This giant manned robot might patrol the North Korean border
Robots can be terrifying all on their own, but stick a human being inside and give them control of the mechanical muscles that provide superhuman strength …
Robots
This iPhone-controlled robot will destroy you… in air hockey
There are countless games on the App Store that will make you feel inferior to a computer-controlled opponent. Almost all of those apps will beat you with in …
Watch this huge combat robot play with real cars for fun
Having never build a robot of any kind, I can’t say whether it’s an enjoyable experience or not. What I can say, and with utter …
Watch these potential Mars robot designs endure the Utah desert
Testing a vehicle meant to traverse the harsh conditions of another world is pretty difficult here on Earth, but when it comes to putting potential Mars …
Parkour robots can do tricks you’d only dream of
Few people can say they can master parkour, the art of surpassing obstacles by jumping over or bouncing off of them. It looks all very …
Meet the professor who will help robots learn common sense
Sergey Levine is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley whose research is focused on the thing our parents used to make such a fuss over, …
Robot patrol: Israeli Army to deploy autonomous vehicles on Gaza border
Israel is planning to bolster its high-tech arsenal by deploying fully autonomous military vehicles along the country’s dangerous border with Gaza. “This is the future …
Harvard scientists develop first autonomous soft robot
Meet the octobot, a unique new creation out of Harvard that the university says could be the first step in a new kind of bot. …
Meet the robots that will help us win the wars of the future
If former Marine and entrepreneur Sean Bielat has his way, the law enforcement officer tentatively approaching a vehicle in the future after making a traffic …
Heartless robotic security guard viciously attacks small toddler
The robot apocalypse has been a long time coming, but I thought we had a few more years left before Skynet took over. Unfortunately, that …
This Battlebots match is 3 minutes of pure robot carnage
Battlebots is very transparently all about watching lovingly-built machines getting smashed to pieces. There’s no X Factor-style character development, no American Ninja Warrior sob stories. It’s two metal …
Boston Dynamics’ tiny new robot sneaks through your house like a ninja
Boston Dynamics, the robotics company that will someday be responsible for the end of humanity, just unveiled its latest creation. It’s called SpotMini, and it’s …
That runaway Russian robot was probably a PR stunt
Yesterday, the internet went slightly crazy for the story of Promobot, a Russian-made “runaway robot” that escaped its handlers and caused a traffic jam on a …
This is the droid your household has been looking for
For as much as people talk about (and rightfully get excited about) smartphone advancements, we don’t often hear about technological strides in the field of …
Meet Leo, the robot that could make air travel a little less awful
Raise your hand if you hate dealing with airports. As soon as you’re done waiting in line to drop off your luggage, you’re off to …
Cool robot hand learns as it goes
It’s a device that brings to mind the bodyless hand, Thing, from The Addams Family: a human-like robotic hand, engineered by scientists at the University …
This humanoid robot diver is a submersible avatar
A professor at Stanford University has designed a robotic humanoid diver with articulated hands that is designed to be an underwater avatar, exploring the way …
Watch China’s Donald Trump show off his robotic maids
If there’s one thing we know about Donald Trump, it’s that he likes showing off and talking about how rich he is, often in the …
These creepy aquatic robot snakes are straight out of ‘The Matrix’
If you thought the Google-owned Boston Dynamics made the world’s most frightening robots, think again. Via Gizmodo, a new collaboration between the Norwegian University of Science …
Is this the future? Chinese researchers unveil human-like ‘robot goddess’
The state of robotics is seemingly moving at warp speed these days. Not only do we have Google’s Boston Dynamics division churning out increasingly adept, capable …
Man spends $50,000 to build a lifelike Scarlett Johansson robot
Plenty of guys out there have the hots for Scarlett Johansson, but most of them haven’t taken their obsessions to a level that’s this unhealthy. Mirror.co.uk brings us …
Watch six mini-robots that weigh less than 100 grams pull a 3,900 pound car
Looking to the insect world for inspiration, researchers at Stanford’s Biomimetic Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory over the past few months have made a number of strides …
Watson-powered robot mans concierge position at Hilton Hotel
Remember Watson? It’s the artificially intelligent computer from IBM that can beat Jeopardy champions and is used in cancer-related research. Well, it turns out the computer is …
Google’s abused Atlas robot vows to take revenge in horror remix video
We’ve seen not just one but two different videos recently that show off Google’s spectacular robots. The company has gone a long way in improving the …
Watch Google’s robot dog play with a real dog
To be perfectly frank, we have very mixed emotions about the video you’re about to watch. Is this how it begins? The robots trick us …
Google robot opens doors, picks itself up after getting knocked over in crazy video
Boston Dynamics, a robotics company that Google bought back in 2013, has routinely wowed the world by releasing videos of robots that are growing ever …
Guy shows how to make a toy robot out of a broken Android phone
Even people who are talented at making repairs sometimes break things so bad that they’re impossible to fix. The man who runs the YouTube account ElectroBOOM recently …
Netflix’s CEO predicts genetically modified humans will fight AI robots in battle for Earth
One of the predictions offered recently by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings sounds like the plot of a sci-fi TV series that you’d want to binge watch on …
Incredible video shows ATLAS robot doing household chores with ease
The Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) didn’t let their second place finish at the DARPA Robotics Challenge slow them down in the …
Disney’s gravity-defying rolling robot can drive vertically up walls
Most four-wheeled robots would probably be stopped in their tracks by a high vertical obstacle like a wall, but that’s not the case for a recent …
