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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

A team of Chinese scientists have developed a concept for a Mars drone that weighs 1,100 pounds and could travel at five times the speed of sound.

Chinese Scientists Working on Mars Drone That Flies Faster Than Sound

By Tony Ho Tran

iRobot, the makers of the Roomba robot vacuum, specifically trained the new model's AI to avoid running over dop poop and smearing it everywhere.

New Roomba Boasts Dog Poop-Avoiding AI

By Dan Robitzski

Two autonomous police robots are roaming the streets of Singapore looking for signs of trouble during a brief trial period.

Singapore Deploys Multiple Robot Cops to Police Public Areas

By Dan Robitzski

Robot maker Boston Dynamics has released its latest video of its two-legged pioneer called Atlas performing some impressive parkour.

Boston Dynamics

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Humanoid Robot Do Actual Parkour

By Victor Tangermann

The Chinese tech and e-commerce giant Alibaba is rolling out delivery robots to replace error-prone, smoke-break-taking human couriers.

Alibaba Says Delivery Robots Are Great Because They Don’t Smoke on the Job

By Dan Robitzski

The latest Boston Dynamics video shows the humanoid robot Atlas jumping and flipping. Here's a cut of all the times it fell or tripped.

Boston Dynamics

Here’s a Therapeutic Video of Those Boston Dynamics Robots Busting Ass

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX is sending a Japan-made robotic arm to the International Space Station that could give astronauts a (mechanical) hand.

SpaceX is Sending a Robotic Arm Assistant to the Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

As the technology behind sex dolls is rapidly advancing, legal experts are beginning to wonder how exactly they should be regulated (if at all).

Law Experts Ponder Whether Sex Robots Should Be Legal

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists developed a rudimentary active camouflage system that adjusts color in real-time and tested it on a tiny chameleon robot.

Scientists Create Chameleon Robot That Can Blend in With Its Surroundings

By Dan Robitzski

The Russian delegate to a UN conference argued that autonomous killer robots shouldn't be subject to any additional rules or regulations.

Russia: Our Killer Robots Don’t Need Any Pesky International Laws

By Dan Robitzski

Dubai conjured up a much-needed rainstorm thanks to new drones that can fly around and create clouds on command through electrical shocks.

UAE Says Rainstorms Were Caused by Its Cloud Seeding Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Cassie, a robot that looks just like a disembodied pair of legs, just successfully ran an impressive 5K on outdoor terrain.

Robot Runs 5K Foot Race, Trips and Falls Repeatedly

By Dan Robitzski

Warehouse robots in London started a fire and disrupted thousands of grocery orders when they crashed into each other on the job.

Worker Robots Start Fire in Warehouse

By Dan Robitzski

50-year-old Wendell Goney from Mount Dora, Florida, shot down a police drone, the property of the local Lake County Sherriff's Office, with a rifle.

Florida Man Shoots Down Police Drone Because It Was “Harassing” Him

By Victor Tangermann

The Marines recently tested a small drone that can carry a live grenade across a battlefield, targeting and detonating precise targets.

Marines Are Testing Tiny Drones That Carry Explosive Grenades

By Dan Robitzski

A newly declassified military program shows that China developed autonomous killer submarines in the 1990s and successfully tested them over ten years ago.

China Secretly Developed Autonomous Killer Robot Submarines

By Dan Robitzski

Hunter Kowald shares what it's like to design, build, and test a hoverboard before his stunt where he flew it through Times Square.

We Talked to the Guy Who Flies Around on a Giant Drone That He Built Himself

By Dan Robitzski

Israel has deployed a military robot called the Jaguar, which is armed with a machine gun, to the border of the Gaza Strip.

Israel Sends Robots Armed with Machine Guns to Palestinian Border

By Dan Robitzski

A new video going viral on social media shows a helmeted daredevil shooting through Times Square in New York City — while flying on a hoverboard.

Video Shows Man Flying Through Times Square on Giant Drone

By Victor Tangermann