This cute new robot from Anki is definitely the droid you’re looking for
Who among us isn’t a sucker for a cute robot you can play games with, that you can ask questions and that beeps like a …
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Watch a robot prove humans are obsolete by performing the most difficult task known to man
One of the many reasons I’ve lived in the same apartment for five years is because the idea of having to deconstruct and then reconstruct …
Scientists built a biohybrid robot out of living tissue and 3D printed parts
If you’re already scared of the emergence of robots and powerful artificial intelligence, then you’re not going to like the thought of building machines out …
Watch: This amazing robot never loses at rock-paper-scissors
IBM has already built a robot that can school humans in Jeopardy! and now Japanese engineers have built a robot that can best us in another of …
It is your patriotic duty to help these Americans build a giant robot that can beat Japan
Is there anything that would make you prouder to be an American than seeing an American-built robot defeat a giant Japanese robot in an epic …
Is it already too late to stop the robot apocalypse?
Look: Worries about the implications of artificial intelligence aren’t just the crazy ramblings of survivalist loons. Some of the world’s smartest people — including Stephen …
Robot that hitchhiked across Canada and Germany gets decapitated after 2 weeks in the U.S.
Sorry, hitchBOT: It looks like you weren’t ready for the U.S.A. after all. hitchBOT, in case you don’t know, was a hitchhiking robot that successfully made …
Japanese hotel replaces all human workers with robots and the result is horrifying
I have seen the future and it is awful. The Associated Press, via The New York Post, has published a dispatch from the Henn na Hotel in …
Video: MIT’s robotic cheetah is the scariest thing you’ll see all day
The stuff that’s going on in the robotics world these days is absolutely mind blowing. Of course, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention the …
The first Google robot worth truly getting excited for
It’s not a secret that Google is interested in robotics and that’s developing its own robots with technology purchased from no less than eight robotics …
Video: This may be the most incredible Google robot yet
Google has taken a big interest in developing robots and a new video posted by Google-owned robotics firm Boston Dynamics shows off what might be …
You’ll want one of these toys for your next terrifying blizzard experience
The Northeast is preparing to be hit by what may become one of the worst blizzards in the history of the region, with warnings already …
Video: Watch this incredible robotic cheetah run around untethered
Remember Boston Dynamics’ robot cheetah that can run at speeds topping 28 mph on a treadmill indoors, and which now belongs to Google? Well, that’s not …
These amazing self-folding robots are the closest thing to Transformers we’ve ever seen
Who says Transformers will never be real? Researchers from Harvard and MIT have developed some incredible robots that are capable of folding themselves up until they’re …
Korea’s worst baseball team builds robot fans to cheer demoralized players
When a baseball team hits a slump, it can feel insurmountable at times. It doesn’t help when the fan base isn’t there to support the …
The affordable robot assistant of the future is already here
SoftBank CEO and Sprint chairman Masayoshi Son has become something of a maverick. He said he bought Sprint because “I am a man, and every man …
Here’s one place where humans are coming to steal robots’ jobs
Man bites dog, human steals robot’s job? That’s sort of the story in Japan, where SingularityHub reports that Toyota is temporarily replacing robots with human …
Here’s how likely you are to lose your job to a robot
While increased automation will make our economy much more productive, it will also put a lot of people out of work. With this in mind, …
Meet the robot that might someday replace your entire fire department
Firefighters are our heroes… until we figure out how to replace them with robots, at least. Discovery News points us to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s newest robot …
Japanese engineers hasten humanity’s extinction, unveil fully-armed four-ton robot [video]
Sometimes it feels as though scientists and engineers have never watched the Terminator or Matrix movies at all. The Guardian reports that Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industry is showing off a new …
New android does dangerous, daunting dirty work in labs [video]
Ever wonder why robots always rebel against their human masters in every sci-fi movie in the history of the universe? It’s likely because we humans …
Throwback Thursday: Alphie
If your personal brand was incorporated in the 1980’s, there is a high likelihood you’ve had an encounter or two with Alphie. Made by Playskool, the white …
Sony Xperia Play commercial gets outed, makes no sense [video]
Leave it up to Sony’s Playstation ads to really make you scratch your head, right? The first commercial for the new Xperia Play has surfaced …
Google launches Android into orbit
While the mobile OS race heats up down here on Earth, Google has taken its attack on the smartphone space to the final frontier — …
MIT unveils autonomous, oil-skimming robots
Yesterday, MIT showcased an oil-skimming, autonomous robot dubbed the Seaswarm. As the devices site explains, “Seaswarm uses a photovoltaic powered conveyor belt made of a thin nanowire …
