Robots are a fact of life. Soon they will kill us. We'd like to document the coming apocalypse

Cyborg Fly Pilots Robot Through An Obstacle Course

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Swiss researchers have used a fruit fly to steer a mobile robot through an obstacle course in the lab. They call it the simply the ...

Solar-Powered Robot Swarm Could Clean Up Oil

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Oil isn't pretty in price or in form, but we are stuck with it for awhile yet. However, in the future, a swarm of autonomous ...

Iran’s Surena 2 shows up on Video

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These videos show Surena 2 walking at a slow pace, standing on one leg, and even bowing. Aghil Yousefi-Koma, a professor of engineering at the ...

Singapore Researchers Unveil Social Robot Olivia

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Olivia is a new social robot from Singapore and she's a real talker, all the while gesticulating with its sleek 6-degrees-of-freedom white plastic arms, much ...

Intelligent Museum Guide Robot

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At first glance, this robot appears to be a robot that's capable of just repeating programmed information, but after just a few minutes with the ...

Researchers Prepare For Robot Drilling In The Great Pyramid

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In 1992 to 2002, shafts underneath the Great Pyramid of Giza were discovered and explored. The robot that was sent down and under only came ...

The Army’s New Tentacle Robot

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It may not be a Dr. Octopus exoskeleton, but this bot does have 3 tentacle like arms. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has taken a ...

Flobi Robot Head Changes From Male To Female

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Researchers at Bielelfeld University in Germany have created the Flobi. This Flobi won't cut your hair, but it does have a personailty disorder of sorts ...

Using Nexi Robot To Understand Human Trust

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A study underway, brought to us by psychologists, economists, and roboticists at a range of institutions, including Northeastern, MIT, and Cornell, acknowledges that there are ...

Lizard Bot Swims Through Sand

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Robots are getting all kinds of new locomotion methods. The latest of these is a good way to rescue humans in a disaster. A team ...

Wire-Crawling Robots Inspecting Power Lines

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Robots like the one above could start crawling along thousands of miles of power lines in North America very soon. The robots would check for ...

M3-Kindy and Noby

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Robots who look like they are starring in Children of Chucky tend to give us nightmares. Meet M3-Kindy and Noby, a pair of bots recently ...