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Human hand movement being replicated in a screen. Caption: It can help athletes improve performance.

A flying robot and a hummingbird. Caption: to decode the hummingbird hover for robotics.

Closeup of an insect's face with bulging bronze eyes and hair-like sensors on a black body with wings.

Chrome robot using 4 hands, each with 2 mallets, to play a wood xylophone against a white background.

Digital rendering of a featureless human figure standing on a path next to a segmented gray wall with a bike lane on top.

Person speaking. Caption: about nanobots replicating and taking over the world.

Researcher Mark Mote, a man with short dark hair wearing a plaid shirt, talks in front of a large blue banner. A young woman is near him in the background. Caption. "And that can be as simple as telling it how to add numbers."

Illustration of the northeast coast of North America and a yellow cylindrical sub with fins sending and receiving signals from an orbiting satellite. Caption: What are we finding when we go below the waves?

Still image from: Careers: Robotics for Kids

Factory with robotic arms working on something that looks like a UFO. Text reads, “Crazy Engineering. Space Claw.”

Text reads, “Curiosity at Martian Scenic Overlook,” against a blurry shot of the Mars landscape. The on-screen caption reads, “NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology.”

Text reads, “Curiosity Rover Snaps Billion Pixel Panorama,” against a blurry photo of Mars. The on-screen caption reads, “NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology.”

Text reads, “Explore Mars’ Jezero Crater With NASA’s Perseverance Rover,” over a photo of a rocky Mars landscape.

Wall of different images with planet Earth and a glowing light bulb in front. Text reads, “Global Science. Robotics and A.I., the Future of Humanity.”

Against the dry and rugged landscape of Mars, we see an arm of NASA’s Perseverance with a video camera attached. The camera is labeled “Watson Camera.”

A humanoid robot holding a drill. Caption: to continuously pay attention to his surroundings

Person speaking. Behind them is a graph, mathematical equations, and writing. Caption: and we want to apply that knowledge to robots.

Person standing and working on something at waist level. Image of a computer screen. Caption: the team's given their robot the gift of vision.

Glowing flare shines golden light on an image of Mars in the background. Text reads, "Insight Landing on Mars."

Mars rover sits next to an image of Mars beneath title card that reads, "Mars 2020 Landing Site: Jezero Crater Flyover." NASA icon at bottom is labeled, "Jet Propulsion Laboratory. California Institute of Technology."

Illustration of a starry night sky. Text reads, “How do you choose a landing site?”

Illustration of a starry night sky. Text reads, “How Long is A Year on Mars?”

Shadowy closeup of Mars appears behind text that reads, "Perseverance: The Search for Ancient Life on Mars." NASA icon at bottom is labeled, "Jet Propulsion Laboratory. California Institute of Technology."

Still image from: Monstrum: Cyborgs

Curiosity rover stands in clay colored dirt beneath a pale orange sky. Text reads, "Curiosity. Climate Clues on a Martian Mountain." NASA icon at bottom is labeled, "Jet Propulsion Laboratory. California Institute of Technology."

We look over the side of the Curiosity rover at a rocky brown terrain. Text reads, "NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Finds a Changing Landscape." Blue NASA icon appears at bottom.

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies above sandy ridges beneath gray sky. Text reads, "Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. The First Aircraft on Mars."

We look down over the edge of the Perseverance Mars rover at a rocky brown landscape with tracks running down the middle.

View of a workshop studio where three mechanical creatures lay on separate tables, in various stages of construction, with materials including metals, tubes, plastic, and wood.

Man standing in a grassy area holds a robotic device with plastic wings spread out like a bird in flight as Danni Washington looks on with a warm smile.

Person uses tweezers to hold up a tiny glowing computer part in front of their face which is visible in the blurred background. Text reads, Brains, Computers, and Technology.

Still image from: Nick News: Astrology, Maui, Dog Surfing, Exoskeletons

Still image from: Nick News: Cyberbullying, Robots, and Turtles

Still image from: Nick News: Inflation, Climate, Robots, Teen Rodeo

Mars hovers in shadows against the blackness of space. Text reads, "Opportunity. NASA Rover Completes Mars Mission." NASA icon at bottom is labeled, "Jet Propulsion Laboratory. California Institute of Technology."

Still image from: Origin of Everything: How WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots

Split screen video. On the left, a man stands in a yard with a portable controller, operating a drone. On the right, a blurry view of mountains, pines, and rock captured by drone.

Cardboard pieces cut and attached together to resemble robotic arms attempting to pick up rocks. Caption: Let's see if these robotic arms can pick up some space rocks.

Split image of mechanical clasps and pinchers stitching an incision and human hands manipulating mechanical controls. Caption: a surgeon can perform complex and delicate procedures

Robot with four short metal legs and two cylindrical rods with fluorescent yellow segments stands on the pavement next to a wood pallet.

Person touching a screen displaying an image of live tissue. Caption: The intuitive touch screen interface

Person holding a small mechanical device with leg-like structures and a circuit board. Caption: is it can jump higher and faster

Robot with logos for NASA and GM. Caption: that we developed to assist astronauts in space

Complex robotic machinery. Spanish captions.

