleton to be found in such a well-preserved, ...
European Wildlife on MSN

Hidden camera captures an elusive salamander in its natural habitat

A hidden wildlife camera captures a rare Alpine salamander (Salamandra atra) exploring the rocks beside a cool mountain ...

MIT built a 300-gram robot that flies through the sky, dives underwater and takes off again, just like a diving bird

Nature has given us amphibians in various forms, from frogs to other multi-environment creatures, yet few things transcend ...

France built special underground tunnels beneath its roads to help thousands of migrating frogs and salamanders survive every year

Every spring, thousands of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders across France leave their winter shelters in the woods and ...
Brian Barczyk on MSN

It started with one reptile - inside an African animal collection

This video explores a wide range of African animals kept in one collection, from reptiles to amphibians and insects It showcases species like ball pythons, monitors, tortoises and chameleons, ...
Ars Technica

GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers

Dozens of new robot arms have been installed at General Motors’ flagship electric vehicle factory in Detroit—even as 1,300 workers remain out of work following what was supposed to be a temporary ...
The Conversation

AI robots can go rogue – a researcher explains how easily it happens

Earlier this year in Beijing, a humanoid robot crossed a half-marathon finish line in a blistering 50 minutes, 26 seconds. The feat immediately lit up global headlines for shattering the human world ...
The New York Times

Why It’s Nearly Impossible to Build a Robot Without China

Building on the country’s electric vehicle industry, Chinese companies are making robot parts at a scale and price point others can’t match. China’s lead in humanoid robots was evident at last month’s ...
CNBC

Job training for robots: How China is getting machines ready to join the workforce

At robot learning centers in China, people teach machines how to work in a variety of scenarios. Humanoid robots are part of Beijing's bigger industrial strategy to dominate global markets and supply ...
Ars Technica

The Internet can’t stop watching Figure AI’s humanoid robots handling packages

The robotics startup Figure AI livestreamed humanoid robots placing thousands of packages onto a conveyor belt for more than a week—a spectacle that included a robot competing against a human intern ...
Wired

If You Have $650,000 and Don’t Buy This Giant Mecha Robot You’re a Fool

Unitree is a Chinese company known for making adorable, relatively affordable robots that dance and shuffle and such. Last night, it revealed its latest creation, which is something of a departure: a ...