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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

Tesla released drone footage of the new Gigafactory in Berlin where CEO Elon Musk just showed off his new groove.

Watch a Drone Fly Directly Through the Tesla Assembly Line

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new robot created at the University of Tokyo is so dextrous it can peel a banana without smushing it, using two arms with two fingers each.

Incredible! This Robot Is So Dexterous That It Can Perfectly Peel a Banana Without Damaging It

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Insider reports that last summer, an experimental Amazon delivery drone crashed in Oregon and caused a large fire that consumed several acres.

An Amazon Delivery Drone Crashed and Caused a Large Fire

By Jon Christian

Days after Gulf States invited rebels from Yemen called the Houthi to sit down for peace talks, the group bombed gas stations with drones and UAVs.

Gas Stations in Yemen Attacked With Drones

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Move over, Clifford — there's a new big dog in town, and this one's semi-autonomous.

New York is Deploying Robot Dogs to Fight Fires Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of expert Ukrainian drone pilots called the Aerorozvidka are holding off advancing Russian troops by striking when the invading force sleeps.

Elite Ukrainian Drone Pilots Are Reportedly Making All the Difference

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Kawasaki unveiled a new rideable, robotic goat last week at the International Robot Exhibition that they say can be used to carry cargo for businesses.

Watch: Kawasaki’s New Deeply Weird, Chaotic Robotic Goat

By Tony Ho Tran

Chipotle has partnered with Miso Robotics to create an AI-powered robot that will make chips for its restaurants instead of humans.

Chipotle Unveils Robot Designed to Make Mediocre Food Just Like Humans

By Tony Ho Tran

Pictures being shared online show what appear to be exploded, Russian-made "suicide drones" that can use AI to identify their unsuspecting targets.

Russia May Have Used Terrifying AI-Powered “Suicide Drones” in Ukraine

By Victor Tangermann

The MIT engineers behind the robot mini cheetah released a video showcasing its new running and terrain-traversing skills on Thursday.

MIT’s Robot Cheetah Looks Hilariously Awkward Teaching Itself to Run

By Tony Ho Tran

The wreck of Endurance, the famed historic ship that sank in the Antarctic during an expedition by explorer Ernest Shackleton 106 years ago, has been found.

Scientists Just Found One of the World’s Most Elusive Shipwrecks Using an Undersea Drone

By Tony Ho Tran

Meta aired a rather bizarre Super Bowl ad for its Quest 2 virtual reality headset, in which it compared its customers to a thrown away animatronic.

In Bizarre Super Bowl Ad, Facebook Imagines Its Users as Robot Dogs Stuffed into Trash Compactor

By Victor Tangermann

The Department of Homeland Security is deploying robodogs to patrol the country’s southern border and report any immigrants attempting to cross.

Company That Put Rifle on Robodog Deploying Anti-Immigrant Bots to Mexico Border

By Tony Ho Tran

The United Arab Emirates has announced a total ban on flying consumer drones anywhere within the country after last week's deadly attacks in Abu Dhabi.

UAE Bans Drones After Drone Used in Attack on Oil Facility

By Victor Tangermann

China claims to have built the "world's largest quadruped bionic robot," a gigantic "mechanical yak" that can carry over 350 pounds at a shambling 6.2 mph.

China Builds Giant Walking Military Robot

By Victor Tangermann

A pizza-making robot startup experienced a bit of a cheesy mishap: a prototype of the machine sprayed cheese everywhere across the street from SpaceX HQ.

Guy Quits SpaceX, Creates Pizza Making Robot That “Dumped Melted Cheese Everywhere”

By Victor Tangermann

Just over a month after an MIT professor warned of "slaughterbots" being used by civilians, Vice is now reporting that cartels are using them to drop bombs.

Video Appears to Show Drug Cartel Using Drone to Bomb Enemies

By Victor Tangermann

The US Department of Defense has helped develop technology that allows a single person to control 130 drones for military operations.

New Military Tech Lets One Person Fly Swarm of 130 Drones

By Tony Ho Tran

A drone carrying a defibrillator saved a 71-year-old Swedish man's life after he suffered a heart attack while shoveling snow in December.

Defibrillator Drone Swoops In and Saves Man Having Heart Attack

By Tony Ho Tran

UK-based robotics company Engineered Arts made a big splash with a teaser video of its expressive humanoid robot. Now, it's back for an interview.

That Robot With the Super Creepy Facial Expressions Is Back, and Yikes

By Victor Tangermann

Police in Israel may soon have autonomous drones that fly to locations where gunshots are detected, but Denver police can't prove the tech even works.

