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A yellow floating robot prepares to collect a plastic water bottle at the Marina Zollhafen. Zollhafen is located at the portion of the Rhine River that runs past the city of Mainz, Germany.

A Roomba for Rivers

Aquatic robotic cleaners, practical fusion, and more in this month’s Big Picture

4 min read

This Open-Source Robot Is Helping Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Stay in Touch With Loved Ones

iRobot provided the research team from Italy with free access to its software library

3 min read

Build a Rover, Send It to the Moon, Sell the Movie Rights: 30 Years of iRobot

Colin Angle on iRobot's 14 failed business models and the lessons the company learned from those failures

5 min read

Soft Robot Fingers Sweat to Cool Themselves

A sweaty robotic hand could cool down about three times more efficiently than humans

3 min read

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