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The best robot photos of 2023, from fashion shows to Hollywood strikes

This year, robots could be seen making drinks in cafes, performing at Paris Fashion Week and even joining screenwriters on the Hollywood picket line

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Robot eel reveals how the strange fish swim so efficiently

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the eel robot

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AI cleaning robot can tidy up clothes in a messy bedroom

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This robot can manage to pick up several items of clothing at once
Squishy inflatable tubes could make programmable soft robots

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Squishy inflatable tubes could make programmable soft robots

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Construction robot builds massive stone walls on its own

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Robotic chemist discovers how to make oxygen from Martian minerals

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Robotic chemist discovers how to make oxygen from Martian minerals

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Swarm of robots can make collective decisions by imitating bees

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Robots could make farms more biodiverse with precision crop planting

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Carolina Sphinx Moth (Manduca sexta)

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Wing-flapping robot helps explain the evolution of insect flight

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illustration of a wireless bioinspired robot

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Corkscrew-shaped microbot could use sound to spiral through human body

Microscopic helical robot travels through narrow tubes when exposed to sound, and could eventually be used to deliver drugs inside of the body by spiralling through its vasculature.

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Insect-size robot can crawl, turn and jump by triggering chemical explosions. Most robots are powered by electric motors and batteries which are tried-and-tested reliable technology but cannot be miniaturised past a certain point. Now Cameron Aubin and Robert Shepherd at Cornell University and colleagues have turned instead to chemical fuel - methane - which can store energy at much higher density than lithium-ion batteries and be scaled down to tiny insect-sized devices.

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Watch a frog-like robot use tiny explosions to hop around

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Flying bird robot can soar so well it uses almost no power

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A leaf-based version of the robotic gripper

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Robotic gripper made of paper can grab both delicate and heavy things

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The Lego robot

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Lego robot used to make DNA structures for tiny machines more quickly

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