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In a viral social media video, the FDNY's new Spot robodog is seen being deployed into a search-and-rescue zone — only to simply fall over.

$75,000 FDNY Robodog Goes to Work, Falls Over Almost Immediately

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has decided to unleash Digidog, a dystopian robodog, into the hands of the NYPD, despite mass public outrage.

The NYPD Is Bringing Back Its Widely Hated Robodog

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A drone captured an incredibly rare — and anxiety-inducing — sight: a pod of 30 killer Orca whales hunting two full-grown gray whales in a five-hour battle.

Drone Video Captures Furious Battle Between Orcas and Gray Whales

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel has come up with tiny micro-robots that can distinguish between healthy and dying cells.

Scientists Build Tiny Robots That Can Inspect, Manipulate Your Cells

By Victor Tangermann

New Yorkers aren't exactly known for being nice, which was why it was so shocking that only a few were rude to some trash robots in Greenwich Village.

Researchers Pleasantly Surprised That Only One New Yorker Attacked Their Cute Trash-Collecting Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

This New Delivery Drone Could Be Our Adorable, Awesome Future

This New Delivery Drone Could Be Our Adorable, Awesome Future

By Foster Kamer

Study: Cute (and Non Human-Looking) Robots Will Subdue the Humans

Study: Cute (and Non Human-Looking) Robots Will Subdue the Humans

By Frank Landymore

MIT students have dreamed up a lunar colony-building robot that's part spider and part worm — and looks 100% creepy as heck.

MIT Students Built a Terrifying Mix-and-Match Spider Robot to Build Lunar Colonies

By Noor Al-Sibai

A startup co-founded by a SpaceX alum plans to jumpstart the future of space manufacturing with its orbital pharmaceutical lab run by robots.

Startup Wants to Use Robots to Make Drugs in Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

Video Shows Russian Jet Showering US Drone With Fuel Before Colliding With It

Video Shows Russian Jet Showering US Drone With Fuel Before Colliding With It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Strangely enough, Hinduism is the latest venue for robots and automation — and lots of worshippers, and religious experts, are freaked out by it.

Experts Worried Ritual Robots May Worship Gods Better Than Humans

By Noor Al-Sibai

The brain geniuses at Chuck E. Cheese still use floppy disks to control their animatronic rodent robots — and they wouldn't have it any other way.

Chuck E. Cheese Is Weirdly Defensive About Its Floppy Disk-Powered Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

To the credit of both Coperni and Boston Dynamics, we can't stop thinking about the viral robodogs-on-the-runway stunt. But only because it sucked.

Robodog Peeling Off a Model’s Clothes Is a Viral Riff on Ominous Tech

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Alongside billionaires, Sen. Bernie Sanders also wants us to tax the robots — and honestly, it's not the worst idea he's ever had.

Bernie Sanders Wants To Tax the Robots That Replace Human Workers

By Noor Al-Sibai

CNET was treating its human journalists like robots long before turning to AI-generated content. I would know -- I worked there.

CNET Was Treating Staff Like Robots Long Before Publishing AI-Generated Articles

By Sarah Szczypinski

World military leaders met to establish international rules for the responsible development of AI weapons. Safe to say: the alleged rules are pretty lax.

World Leaders Debate Whether It’s Okay to Kill People With Terminator-Style Robots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Take some taxidermied bird parts and stick them on a flying machine and voilà: you have a stealthy drone that looks a lot like an actual bird.

Scientists Turn Dead Birds Into Ghoulish Drones That Can Actually Fly

By Frank Landymore

While Rihanna's Super Bowl halftime performance stole the night, a group of weird robot dogs during the pregame show left viewers pretty perturbed.

Viewers Worried Jason Derulo’s Super Bowl Robot Dogs Will Kill Them

By Noor Al-Sibai

The AI girlfriend guys are at it again — and this time, they're hoping their literal internet girlfriends can save them from the robot apocalypse.

Man “Sure” His AI Girlfriend Will Save Him When the Robots Take Over

By Noor Al-Sibai

Atlas, Boston Dynamics' bipedal, humanoid robot, is not above falling flat on its face, or on its ass, or just freezing up like an idiot.

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Hilarious Video Shows Boston Dynamics Robot Failing Horribly

By Frank Landymore

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