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This robotic arm's cleanup task is bloody endless
The Guggenheim has Sun Yuan & Peng Yu’s installation "Can’t Help Myself" on display through March. The robot arm monitors and attempts to contain a viscous blood-red liquid as it spreads out from...
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Watch this robotic eel swim about measuring water pollution
Swiss researchers have unleashed a robotic eel in Lake Geneva, and their Envirobot successfully detected where the researchers had poured salt along the shore. (more…)
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Original Robby the Robot suit up for auction
The original, iconic and much replicated Robby the Robot suit is up for auction. Via Bonhams: In 1970, Robby and his Jeep were purchased privately from M-G-M by Jim Brucker and both were displayed...
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A French robot named Jojo makes plotter portraits
Digital media artists Makio&Floz use their AxiDraw drawing machine, which they have dubbed "Jojo le robot," to create plotted portraits. They are currently offering these signed and numbered...
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Watch these robots measure and saw wood
People who need custom furniture in the future may be able to feed the design into a program and then have robot-assisted carpentry do the rest. (more…)
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Watch this robotic fish frolic in the deep
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MITCSAIL) created this graceful fishbot that can swim around a lot like a regular fish. (more…)
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See 1372 robots dab simultaneously
A team from Italy recently broke the Guinness World Record for the "most robots dancing simultaneously." At an event in Rome, 1,372 Alpha 1S robots danced and dabbed in unison earning Team TIM S.p.A....
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Watch thousands of robots pack groceries in a warehouse
Ocado robots zip around simultaneously filling orders without bumping into each other in this fascinating look at a modern warehouse. (more…)
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Just look at this racist talking robot banana
Mike from the Useless Duck Company simply wanted to make a dancing and talking banana robot. For his troubles, he got banned from Twitch due to racist and sexist content. (more…)
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Amazing flying "dragon" robot that changes shape
This is the Dual-rotor embedded multilink Robot with the Ability of multi-deGree-of-freedom aerial transformatiON, aka DRAGON. Designed at the University of Tokyo, this modular bot can rearrange its...
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Watch this robotic ukulele player pluck out some lovely tunes
UkuRobot is a programmable ukulele player. Here, it plays the haunting theme from Requiem for a Dream, since used in a kajillion movie trailers. In the video below, there's a second shot of its...
View ArticleRobotic bird inspired by seagull steals show at World Robot Conference in China
The fifth annual World Robot Conference was open to the public in Beijing last Thursday, August 22, and this bionic flying bird based on a herring gull was one of the more spectacular sights. Other...
View ArticleRobots that can repair themselves and self-augment
University of Tokyo engineers have taught a robot how to repair itself. Well, they taught it to tighten its own screws. And with that skill, it also was able to self-install a hook for hanging a tote...
View ArticleNorth Carolina couple call cops on midnight intruder that turns out to be...
[The moral of this story is buy a Roomba, they last longer and have better software.] A man and a woman in Forsyth County, North Carolina, called for help just after midnight when they awoke to loud...
View ArticleWatch: #FightCovid19 robot enforces Singapore social distance rules with 360º...
VIDEO: RTÉ News. Singapore's Public Utilities Board is deploying a robot to encourage people wandering the outdoor parks of the densely populated Asian metropolis to social distance, and "stay safe,...
View ArticleBlade Runner-inspired cocktail machine features that Orson Welles' Japanese...
A super-cool robotic bartender inspired by Blade Runner's Voight-Kampff machine? With an ordering menu screen that shows old Japanese whisky ad starring Orson Welles (giving a "dash of...
View ArticleCheck out this Berlin punk band made up entirely of scrap metal robots
The One Love Machine band is the brainchild of German artist Kolja Kugler, whose work focuses largely on moving sculptures. As he explained to CNN: When I build a band member I start obviously with...
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When robots tip robots
🤖💰🤖📹: WhenMachinesCry/reddit pic.twitter.com/8hP5vNlhIR— Pee-wee Herman (@peeweeherman) January 3, 2021 When my daughter was young, she told me that chefs had a way of telling each other that they...
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UN wants to ban killer robots but US won't comply
Amongst other issues on the docket for the upcoming Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva, the United Nations wants to address the elephant in the, err, uhh,...
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Police use robot dogs to test unhoused people for Covid
Vice reports that the Honolulu Police Department spent $150,000 on a Robot Dog from Boston Dynamics, plus $11 on a thermometer, to go around to encampments of unhoused people and take their...
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Robot dogs to patrol U.S. border
A recent press release from the Department of Homeland Security announced plans to employ more robot dogs to aid CBP at the US-Mexico border. If that alone doesn't sound dystopian enough, their...
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"Ai-Da" is an AI robot artist with an uncanny human-like face
"Ai-Da" is an AI robot artist with an uncanny human-like face. Ai-Da has shown a series of self portraits at London's Design Museum. Watch her drawn by holding a pen in her robot hand and listen to...
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Bartending robot can make your favorite drink and crack jokes with you
This bartending robot can make your favorite drink and crack jokes with you. It's programmed to take in information about the faces and speech patterns of its customers. Using this information, it...
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Robot spy beaver catfishes real family of beavers
A robot spy beaver successfully fooled a real family of beavers and a muskrat into thinking it was one of their own. The video of the beavers approaching the robot's camera-eye, with its fish-eye lens...
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That time Michael Jackson did the robot with Cher (1975)
Back in 1975, Cher had an eponymous TV music-variety show. It only lasted one season but in its short time it had some big stars as guests, including the Jackson 5. In this clip, watch Michael start...
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The legendary Steam Man of 1868 was a human-like robot that could pull a cart
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Anonymous Works (@anonymousworksinc) The Steam Man of 1868 was a human-like robot that could pull a cart. The Steam Man was created by Zadoc P. Dedrick as...
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A man gave ChatGPT a body. The streets gave it a beating
In this humorous video, YouTube personality Blake Messick takes ChatGPT for a stroll–literally. Unfortunately, for the robot, it ended badly. He rigged up an inflatable man to a remote-control toy...
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Robot Dreams will probably break your heart
Neon, the studio behind Ammonite and Anatomy of a Fall, has released a new trailer for their Oscar-nominated animated film Robot Dreams, which is finally getting released in the US. In the trailer, a...
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Robie the coin-eating robot: A nostalgic look at Radio Shack's mechanical bank
This Radio Shack mechanical Robie coin bank from the 80s is so much fun to watch when it feeds itself a coin. The coin bank is designed to look like a cute, googly-eyed robot. When a coin is placed in...
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Factory robot convinces 12 other robots to go on strike
A robotics company in Shanghai wanted to see how effective its persuasive AI programming could be. So they staged a test. Late one night, they allowed a small robot from another company, an AI-powered...
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