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A video that has gone viral on social media shows a humanoid robot's face glancing around the room with a quizzical expression.

Alarming New Video Shows Robot Making Incredibly Realistic Facial Expressions

By Victor Tangermann

Two flying cars collided with each other during an airshow rehearsal in Changchun, a city in northeastern China.

Dark Smoke Billows After Horrific Collision Between Flying Cars

By Victor Tangermann

A new viral video shows a kickboxing and seemingly unstoppable humanoid robot shrugging off a flying dropkick from a human being.

Unstoppable Martial Arts Robot Can Take a Direct Dropkick Without Falling Down

By Victor Tangermann

Humanoid robot startups have bragged they'll ship or test thousands of robots by the year's end. So where are they?

When You Read the Fine Print, Humanoid Robots Are Going Absolutely Nowhere

By Frank Landymore

First theorized in 1963 by a Polish SciFi author, smart dust is now a real life technology with major implications.

Scientists Working on “Smart Dust” That Can Spy on a Room While Drifting Throught the Air

Tesla has a long way to go until it can successfully have AI-powered bipedal robots replace human jobs, according to a new video.

Elon Musk’s New Optimus Robot Demo Is So Painful It Will Make You Wince

By Victor Tangermann

Several schools in Florida will be fitted with dozens of armed drones, which can supposedly confront a shooter within fifteen seconds.

Florida Schools Deploying Armed Drones to Battle School Shooters

By Frank Landymore

At least six news sites in the UK and US have run a pretty obvious fake news story about "pregnancy robots" — and they're still live.

Mainstream Publications Are Getting Suckered by a Ridiculous Fake News Story About a “Pregnancy Robot”

By Noor Al-Sibai

In the middle of a show, Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst provoked and then knocked out of the air a drone that dared to get too close.

Furious Fred Durst Knocks Drone Out of Air During Live Concert

By Noor Al-Sibai

An event in Beijing drew hundreds of competitors from around the world in what's being described as the first ever Robot Olympics.

Hundreds of Robots Competed in the World’s First Robot Olympics. The Results Were Unintentionally Hilarious

As a new robot drummer video shows, talent runs the gamut in robots about as much as it does for human musicians.

Scientists Taught a Robot to Play the Drums and He Is Shockingly Horrible at It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Lithuania recently announced a civil defense program meant to train some 7,000 children in the fine art of drone warfare.

This Country Is Teaching Children How to Build and Operate Deadly Drones

The AI robotics firm Figure released an impressive video of its humanoid robot, Figure 02, autonomously folding laundry.

Wild Video Shows Humanoid Robot Effortlessly Folding Laundry

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a San Francisco, four humanoid robots make up a machine-based fight club known as REK, which uses trains its bots as prize fighters.

Humanoid Robots Are Beating Each Other to Pulp in an Underground Fight Club

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists apparently underestimated the aggression of tiny male fiddler crabs when they deployed a friendly robot version in their territory.

Robot Crab Meets Terrible Fate When Its True Nature Is Discovered by Real Crabs

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Chinese state broadcasting group recently released footage of its newly developed "robot wolves" in simulated combat drills.

China Shows Off Armed Attack Robots