Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Roboticists in China have developed a life-sized, furry, AI-enabled antelope designed to monitor the migration patterns of its real-life counterpart. This "bionic" antelope is part of a growing arsenal of somewhat convincing-looking robots used to observe wildlife in up close and personal ways human researchers often can't. The robot was first reported on by Chinese news agency Xinhua and was reportedly co-designed by DEEP Robotics and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It was built to fill a gap in current efforts to monitor the once-endangered Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii).

The machine is designed to inspect industrial sites, respond to disasters, carry out logistics operations and support scientific research. Deep Robotics, a company from China, has unveiled a durable four-legged robot built to operate in extreme environments that humans struggle to traverse. It's called the Lynx M20, and it builds upon the agility of its predecessor, the Lynx robot dog. This versatile machine is designed to handle anything from inspecting industrial sites and responding to disasters to carrying out logistics operations and supporting scientific research. Here's what you need to know.

While we may be impressed by their artificial intelligence, humanoids often have an awkward, clunky gait. Now, experts have developed a robot with astonishingly lifelike movements – thanks to synthetic muscles beneath translucent skin. Polish startup Clone Robotics has shared a terrifying new clip of Protoclone, its'faceless, anatomically accurate synthetic human'. Like something from the Terminator movies, the 6-foot prototype machine hangs from the ceiling in the company's secretive development workshop. As ominous music plays, Protoclone twitches its limbs back and forth with its head bowed, like a puppet brought to life in a mad scientist's lab.

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The idea of a robotic dog that can move on almost any terrain might sound like something from the latest episode of Black Mirror. But as this terrifying footage shows, it has now become a reality. The state-of-the-art robot dog is called Lynx, and is the brainchild of Chinese company, Deep Robotics. Equipped with four wheels instead of paws, the bot can walk, climb, and even backflip on everything from rocks to snow. Deep Robtics hopes that it could be used in search and rescue operations. However, some sceptics have already raised concerns about the four-legged robot.