New Tech Will Send Police Drones to Sites Where Guns Went Off

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have created a jetpack-wearing humanoid robot — that also has a creepy, doll face.

Scientists Built a Robot With Jetpacks and a Creepy, Doll-Like Face

By Victor Tangermann

People Disturbed by Robot With Ultra-Realistic Human Face Expressions

People Disturbed by Robot With Ultra-Realistic Human Face Expressions

By Victor Tangermann

UK-based robotics company Engineered Arts has shown off an impressive new humanoid robot that can put on some eerily realistic facial expressions.

New Video Shows Robot With Terrifyingly Realistic Facial Expressions

By Victor Tangermann

Imagine sitting down at your favorite breakfast restaurant only to be greeted by a robot, not a human.

People Furious at Robot Serving Pancakes at Denny’s

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In response to the so-called "labor shortage," companies are looking to finally replace replace workers with machines.

Robotics CEO Says Goal Is to “Remove” Human Labor From Economy

By Noor Al-Sibai

FCC commissioner Brendan Carr went on a Twitter rant this week about robodogs, citing apocalyptic science fiction movies and television

FCC Commissioner Says He’s Afraid of Robodogs and We Can’t Tell If He’s Joking

By Jon Christian

In a new viral video captioned "this man is living in 2030," a person can be seen zipping along a public road, riding on top of a high-powered drone.

Man Sighted Flying Through City on Giant Drone

By Victor Tangermann

Miso Robotics is moving on to the next step of its world robotics domination plan with the Flippy Wings, dubbed "Wingy," which can deep fry wings.

Buffalo Wild Wings Is Allowing Robots to Take Over the Deep Fryer

By Victor Tangermann

MIT engineers installed a new system in the robot, dubbed the "mini cheetah," that allows it to jump across gaps in the terrain.

Oh Great, MIT Has Taught Its Robotic Cheetah to Leap

By Tony Ho Tran

Sergio’s Restaurant, a restaurant chain in Florida, began using a Servi robot that uses cameras and laser sensors to bring food to the customers’ tables.

A Florida Restaurant Got a Robot Waiter and Tips Spiked

By Tony Ho Tran

Former US general Stanley McChrystal warns that AI with the power to launch lethal strikes is inevitable, even if the idea is frightening.

Former General Warns About Rise of Killer Robots

By Dan Robitzski

Experts say installing a gun on a robodog marks an inflection point in the development of killer robots — and maybe the tech shouldn't be allowed at all.

Experts Shocked by Military Robodog With Sniper Rifle Attachment

By Jon Christian

The inevitable has happened. Somebody strapped an honest-to-God sniper to the back of a quadrupedal robot dog.

Uh Oh, They Strapped a Sniper Rifle to a Robot Dog

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Caltech have opened the doors to hell and allowed a creepy robot that can walk on two spindly feet and fly, to enter.

This Scary-Looking Robot Can Walk and Fly

By Victor Tangermann

Singapore has rolled out robot cops meant to catch residents in the act of not following social distancing guidelines — and Singaporeans are fed up.

People in Singapore Furious About Robot Cops That Lecture People on Social Distancing

By Victor Tangermann

Drones literally started raining from the sky during a light show in Zhengzhou, a city of 10 million people in the Chinese province of Henan.

Light Show Goes Wrong When Drones Start Plummeting Out of the Sky

By Victor Tangermann

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released dramatic footage from inside a hurricane recorded by a "Saildrone."

Check Out This Awesome Drone Footage From Inside a Hurricane

By Victor Tangermann

According to documents and video meeting recordings obtained by Vice, engineers aren't exactly thrilled by the $999 robot they came up with for Amazon.

Creators of Amazon’s New Robot Secretly Admitted It’s “Terrible”

By Victor Tangermann

A raven in Canberra, Australia, decided it had enough of a local business sending coffee to a customer in the area via a Google delivery drone.

Watch a Raven Attack a Google Coffee Delivery Drone

By Victor Tangermann

Boston Dynamics Deploys Robot Guard Dog at Factory

Boston Dynamics

Boston Dynamics Deploys Robot Guard Dog at Factory

By Tony Ho Tran

An Israeli company has unveiled a remote-controlled, semi-autonomous robot that can be outfitted with two machine guns, cameras, and sensors.

Israel Shows Off Massive Military Robot With a Huge Machine Gun

By Victor Tangermann