The text file that runs the internet For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the ...

A web crawler (also known as a web spider or web robot) is a program or automated script which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. This process is called Web crawling or ...

Anthropic’s crawler is ignoring websites’ anti-AI scraping policies iFixit’s CEO says ClaudeBot hit the website’s servers ‘a million times in 24 hours.’ ...

Meta's new AI bots, Meta-ExternalAgent and Meta-ExternalFetcher, scrape web data and may bypass robots.txt rules.

Finding and disposing of underwater mines on the sea floor is one of the US Navy's hardest and most dangerous tasks. Robots could do the work safer.

Anyone who runs a website can protect their content from being searched by search engine crawlers and included in their search engine index.

You can now prevent OpenAI's ChatGPT from accessing your website, or parts of it, using robots.txt. OpenAI has published information about GPTBot, its new web crawler.

In the second video, a single crawler robot is unable to cross the gap between tables, but three robots are able to fuse together (again, using joints that have been heated and softened by ...

Google says this crawler always respects robots.txt rules. Special-case crawlers – Crawlers that perform specific functions (such as AdsBot), which may or may not respect robots.txt rules.

Google's Gary Illyes recommends using robots.txt to block crawlers from "add to cart" URLs, preventing wasted server resources.

Rope-climbing robots are the stuff of engineering dreams. As kids, didn’t we all clutter our family home with constructions of towers and strings – Meccano, or Lego – to have zipl… ...

Robot technology is being used in preparations for future deactivation and remediation work at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, sharing lessons learned from other decommissioning projects.