Person placing a tennis ball between the finger and thumb of a robotic hand. Caption: RAPHaEL is a relatively inexpensive robotic hand.

Close up circuitry. Penny included for scale. Circuitry is smaller than the penny. Caption: at the University of Maryland are building microrobots,

Two rectangular drones flying in the air. Caption: fly safely and avoid collision on their own.

Person working on a robotic leg that is wearing a shoe. Caption: This is a battery that powers everything.

SUV with sensors, cameras, and other equipment attached to the bumper, hood, and roof. Caption: (male narrator) Imagine a car that drives itself and knows the rules.

Baby smiles up at camera as he sits on the floor in a room filled with toys. A woman crouches down toward the baby and 2 girls sit on chairs against a wall.

A light blue and white stripped caterpillar on a person's finger. Caption: (male) This little guy can grip, hold, and move.

Person touching an object made of stacked and connected cubes. Caption: are playing with Cubelets, small, smart modular robots.

Person sitting at a table across from a robot. On the table in front of them are objects of different shapes and colors. Caption: Would you put the green object with one peg into the red box?

Storm so strong it limits visibility while palm trees bend in the wind. Caption: Dropsondes have a huge impact on understanding hurricanes

2 teenage boys sit at a table in a computer lab. They hold a container lid top at the edge of a container to form a ramp for a small robotic vehicle to go down.

Person at a computer looking at a projection of a wire frame human face on a screen. Caption: how robots interact with humans,

Brightly colored tropical fish. Caption: how they work together to execute underwater maneuvers,

Robotic arms manipulating a small ball. Caption: is pushing the world of robotics and prosthetics

Child sitting in a chair under bright lights looking at a small humanoid robot on a table some distance in front of them. An adult stands by. Caption: It doesn't overstimulate or overwhelm a child with autism.

Teenage girl sits at a desk and looks at an open laptop while a woman standing beside her looks down at the laptop screen.

3D graphic of a mostly cylindrical object with a rotor on top against a backdrop of grass and buildings. Caption: the brain's signal to control the quadcopter.

Rectangular robot with a screen at eye level. Caption: (male narrator) Meet CoBot, short for "Collaborative Robot."

Person with a control box in their hands standing next to a short, wide robot with legs. Caption: (narrator) Palmer sees broad applications for these smart legs:

Person adjusting objects on a table next to a mechanical object with legs. Caption: (Rus) My goal is to make robots more capable, more autonomous--

Small mechanical objects with wings. Caption: And so began the creation of the Robobee,

Robot with an arm moving bottles next to a sink. Caption: (male narrator) Here's how to take the drudgery from housework.

Robotic arm placing a baseball hat on a water bottle. Caption: at Barrett Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts,

Lizard walking in a clear Plexiglas box. Caption: This is a sandfish, and his slithering moves

Inflatable object passing through a narrow opening in a solid wall to inflate on the other side. Caption: We call these vine robots because they grow

Several young people working on an object. Caption: the first all-female African-American RoboCup team.

Person in scrubs looking into an enclosed space while manipulating controls with both hands. Caption: (narrator) Surgeons like Yuh come here to test the robots.

Body of water in shades of red, yellow, range, and pink showing heat gradients. Caption: navigating using thermal sensors to locate people in the water,

Model of a human head being brushed by whiskers attached to wires protruding from a metal post. Caption: by a set of artificial wire whiskers,

Robotic arm working on an object. Caption: (narrator) The goal is not for robots to replace people altogether.

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Real-Life Robots

Man looks slightly off camera with an impassioned look. Behind him, the Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab with a collection of colorful toys. Caption. But this is a way to give back in a personal way.

Still image from: Talking Jobs - Health Care: Jobs of the Future

Still image from: Talking Jobs - Health Care: State of Health Care

Still image from: Talking Jobs - Tech: How Is AI Creating Jobs?

Partial closeup of a young person sitting at a computer table and typing on a laptop. Text on the computer screen reads, "Quick chat" with other fields appearing below.

Glowing filaments of light spiral around a rod in the dark. Luminous neon text reads, "The Nature of Invention."

Worried woman sits at a desk with a laptop in an office. She gives a wary look toward a smart speaker with three speaking bubbles floating above it. The first reads, “Order completed.” The second reads, “Tracking completed.” The third reads, “Invoicing completed.”

Still image from: What Is the International Space Station?

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Biomimicry

Futuristic robot sits at a virtual desk, typing at a virtual keyboard in front of an arched screen display.

Still image from: Xploration Earth 2050: Future of Learning

Inside a high-tech lab, we see a humanoid robot with a gold helmet, holding out its hand. On its chest are emblems for NASA and GM.

Two silver metal cylinders sit side by side, each on top of a piece of foam. One is flawless, the other is riddled with tiny holes.

Still image from: Xploration Earth 2050: Robot Makers and Innovators

Still image from: Xploration Earth 2050: Robot Revolution

Friendly robot with wide eyes and a screen on its chest that reads, “Hello, I’m Pepper.”

Still image from: Xploration Life 2.0: Drones Away

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Landing on Mars

Digital rendering of a Mars rover cruising over a red, rocky landscape with dusty mountains in the background.

Still image from: Xploration Outer Space: Space Bots