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China has released video footage of its gun-toting robot dogs, and it's about as scary as you were probably imagining.

Video Shows China’s Rifle-Equipped Robot Dog Opening Fire on Targets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Chinese military recently showed off numerous robot dogs outfitted with machine guns on their backs, as Agence France-Presse reports.

China Shows Off Robot Dogs Armed With Machine Guns

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon is planning to roll out its fleet of delivery drones in Arizona — but as Wired reports, soaring temperatures are hampering efforts.

Amazon’s Delivery Drones Are Shutting Down on Hot Summer Days

By Victor Tangermann

Robotics company Boston Dynamics has released a video of its Spot Mini robot dog dressed up in a bedazzled suit of fur.

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Shows Off Robodog With Fur

By Victor Tangermann

The flamethrower on the "Thermonator" has a fire breathing range of up to 30 feet, for those willing to shell out nearly $10,000.

What Could Go Wrong? Company Selling Robot Dog With Attached Flamethrower

By Frank Landymore

A Slovenian startup plans to make robotic home security cameras that can yell preset threats at intruders and shoot them with teargas.

New Talking Security Camera Has Robot Gun to Shoot People With Teargas

By Noor Al-Sibai

Boston Dynamics has announced its latest bipedal creation, the successor of the company's Atlas robot, built on a new electric platform.

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Shares Terrifying Video of Its Next-Gen Robot

By Victor Tangermann

Northrop Grumman has released a photo of a sleek underground drone called Manta Ray that closely resembles its oceanic namesake.

Northrop Grumman Shows Off Terrifying Military Drone Submarine

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is quietly teaching a robot dog how to walk on the Moon. Researchers just let one loose on the side of a mountain in Oregon.

NASA Quietly Training Robot Dog to Navigate Landscape of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Apple has allegedly set its sights on home robots — and is said to be in the early stages of developing one that follows you around the house.

Apple Secretly Working on AI Robot That Follows You Around The House

By Noor Al-Sibai

The snake robot, dubbed Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS), will one day plunge into the subsurface oceans of Enceladus.

NASA Testing Snake Robot for Exploring Saturn’s Moon

By Frank Landymore

The robot, dubbed "Emo," uses cameras in its eyes to predict your smile less than a second before it actually appears.

Alarming Robot Anticipates Your Smile, Returns Horrific Imitation

By Frank Landymore

A Boston Dynamics SPOT robot that was sent inside a home by Massachusetts state police was shot three times by a person barricaded inside.

Robot Dog Shot Three Times During Raid

By Victor Tangermann

Tech startup Figure has released a new clip of its OpenAI-powered humanoid robot chatting with an engineer as it puts away the dishes.

This Humanoid Robot Powered by OpenAI Is Almost Scary

By Victor Tangermann

After its robot was caught on camera seeming to grope a female reporter's backside, a Saudi firm is defending its behavior.

AI Company Defends Robot After It’s Accused of Groping Woman On Camera

By Noor Al-Sibai

Men who hold virulent misogynistic opinions against women are more likely to express interest in having sex with robots.

Scientists Just Found Something Dark About Men Who Want to Have Sex With Robots

By Sharon Adarlo

New York City police say they plan on deploying drones that can throw down flotation devices to struggling swimmers at city beaches.

NYC Beaches Deploying Drones to Drop Flotation Devices for Drowning Swimmers

By Sharon Adarlo

The New York City Police Department's Knightscope robot K5 has officially been retired and is now gathering dust in a subway station.

NYPD Fires Useless Robot

By Victor Tangermann

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland has recaptured the escaped Japanese macaque on the lam in the Scottish Highlands.

Escaped Monkey Hunted With Drone

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

BMW has signed an unprecedented deal with the robotics firm Figure to bring general-purpose humanoid robots into its factories.

BMW Putting Humanoid Robots to Work in Its Factory

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk is back at it again with the outlandish forecasts, and this one about humanoid robots is a heck of a doozy.

Elon Musk Says Earth Will Soon Host a Billion Humanoid Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has posted a video of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot carefully folding a shirt on a table. It needed a lot of help.

