Lynne Peskoe-Yang is a freelance science and science fiction writer.

It's dangerous to go alone. Send these squishy space robots in first. [Popular Mechanics]

It's dangerous to go alone. Send these squishy space robots in first. [Popular Mechanics]

“Everything that made the squishy bots the perfect space recon agents—their autonomous sensing power, remote control capabilities, and unprecedented impact durability—would serve them equally well as members of the advanced guard of Earth-bound disaster responders.”

I’m extremely proud of my latest piece for Popular Mechanics, and of the fact that I seem to be creating a beat that pertains almost exclusively to adorable life-saving semi-automatons. Meet the squishy bots here.

The biotechnologists making their mark on the international stage [Bianca Nogrady for Nature]

The biotechnologists making their mark on the international stage [Bianca Nogrady for Nature]

Paris firefighters used this remote-controlled robot to extinguish the Notre Dame blaze [IEEE Spectrum]

Paris firefighters used this remote-controlled robot to extinguish the Notre Dame blaze [IEEE Spectrum]