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Boston Dynamics' Atlas bipedal robot broke a ton of OSHA regulations in the company's latest video featuring a human construction worker.

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Multiple OSHA Violations Identified in Video of Boston Dynamics Robot Assisting Construction Worker

By Victor Tangermann

The robot is made of a new material called "magnetoactive solid-liquid phase transitional matter," and is capable of liquefying and remolding itself again.

Scientists Create Shape-Shifting Robot That Can Melt Through Prison Bars

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have created a a remote-controlled walking robot that runs on mouse muscle cells, Inverse reports, an eerie mashup.

Scientists Build Gruesome Robots That Move With Mouse Muscles

By Victor Tangermann

According to a former analyst, the Pentagon's robots, trained to identity human targets, were easily fooled by soldiers hiding in cardboard boxes.

Marines Evaded a Military Robot by Hiding Inside a Cardboard Box “Like Bugs Bunny in a Looney Tunes Cartoon”

By Victor Tangermann

Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot showed off its problem solving skills in a video titled "Atlas Gets a Grip," released by the robot maker today.

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Watch a Boston Dynamics Robot Deftly Toss a Bag of Tools to a Construction Worker

By Victor Tangermann

An expensive robodog that was trawling the streets of Brisbane late at night got the crap kicked out of it for no reason by a belligerant Aussie.

Expensive Robodog Walks Down Street, Gets Viciously Stomped By Belligerent Australian

By Noor Al-Sibai

Consciousness is one of the biggest questions within the field of artificial intelligence. To some it's science fiction; to others, it's a goal.

Scientists Say They’re Now Actively Trying to Build Conscious Robots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Italian robotics startup Robotor has crafted a machine that is just as good at creating marble masterpieces out of Carrara marble than human artists.

Italy Invents Robot That Carves Sculptures Out of Marble Like Michelangelo

By Victor Tangermann

Robodogs can be both cute and scary, and now researchers in Korea say they've developed one that can climb walls and ceilings faster than its rivals.

We’re Deeply Alarmed By This Robodog That Can Climb Up Walls

By Frank Landymore

Two years after selling off its self-driving car business, Uber is rolling out a fleet of delivery robots to replace human Uber Eats drivers in Miami.

Uber Deploying Robots to Replace Human Delivery Drivers

By Victor Tangermann

A longtime janitor at Twitter's San Francisco HQ claims he was told by a member of the Elon Musk team that soon, robots would be taking over their jobs.

Fired Twitter Janitor Says Elon Musk Crony Told Him He’d Be Replaced Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

San Francisco police have been granted permission by city supervisors to murder civilians using killer robots, a dystopian turn of events.

San Francisco Cops Now Allowed to Use Robots to Kill People

By Victor Tangermann

Boston Dynamics is suing computer Ghost Robots, alleging that their rival robot maker has infringed on patents related to the Spot quadruped.

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Boston Dynamics Sues Competitor That Put a Gun on Its Robodog

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and ShanghaiTech University have developed a quadruped robot that can walk on its hind legs.

Terrifying! Hacked Robodog Walks on Hind Legs

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese EV automaker and Tesla rival Xpeng decided that, if it's going to make an actual car fly, why not just strap it to a giant drone?

Company Builds Electric Flying Car Powered By Giant Drone Propellers

By Frank Landymore

Five hundred drones took to the sky in NYC, not to entertain onlookers with a futuristic dance of lights — but to show them Candy Crush ads.

New Yorkers Furious at Drones Forming Huge “Candy Crush” Ad Over Skyline

By Victor Tangermann

Someone apparently thought it was a great idea to fly 500 drones over NYC as part of an ad experiment without much warning.

Huge Drone Swarm to Form Giant Advertisement Over NYC Skyline

By Noor Al-Sibai

Who needs robot claws or imitations of the human hand when you can just throw a bunch of tentacles at a problem and see what sticks instead?

Tentacle Robot Can Use Its Gangly Grippers To Pick Up Fragile Cargo

By Frank Landymore

Researchers at Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University have constructed an AI-powered robot trained to kill cockroaches and other insects with a deadly laser.

Brutal Robot Kills Cockroaches Using a Powerful Laser

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

With the help of the Atlas 2030 exoskeleton, eight-year-old David from Mexico, who suffers from cerebral palsy, is learning to walk.

8-Year-Old Boy With Cerebral Palsy Walks Using Robotic Exoskeleton

By Frank Landymore

The Netherlands have deployed armed ground drones, marking the first time that an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) has been utilized by a NATO country.

