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Researchers have programmed a Unitree G1 humanoid robot to play basketball, almost perfectly mimicking the skills of a human athlete.

This Video of a Robot Playing Basketball Is EXTREMELY Impressive

By Victor Tangermann

A former safety engineer at leading robotics firm Figure also alleges the robot left a gash in a stainless steel door.

Whistleblower Says He Was Fired for Warning Execs That New Robot Could Crush Human Skull

By Frank Landymore

British military tested out a powerful laser that can take down high-speed drones which have become widely available in the battlefield.

British Military Attacks Drones With Huge Laser

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA has an audacious plan to save a space telescope by using a rocket launched midair from a former passenger airliner.

Bonkers NASA Mission Next Year Will Drop Rocket Out of Plane, Blast Off From There

By Sharon Adarlo

A YouTuber's attempt to create an animatronic Aristotle-bot went slightly off the rails when it called for the elimination of humanity.

Terrifying-Looking Robot Powers Up, Immediately Declares Humanity Is a “Resource” to Be “Manipulated or Eliminated”

Chinese company XPeng showed off a robot with distinctly female anatomy, including pronounced breasts and hips, sparking a discussion.

Robotics Company Explains Why Its Terminator-Style Robot Features Prominent Bazongas

By Victor Tangermann

XPeng's new "Iron" robot is a horrifying abomination without its skin, but that doesn't mean it's not an impressive piece of machinery.

This Company’s Terminator-Style Robot Is Low-Key Terrifying

Russia unveiled a humanoid robot, dubbed AIdol, during a flashy showcase in Moscow — only for it to fall on its face.

Russia’s First Humanoid Robot Just Failed So Spectacularly During It’s Debut That We’re Suspicious the Entire Thing Was an Elaborate Joke

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered an idea to curtail crime during his latest meeting with the board of directors: robots that stalk criminals.

Elon Says His Robot Will Follow Criminals Around to Make Sure They Never Offend Again

Electric vehicle company XPeng has released a video of its "Iron" robot without skin, and the results are pretty disturbing.

Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator

Chinese company Unitree is unleashing robotic dogs to fight fires in all kinds of real-world disaster scenarios.

Chinese Firefighters Using Robot Dogs With Huge Hoses Attached

Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World

By Victor Tangermann

Danish Hussain recently suggested that Tesla's Optimus robot will be interfacing with Neuralink brain-implant devices.

Neuralink Head of Surgery Says Robot-Human Interface Happening “Very Soon”

Every day, dozens of human "data collectors" repeat each activity hundreds of times to train Tesla's Optimus robots.

Secret Elon Musk Lab Is Collecting Data on Every Human Activity to Train Robots

By Frank Landymore

A viral clip shows a Unitree G1 robot trying to cook, causing destruction inside a home -- and wearing a maid outfit, for some reason.

Disastrous Video Shows Robot Trying to Cook, Destroying Interior of House

Owners of the NEO butler-bot from 1X will have to schedule a time for remote operators to plug in and complete tasks.

$20,000 Robot Servant Comes With a Major Catch

AI-powered dinosaurs are coming, pumped out by robotics companies looking to shave off a piece of the edu-tainment market.

China Unleashing AI-Powered Robot Dinosaurs

The self-driving squad car is rolling out as part of a year-long trial in coordination with the non-profit Policing Lab.

Florida Unleashes Autonomous Police Cruisers That Deploy Thermal Imaging Drones

Leaked documents reveal how Amazon plans to stop hiring humans so its workforce of robots can replace their jobs.

Secret Plans Reveal Amazon Plot to Replace 600,000 Workers With Robot Army

By Frank Landymore

During Wednesday's Tesla earnings call, CEO Elon Musk made some strangely suspicious remarks about securing control over his "robot army."

Elon Musk Makes Suspicious Remarks About His Robot Army

By Victor Tangermann

Western executives warn that China's heavily roboticized manufacturing industry could quickly leave the West behind.

Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China

By Victor Tangermann

A dazzling video shows a quadcopter drone gently shooing unwanted critters away from poultry farms with a laser light show.

Japanese Farmers Send Out Automated Laser Drones to Defend Chickens

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images

Amazon Drones Kamikaze Into Construction Equipment, Burst Into Flames

By Frank Landymore

A video of one of Waymo's autonomous ride-hailing vehicles driving over the carefully groomed lawn of a golf course has gone viral.

Waymo Says There’s a Perfect Reasonable Explanation for Its Car Roaming a Golf Course

By Victor Tangermann

A viral video shows a delivery robot in Los Angeles brake checking and cutting off a man with cerebral palsy using a mobility scooter.