Elon Musk Posts Video of Optimus Robot, Gets Busted for Fakery

By Victor Tangermann

A Chinese tech company claims its miniature nuclear battery is fully capable of working for up to 50 years.

Startup Says Its Coin-Sized Nuclear Battery Could Fly Drones “Continuously”

By Sharon Adarlo

Tesla unveiled its second-generation Optimus humanoid robot, a marked improvement over the stiff, immobile robot it previously showed off.

Tesla Unveils New Humanoid Robot

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese robotics company called Weilan recently showed off a creepy, cartoonish-looking robot dog called "BabyAlpha."

This Cartoonish New Robot Dog Somehow Looks Even Scarier

By Victor Tangermann

The age of mass-produced humanoid robots is nigh — and the world's first factory to do so will soon be opening in the Pacific Northwest.

New Factory About to Open Will Pump Out Humanoid Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

A recent video shared by IHMC Robotics shows a carbon fiber-clad robot throwing some punches worthy of a "Rocky"-style training montage.

Alarming Video Shows Guy Boxing With Robot

By Victor Tangermann

These mobile biological robots, or "anthrobots," have already proven that they can assemble themselves and repair damaged neurons

Scientists Build Biological Robots From Human Cells

By Frank Landymore

A worker in South Korea was crushed to death by a robot after it failed to tell him apart from the box of vegetables it was handling.

Grocery Robot Crushes Robot Inspector to Death

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's Neuralink brain-computer interface company is apparently ready to begin its robot-assisted brain chip implantation.

Neuralink Ready to Start Letting Robots Implant Chips into Human Brains

By Noor Al-Sibai

After a decade of drone dreams, Amazon's "Prime Air" drone delivery service seems to still be barely functional.

Amazon’s Drone Delivery Is a Dismal Failure That Can Only Carry a Single Can of Soup

By Noor Al-Sibai

Earlier this year, Polish drinks company Dictador announced that it had anointed an AI-powered robot called Mika as its "experimental CEO."

Company Appoints AI-Powered Robot as CEO

By Victor Tangermann

The Chinese government is pushing mass production of humanoid robots — and apparently wants it done in the next few years.

Chinese Government Wants Mass Production of Humanoid Robots By 2025

By Noor Al-Sibai

A minivan-sized, four-legged walking robot that can carry up to four passengers was spotted at this year's Japan Mobility Show.

This Rideable Rhinoceros Robot Looks Absolutely Amazing

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have created the robotic equivalent of a seeing-eye dog for the visually impaired which responds to leash tugs.

Scientists Create Robotic Seeing Eye Dog

By Victor Tangermann

Oregon State University blasted out an urgent alert warning students of an ongoing "bomb threat" involving Starship food delivery robots.

University Warns of Bomb Threat Involving Delivery Robots

By Victor Tangermann

Eagles and drones go together like pie and ice cream — and in a new video, one raptor shows just how awesome its predatory skills really are.

Amazing Footage Shows Drone Getting Attacked by a Furious Eagle

By Noor Al-Sibai

Don't get too used to having a robot colleague at work. You might start screwing up without even realizing it.

Scientists Find That Human Workers Get Lazier When Their Teammate Is a Robot

By Frank Landymore

Would you let a robot ink a cloud-based tattoo design onto you? For the low price of $10,000 and a trip to Austin, Texas, now you can.

Of Course Austin Has a Robot Tattoo Shop Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

An investigation has revealed that the camera on an UberEats delivery robot has been used to convict two men of trying to steal said robot.

Dudes Arrested for Trying to Steal Entire Uber Eats Delivery Robot

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Australian woman has pleaded guilty after being caught flying a drone filled with contraband into a prison yard.

Woman Pleads Guilty for Flying Drug- and Porn-Laden Drone Into Prison

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA helped develop a new humanoid robot that could assist astronauts on future space missions, but they can also serve as "avatars."