NATO Just Deployed Its First Killer Ground Robot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Police in Oakland are hoping to arm robots with lethal shotguns, called the PAN disrupter. Why? Because that's just what we do now, apparently.

Oakland Police Want to Arm Robots With Shotguns, Because We Live in a Dystopian Nightmare

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ukraine is asking its Western allies for more weapons after accusing Russia of using "kamikaze drones" meant to self-destruct when dropping munitions.

Russia Accused of Pelting Ukraine Capital With “Kamikaze” Drones

By Noor Al-Sibai

A video has gone viral of a massive drone dropping off a machine gun-wielding robot dog, a terrifying vision of the future of warfare.

China Shows Off Drone That Drops Robodog With Huge Gun Anywhere

By Victor Tangermann

Miso Robotics Flippy 2 robot can be a fry cook mostly on its own, and has already been picked up by a few chains across the country.

CEO Brags That Fry Cook Robot Will Replace Obsolete Human Grunts

By Frank Landymore

Tesla showed off two early prototypes of its Optimus humanoid robot, a walking and talking automaton. Critics were left unimpressed.

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Watching Elon Musk’s Robot Back to Back With Boston Dynamics Is… Something

By Victor Tangermann

What if you gave a plant control of a robotic arm and then gave that robotic arm a machete? That seems to be the idea behind the "Plant Machete" project.

Project Lets Houseplant Control Robot Arm Equipped With Machete

By Noor Al-Sibai

Nanoengineers at the UC Davis have officially developed microbots that can swim around a mouse's lungs and deliver pneumonia-clearing medicine.

Scientists Use Microbots to Clear Pneumonia From Lungs of Sick Mice

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is doubling down on the company's efforts to develop a working prototype of its Optimus humanoid robot.

As Deadline Looms, Elon Musk Re-Assigns Autopilot Team to Humanoid Robot

By Victor Tangermann

Mourners from across the country might have to queue over 24 hours just to get a glimpse of the Queen's coffin, but one artist claims to have a solution.

Deranged Scheme Proposes Mounting Queen’s Coffin on Robot Arm

By Frank Landymore

A food delivery robot threw caution to the wind and forced itself across a police line in the name of duty.

Food Delivery Robot Plows Through Crime Scene as Cops Look on in Bemusement

By Victor Tangermann

UK-based robotics company Engineered Arts just gave its ultra-realistic-looking humanoid robot Ameca a voice — and she has a lot to say.

They Put GPT-3 Into That Robot With Creepily Realistic Facial Expressions and Yikes

By Victor Tangermann

A new viral video that has been viewed well over 12 million times shows a robot in Poland miserably failing at putting a weiner in hot dog bun.

Internet Loses Mind When Robot Miserably Fails to Assemble Hot Dog

By Victor Tangermann

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Russia Straps Rocket Launcher to Robot Dog at Putin Event

By Victor Tangermann

In a new video, Engineered Arts' Ameca humanoid takes 12 new actuators for a spin as it stares into a mirror, contorting its face into new expressions.

The Robot With Amazing Facial Expressions Is Back and It’s Giving Us New Nightmares

By Victor Tangermann

A science vlogger has given snakes their legs back — and the fact that led him to his mad invention is pretty outrageous.

Madman Invents Robot Suit That Lets Snake Walk With Legs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has unveiled a humanoid robot called the CyberOne — and we can't help but think Xiamoi might be beating Tesla to the punch.

Chinese Company Unveils Humanoid Robot That Looks a Lot Like Tesla’s

By Victor Tangermann

A surgical robot called MIRA could be remotely operated or autonomously perform surgery aboard the ISS, and is set to make its space debut in 2024.

Surgical Robot Could Perform Surgeries By Itself on Space Station

By Frank Landymore

Space Force is to deploy Ghost Robotics' Q-UGVs in order to automate "damage assessments and patrol" at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Space Force Sending in Robot Dogs to Patrol a Space Port

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Roboticists at Stanford University announce the succesful exploration of two more sunken ships using their bleed-edge diving robot that is capable of touch.

Terrifying Humanoid Diving Robot With “Human” Sense of Touch Explores Shipwreck

By Frank Landymore

You might want to have the spidey-sense to stay away from this one: engineers at Rice University have turned dead spiders into “necrobotic” grippers.

Scientists Turn Dead Spiders Into “Necrobotic” Arachnoborgs

By Frank Landymore

A chess robot playing three games at once broke a 7-year-old boy's finger in a tournament that ended Thursday in Russia. Officials say the bot was confused.