Delivery Robot Torments Disabled Man

By Frank Landymore

A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.

New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off

By Victor Tangermann

Recent DARPA robots include sea-based microdrones, cockroach-style surveillance bots, and even cyborg insects.

DARPA Going Hard on Insect-Sized Spy Robots

A video showing a robotics engineer violently yanking a humanoid robot around by a chain wrapped around its neck is making its rounds online.

Disturbing Video Shows Man Jerking Robot Around by Chain Around Its Neck

By Victor Tangermann

Named Robin the Robot, the chirpy AI-powered bot is designed to behave and sound like a seven-year-old girl.

Hospitals Deploying Robot Programmed to Act Like Child to Comfort Pediatric Patients

By Frank Landymore

Called the "first fully autonomous humanoid-operate store," the kiosk chain is said to be rapidly expanding to 100 locations.

China Opens Bodega Entirely Run by Robot

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

Chinese robot maker Unitree has shown off its next quadripedal robot dog, which is strong enough to hold a 220-pound adult on its back.

Wild New Robot Dog Is So Strong You Can Ride It Like a Four-Legged Skateboard

By Victor Tangermann

Two pint-sized robots were seen boxing at an AI conference in Shanghai, and we've gotta say, they're pretty cool.

We Must Admit That This Video of Two Small Robots Punching Each Other With Boxing Gloves Is Pretty Awesome

By Noor Al-Sibai

In an impressive new demo, humanoid robot company Figure founder Brett Adcock showed off a robot effortlessly loading a washing machine.

Wild Video Shows Humanoid Robot Loading a Washing Machine Pretty Well

By Victor Tangermann

It turns out that a video of a pair of robot arms folding laundry is CGI — but the creator insists there's a real prototype.

Viral Video of Robot Arms Folding Laundry Confirmed to Be CGI

By Frank Landymore

During a Chinese music festival, a humanoid robot named "Adam" grooved on the keytar while semi-disguised in a loose-fitting hoodie.

Band Appears on Stage With Poorly-Disguised Robot Playing the Keytar

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers have designed a robot module that "consume" other robots to sustain itself and build bigger robots.

Scientists Create Prototype of Robot Designed to Cannibalize Parts of Other Robots and Build Them Into Itself

By Frank Landymore

This robot's fun time on the dance floor quickly detoured into being a total, unmitigated catastrophe that it'll live with forever.

Robot Tries to Bust Dance Moves, Flames Out in Epic Disaster

By Frank Landymore

Detroit has become a hotbed for robot startups whose machines can mow lawns, remove snow, and pick up trash on city beaches.

Detroit’s Using Robots to Pick Up Garbage, Mow Grass, Clear Snow, and Much More

By Sharon Adarlo

Tesla is already having trouble meeting even the modest 2025 goals it set for producing its Optimus humanoid robots.

Tesla’s Optimus Robots Have Reportedly Run Into Severe Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese company UBTECH recently showed off its bipedal Walker S2 robot contorting its arms to hot swap one of its battery packs.

Wild Video Shows Robot Changing Its Own Battery

By Victor Tangermann

A video making the rounds on social media shows a humanoid robot flailing its arms and legs, seemingly trying to break free of a harness.

Alarming Video Shows Experimental Fighting Robot Thrashing Uncontrollably

By Victor Tangermann

In the few weeks since being unveiled, Jake, a slang-spewing "rizzbot," has moved to West Hollywood and come out as queer.

Jake the Rizzbot Moves to California, Comes Out as Gay

By Noor Al-Sibai

The type of advanced AI that Isaac Asimov imagined in fiction is finally here. And it's flunking his Three Laws of Robotics.

Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics

By Victor Tangermann, Jon Christian

Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology turned innocent bees into cyborgs that can be controlled via an insect brain controller.

Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions

By Victor Tangermann

A cowboy hat-toting bipedal robot, dubbed "Jake the Rizzbot," is wandering the streets of Austin, Texas, flinging compliments.

Community Confused by “Rizzbot” Walking Around With Cowboy Hat and Chain, Complimenting Their Outfits in Gen Alpha Slang

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon will soon have as many robots as it does humans plugging away at its warehouses, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Robots Are About to Outnumber Humans At Amazon Warehouses

By Frank Landymore

Researchers at China's top military R&D academy just showed off a mosquito-sized nanobot measuring just 1.3 cm in size.

Chinese Military Shows Off Fly-Sized Drones for Covert Ops

Humanoid robotics company Figure showed off its Figure 02 robot using a sophisticated visual language system to sort packages.

Watching This Humanoid Robot Sort Packages Is Quite Something

By Victor Tangermann