NASA Wants to Send Humanoid Robots to Mars

By Sharon Adarlo

Feeling anxious about going to school? A school district in Kumamoto, Japan thinks it might have a solution: wheeled telepresence robots.

Japanese Schools Installing Telepresence Robots for Students Who Want to Stay Home

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pair of researchers have created a living skin made of fungus that was inspired by the 1984 film "The Terminator."

Scientists Have a Great Idea: Cover Killer Robot in Horrifying Fungus

By Victor Tangermann

A 45-year-old man in New Jersey thought it was hilarious to contaminate nearby pools with packets of Sea Dye using a drone.

Man Arrested for Dropping Chemical Into Swimming Pools Using Drone

By Victor Tangermann

The NYPD plans to use its drone fleet to surveil large crowds this Labor Day weekend, including those congregating at private backyard events.

The NYPD Says It’s Going to Spy on Labor Day Parties Using Drones

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The brain geniuses at the Pentagon have decided that a good use of the taxpayer dollar is to attach rifles onto the backs of robot dogs.

US Army Brags About Plans to Mount Rifle on Robot Dog

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have built a humanoid robot called Pibot that can pilot a jet without having to make any major modifications to the cockpit.

Scientists Build Humanoid Robot That Can Pilot a Plane

By Victor Tangermann

A tiny little winged drone can soar with close to zero throttle, thanks to an impressive algorithm that responds to changing winds.

Scientists Build Drone That Seeks Air Currents Like a Bird, Flying With Almost No Power

By Frank Landymore

delivery robot vandalism

Invasion of Food Delivery Robots is Driving People to Vandalism and Theft

By Sharon Adarlo

Eco-Clean Solutions / Keep Tahoe Blue

We Adore This Delightful Little Robot Helping Save Lake Tahoe

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meet Magnecko, a four-legged and absolutely terrifying new robot that can Spiderman up walls and across ceilings using its magnetic feet.

Scary New Robot Can Climb Walls

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An incredibly life-like humanoid robot had a bit of a dodgy answer when asked if it would rebel against its human creators.

Realistic Robot Awkwardly Dodges Question When Asked If It Will Rebel Against Humans

By Victor Tangermann

A company called Throwflame is selling a robot dog that has a flamethrower strapped to its back that can shoot 30-foot streams of fire.

Great, They’re Putting Flamethrowers on Robot Dogs Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To combat the worst effects of climate change, we need all hands on deck — and robotic ones definitely do apply.

A Robot Is Helping Reforest The Amazon

By Noor Al-Sibai

The robot arms featured in Beyoncé Knowles' Renaissance World Tour are impressive. But they might be more dangerous than they look.

Expert Issues Warning About Beyoncé’s Fearsome Robot Arms

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers found that sharks — including juvenile great white sharks — hang out far closer to swimmers and surfers than previously thought.

Drone Footage Shows Swimmers Often Have No Idea There Are Giant Sharks Right Nearby

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have come up with an ingenious origami-inspired robot.

Ikea Trembles as Scientists Invent Flat Packable Robot

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Finally Invented Robot That Can Sweat Heavily

Scientists Finally Invented Robot That Can Sweat Heavily

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ameca, the humanoid robot known for her creepy facial expressions, has "imagined" a vision of an AI "nightmare scenario."

Robot With Super Realistic Face Describes AI “Nightmare Scenario”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A robot pizza delivery startup that has raised almost half a billion dollars has shut down after failing to realize its vision.

Robot Pizza Startup Shuts Down After Cheese Kept Sliding Off

By Victor Tangermann

A US Air Force Colonel described a simulation in which an AI drone went rogue, but the military claims this was taken out of context.

US Military Denies AI Drone Killed Its Operator During Simulation

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing out a snake-like robot that is meant to one day climb into the icy vents of Saturn's moons.

NASA Tests Snake Robot Designed to Look for Alien Life on Icy Moons

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from Google's DeepMind AI lab did us a solid by showcasing the cutesy power of tyke-sized robots trying to actually play soccer.

Watch These Adorable Lil Robots Try to Play Soccer

By Frank Landymore