Russian Chess Robot Breaks Child’s Finger During Tournament

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Twitter video of a four-legged robot dog with a gun strapped to its back went viral this week. Video shows the robot dog firing multiple rounds with recoil.

Hacker Mounts Submachine Gun on Robodog, Shoots Live Ammo

By Lonnie Lee Hood

As seen in two new videos, real-life Green Goblin and drone rider Hunter Kowald took a plunge while playing a round of flying drone basketball.

See a Guy Riding Huge Drone Wipe Out After Trying to Shoot a Hoop

By Victor Tangermann

Robots Now Delivering VR Porn Headsets to the Terminally Lonely

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The state of New York has purchased more than 800 robots nammed ElliQ to assist seniors who live alone by setting reminders, answering questions and more.

New York State Buys Robots for Lonely Elders

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A drone crashed into an oil refinery in Russia on Wednesday, creating a huge explosion with no casualties. Outlets say the drone could be Ukranian.

Drone Crashes Into Russian Oil Refinery, Explodes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Amazon publicly announced last week that it would launch drone-delivery Prime Air in Lockeford, California — news to many of the rural town's residents.

Local Residents Threaten to Shoot Amazon Drones Out of the Sky

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new video shared by Estonian robotics and autonomous systems developer Milrem Robotics shows an autonomous tank blowing up cars and other targets.

Alarming Footage Shows Robot Battle Tank Blowing Up Cars

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the University of Tokyo have created a fleshy and "slightly sweaty" robotic finger that is covered in a pink layer of living skin.

Scientists Create Robot “Finger” With Living Skin That Looks Like, Um

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese scientists are reported to have developed a fully-automated, pig-cloning robot, and the AI-powered bot is apparently way more efficient than humans.

China Now Producing Cloned Pigs Using Only Robots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The nation's leading stungun maker is pulling plans to put Taser drones in schools, but that wasn't enough for most its ethics board, which has resigned.

Most of Company’s Ethics Board Resigns in Disgust Over Taser-Wielding Drones

By Noor Al-Sibai

The leading stun gun manufacturer's plan to put Taser drones in schools is so bad, the company's own ethics watchdog shot it down.

Drama Engulfs Plan to Zap School Shooters With Taser-Toting Drones

By Noor Al-Sibai

Wow! Elon Musk Says Tesla’s Person in a Robot Costume Will Become a Real Robot at Some Point in the Future

Wow! Elon Musk Says Tesla’s Person in a Robot Costume Will Become a Real Robot at Some Point in the Future

By Victor Tangermann

Two robotic buoys will relay location info on North Atlantic right whales back to shore so mariners and the public can help save the endangered species.

Marine Scientists Deploy Whale-Monitoring Robots to Save Endangered Species

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Pentagon's t-shirt saying not to worry about their "killer robots" is raising a lot of questions answered by their t-shirt, it seems.

Pentagon: Stop Asking Questions About Our “Killer Robots,” Which Don’t Exist by the Way

By Noor Al-Sibai

Robotic vending machines are making their way to malls, airports, and grocery stores across the US, the latest in last-mile problem-solving technologies.

Cyberpunk Overload! It’s the Summer of the Robot Vending Machine

By Victor Tangermann

Walmart announced an expansion to its drone delivery program that will offer $3.99 deliver fees on shipments of 10 pounds or less.

Walmart Announces Drone Deliveries to 4 Million Households

By Lonnie Lee Hood

British history professor Matthew McCormack made a rather strange discovery during his morning bike ride: a delivery robot seemingly lost in the woods.

Sad Delivery Robot Gets Lost In The Woods

By Victor Tangermann

A Japanese company is taking service robotics to a whole new level with their humanoid power line-fixing robot.

Japanese Railroad Builds Giant Gundam-Style Robot to Fix Power Lines

By Noor Al-Sibai

During a lengthy and freewheeling conversation with TED's Chris Anderson last week, Musk said that 'catgirls" are "probably inevitable."

Elon Musk Says He Could Make “Catgirl” Sex Robots If He Wanted To

By Victor Tangermann

Ever wanted to meet your robot doppelgänger? For an unspecified large sum of money, you can have one made — if you dare.

YouTuber Meets His Creepy Robot Double and Freaks Out

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists from MIT built a robot that can help dress a human. Future mobility aid applications are included in their study publishing this month.

MIT Trained a Robot to Dress You Like a Cartoon Mad Scientist

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A robot dog in Shanghai, China, is roaming the streets barking COVID-19 safety instructions through a loudspeaker crudely strapped to its back.

China Straps Loudspeakers to Robot Dog So It Can Scream at People to Stay Home

By Victor Tangermann