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Clever engineers at a Chinese video company built a tiny, swiveling robot that can shoot pieces of gum right into your mouth.

Hackers Build Robot That Launches Gum Directly Into Your Mouth

By Victor Tangermann

Protoclone is supposedly the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android. But it's mostly just got people creeped out.

This Muscle-Powered Robot Might Be the Creepiest Thing We’ve Ever Seen

By Frank Landymore

In the race to build the best humanoid robots, China is literally ahead of the pack as it prepares for the world's first human-robot race.

China Is Hosting The World’s First Foot Race Between Humans and Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

Companies are equipping robotic vaccums with arms that can pick up after lazy people. Should we really be making them angry?

Manufacturers Giving Robot Vacuums Arms, to Better Attack Humans During the Machine Uprising

By Victor Tangermann

The internet is flooded with videos of robot dogs meeting real, furry puppies, who seem horrified to have come across a canine abomination.

Real Dogs’ Reaction to Robodogs is Terrifying

By Ashley Bardhan

Amazon uses over 750,000 robots that are impressive in some respects, but also struggle to perform simple tasks that a human could easily do.

Amazon Robots Struggling to Keep Up With Human Workers

By Frank Landymore

Japanese inventor Hiroshi Ishiguro has created six robot clones of himself. The latest one can take questions and give lectures.

Inventor Builds Six Robot Copies of Himself, Uses One to Give Speeches and Take Questions From Audience

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla dazzled with its humanoid Optimus robots at its recent event. But it appears that their speech is really the work of a remote human.

Tesla Shows Off Talking Robot That Sounds an Awful Lot Like a Guy Speaking Into a Microphone

By Frank Landymore

Google's DeepMind has shown off an AI-powered robot that can beat the average Joe player at a game of table tennis.

Google Shows Off Robot That It Says Plays Ping Pong as Well as a Human

By Victor Tangermann

Despite being out for less than a year, Amazon has announced that its Astro for Business patrol robots will be bricked at the end of August.

After Just Ten Months, Amazon Says Its “Security Guard” Robot Will Become a Useless Brick

By Noor Al-Sibai

A South Korean administrative robot took a tumble down a set of stairs, leading to local reports of the first robot suicide in the country.

Government Robot Falls Down Stairs, Dies

By Victor Tangermann

The robot, named Sophia, gave painfully generic answers and even plugged the AI industry. Many students felt "disrespected" by the decision.

Artificial Intelligence

Students Show Up to Graduation, Find Commencement Speaker Is an AI Robot

By Frank Landymore

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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

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

A Spanish startup has built a sperm-injecting robot that can be controlled using a PlayStation controller.

Health & Medicine

First Babies Born After Being Conceived By Robot

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

In a new interview, Daft Punk co-founder Thomas Bangalter admitted that concerns about artificial intelligence led to the timing of the band's breakup.

Artificial Intelligence

Daft Punk Says They Broke Up Partially Over Fear of AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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

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

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

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.

Boston Dynamics

Hilarious Video Shows Boston Dynamics Robot Failing Horribly

By Frank Landymore

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

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.

Artificial Intelligence

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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

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

A storm tech startup sent one of its robots into the devastating Hurricane Fiona and captured unbelievable video of its huge waves and winds.

Science & Energy

Scientists Sent a Robot Into the Ferocious Hurricane Fiona

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bad news (maybe) for nail salons everywhere: a new robot called Clockwork is in town, and claims to "liberate" people from apparent manicure hell.

Artificial Intelligence

New Manicure Robot Spells Potential Doom for Nail Salons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Panera Bread fast casual chain has announced that it plans to test out AI at its drive-thru's, bringing us that much closer to the uncanny valley.

Artificial Intelligence

Panera Bread Is Replacing Humans With AI At Drive-Thru Windows

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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

The ultimate hands-free dental care: a swarm of shapeshifting microrobots, able to treat and remove tooth decay-inducing bacteria and plaque.

Health & Medicine

Lazy Flossers Rejoice! Tiny Robot Shapeshifters Will Brush and Floss for You

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In an ominous new experiment, a robot powered by a popular machine learning AI model immediately started to display racist and sexist behavior.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Alarmed When Robot Immediately Becomes Racist and Sexist

By Frank Landymore

If you've ever eyed at a Moon rover and thought, "that thing should look like a four-legged humanoid spider crab," you're in luck.

Why Does This New Moon Rover Look Vaguely Terrifying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Scientists have created a bizarre magnetic slime that can be remotely controlled via a magnetic field, New Scientist reports.

Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Create Robot to Put Inside Your Body That Looks Like, Um

By Victor Tangermann

In spite of CEO Elon Musk claiming that Tesla may begin selling its Optimus humanoid robots next year, that timeline nearly impossible.

Artificial Intelligence

Sorry, But There’s No Way Tesla Is Selling a Humanoid Robot Next Year

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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

A robot bartender named Cecilia is Miami's hottest new mixologist.

AI Bartender Slams Out 120 Drinks Per Hour While Cracking Stupid Jokes

By Noor Al-Sibai

This just in: Elon Musk is going to build the world's first sentient robots.

Elon Musk Says Tesla Robots Could Achieve AGI

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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

Onlookers spotted something rather strange being transported on the back of a pickup truck at SpaceX's "Starbase" testing facilities in South Texas.

Photo Shows Iron Man-Style Suit at SpaceX Launch Site

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

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

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